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Use Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

Where the Sidewalk Ends...a wild world of entertaining characters and tall tales begins. In this classic collection of Shel Silverstein poems and drawings, readers will meet a crocodile with a toothache, an invisible boy, and Peggy Ann McKay, who has 39 excuses for why you can't go to school today. Use this text to teach fun lessons on making connections, visualizing, and making inferences.
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Making Connections with Where the Sidewalk Ends

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Making Connections with Where the Sidewalk Ends

Where the Sidewalk Ends is a fun book for supporting readers who need practice making connections. Students can enhance their comprehension of each poem by identifying characters, settings and events they can connect to based on personal experience or prior knowledge.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RL.3.1RL.3.3RL.3.10RF.3.3RF.3.4SL.3.1dSL.3.2SL.3.3W.3.8L.3.6
TEKS Alignment
  • 3.1C3.7F3.1D3.7G3.1E3.8C3.6A3.13C3.6E3.13E3.6I3.13H3.7A3.7B3.7C3.7D3.1A3.7E
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Making Inferences with Where the Sidewalk Ends

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This is an ideal book for introducing readers to the making inferences comprehension strategy. As you work through each poem, readers will practice making inferences about character emotions, overall author messages, and cause and effect.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RL.3.4RL.3.7RF.3.3RF.3.4SL.3.1dSL.3.2SL.3.3W.3.8L.3.6RL.3.1
TEKS Alignment
  • 3.1D3.7F3.1E3.7G3.6A3.8C3.6B3.13C3.6F3.13E3.6I3.13H3.7A3.7B3.7C3.1A3.7D3.1C3.7E
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Visualizing with Where the Sidewalk Ends

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Visualizing with Where the Sidewalk Ends

Shel Silverstein's famously descriptive prose will support readers who are practicing creating vivid mental images while reading poetry.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RL.3.10RF.3.3RF.3.4SL.3.1dSL.3.2SL.3.3W.3.8L.3.6RL.3.7
TEKS Alignment
  • 3.1E3.13C3.6A3.13E3.6D3.13H3.6E3.6I3.7A3.7B3.7C3.1A3.7E3.1C3.7F3.1D3.10C
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Vocabulary Connections with Where the Sidewalk Ends

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Vocabulary Connections with Where the Sidewalk Ends

This set of vocabulary development resources for Where the Sidewalk Ends 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.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • L.3.4aL.3.5bL.3.6
TEKS Alignment
  • 3.7E3.7F3.3A3.3B
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Running Record with Where the Sidewalk Ends

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Running Record with Where the Sidewalk Ends

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Where the Sidewalk Ends. 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.

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Writing with Where the Sidewalk Ends

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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.
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Making Connections with Where the Sidewalk Ends (Spanish)

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Making Inferences with Where the Sidewalk Ends (Spanish)

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Visualizing with Where the Sidewalk Ends (Spanish)

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Writing with Where the Sidewalk Ends (Spanish)

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Title: Where the Sidewalk Ends
Author: Shel Silverstein
Genre: Poetry
Themes: Laugh Out Loud
ISBN: 9780060256678
Publisher's Summary:
You'll meet a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where shoes fly, sisters are auctioned off, and crocodiles go to the dentist.
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