Celebrate Mother's Day and explore the power of memory, love, and family bonds with this engaging resource set for The Memory String by Eve Bunting.

This heartwarming story is perfect for honoring the mothers and mother figures in your students' lives. Use The Memory String to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

Whether you're using it during whole group lessons, small group instruction, or literacy centers, this flexible bundle brings The Memory String to life in your classroom with engaging, standards-aligned resources tailored for Mother’s Day.

HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL GET:

Comprehension Strategy Resources

There are five comprehension strategy lesson plans and resource sets included in this bundle. Each set includes a lesson plan with text-specific questions, guided practice worksheets, strategy graphic organizers, and a text-specific reader's notebook prompt with optional "I Can" statements.

You will get resource sets to teach the following comprehension strategies:

• Identifying the Author’s Purpose
• Making Inferences
• Making Predictions
• Retelling and Summarizing
• Visualizing

Vocabulary Development Resources

The vocabulary resources included in this bundle focus on words that are important for readers to know and understand in order to comprehend The Memory String.

The vocabulary resources include the following:

• Vocabulary Word List
• Flash Cards (match words to pictures and match words to definitions)
• Interactive Vocabulary Notebook Cards
• Vocabulary Word Games Printable
• Personal Vocabulary Word Bookmark

Word Study Resources

I've also included a word study lesson plan and set of activities, because, much like vocabulary, I find that word study works best within context. As a result, I have identified word patterns within trade books and have developed lesson plans and resources based on the word study that can be done with specific books.

The lesson plan and set of resources for The Memory String is focused on Hyphenated Compound Words and includes the following:

• Lesson Plan
• Interactive Activity
• Practice Page
• Independent Word Work

This set of resources also includes the following:

• Running Record Assessment
• Common Core Aligned Comprehension Assessment
• Extension Activity
• Answer Keys
• Common Core State Standard Alignment
• TEKS Alignment
• Spanish versions of the comprehension strategy practice pages, reader's notebook prompts (complete with Spanish "I Can" statements), and extension activities for use with The Memory String

Surprise Sample Resource

In addition to the complete set of balanced literacy resources for The Memory String, you'll also get a surprise resource to pair with another popular children's book!

I hope that you will enjoy using the BookPagez resources for The Memory String by Eve Bunting. Please note that a copy of the book is not included in this resource set. You will need your own copy/copies of the book.

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