Take the time to examine the ways in which Wendi Silvano entertains her readers with this mini lesson focused on identifying the author's purpose. With a page-by-page guide and sample answers, you'll easily help your students understand why it's important to think about the author's purpose while reading.

Turkey Trouble makes it easy for readers to make predictions about the events and the characters in the story. This step by step mini lessons guides readers to attend to both the pictures and the text to make logical predictions while explaining how their predictions help them be better readers.

The familiar cast of characters and easy to follow plot make Turkey Trouble an ideal text for teaching readers how to retell and summarize. Use this mini lesson to focus on the problem and solution, setting, main characters, and key events in the story.

Turkey has a big problem and an even bigger array of possible solutions. Use this synthesizing mini lesson to help students follow the ways in which Turkey's solution evolves across the story.

Wendi Silvano has expertly used all the text structures to craft Turkey's hilarious story of self-preservation. Help readers identify the ways in which the author uses description, sequencing, cause and effect, and problem and solution to tell the story of Turkey's trouble.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano as a springboard for instruction focused on onomatopoeias.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how onomatopoeias are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with words.

This set of vocabulary development resources for Turkey Trouble highlights the words that are most important for students to know and understand while reading the book. Through engaging in fun word games, matching words to definitions and pictures, and practicing how to categorize words, students will develop the vocabulary necessary to comprehend this story and many others.

Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of Turkey Trouble.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Turkey Trouble. Track meaning, structure, and visual accuracy using the first 100 words of the text to determine whether or not this book is a good fit for the readers in your classroom.

Read Turkey Trouble then have some fun matching cause and effect sentences from the book. By using these cause and effect cards, students will demonstrate both their comprehension of the text and their understanding of cause and effect relationships in hands-on and interactive way.

This resource includes matching/sorting cards and a sorting mat for four cause and effect sentences in Turkey Trouble. Each cause card is marked with a square and each effect card is marked with a circle, making it easy to support students who struggle with matching cause and effect relationships.

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of Turkey Trouble includes several examples of cause and effect relationships, making it easy to use as a springboard for modeling or independent practice.

This simple resource includes four sentence stems. Each sentence stem presents an effect. Students will use what they know about the book to fill in the cause of the effect.

The BookPagez extension activities are a great way to push student engagement beyond the pages of the text. Try using this activity with early finishers, with students who show a deeper connection with the text, or as a center activity.