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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Amelia Bedelia

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Use Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

The hilarious story of Amelia Bedelia, the lovable maid who is easily confused, has entertained readers for decades. Share this classic story with your students and use it as a springboard for instruction focused on the importance of asking questions, making connections, making predictions, retelling and summarizing, and visualizing to deepen comprehension while reading. Additionally, this collection of teaching resources includes a lesson plan focused on exploring words with double consonants along with vocabulary development resources and two assessments.

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Asking Questions with Amelia Bedelia

Amelia Bedelia is a fabulous anchor text for a minilesson focused on asking questions. This set of teaching resources includes page-specific prompts designed to help readers explore the reason why Amelia behaves the way she does and ask questions about the consequences of her actions.

Common Core State Standards Alignment

RF.2.3RF.2.4SL.2.1bSL.2.1cSL.2.2SL.2.3W.2.8L.2.6RL.2.1RL.2.10

TEKS Alignment

2.6A2.13C2.6B2.13E2.6E2.13G2.6I2.7B2.7C2.7D2.7E2.1A2.7F2.1C2.8C2.1D2.13A

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Making Connections with Amelia Bedelia

Use this set of teaching resources to turn a silly read-aloud into a time to teach your students how to make meaningful connections to the text. While they laugh at Amelia Bedelia and her antics, your students will also learn to make text-to-self connections based on their own silly mistakes.

Common Core State Standards Alignment

SL.2.1bSL.2.2SL.2.3W.2.8L.2.6RL.2.2RL.2.10RF.2.3RF.2.4

TEKS Alignment

2.7A2.7B2.7C2.7D2.7E2.1A2.7F2.1C2.8C2.1D2.13C2.6A2.13E2.6E2.13G2.6I

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Making Predictions with Amelia Bedelia

This lesson plan and set of teaching resources take advantage of Amelia Bedelia's predictable pattern of mistakes throughout the story. By following the minilesson you'll give early readers plenty of practice making predictions about the cause and effect pattern of Amelia's actions. Students will also learn to make logical predictions and check whether or not their predictions were correct.

Common Core State Standards Alignment

W.2.8L.2.6RL.2.1RL.2.3RL.2.10RF.2.3RF.2.4SL.2.1bSL.2.2SL.2.3

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2.7B2.7C2.1A2.7D2.1C2.7E2.1D2.7F2.6A2.8C2.6B2.13C2.6C2.13E2.6E2.13G2.6I2.7A

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Retelling & Summarizing with Amelia Bedelia

The limited cast of characters and a very clear order of events in Amelia Bedelia make it easy to use the book to model how readers retell and summarize. Use this lesson plan to guide readers as they name the characters in the story, identify key details about the characters, list Amelia Bedelia's chores, and more. The included reader's notebook prompt gives students additional practice retelling the events of Amelia Bedelia's day and summarizing what she did and did not do correctly.

Common Core State Standards Alignment

SL.2.3W.2.8RL.2.2L.2.6RL.2.3RL.2.5RL.2.7RL.2.10RF.2.3RF.2.4SL.2.1bSL.2.2

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2.7C2.7D2.7E2.1A2.7F2.1C2.8A2.1D2.8C2.6A2.8D2.6G2.9C2.6I2.13C2.7A2.13E2.7B2.13G

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Visualizing with Amelia Bedelia

Peggy Parish's vivid descriptions of Amelia Bedelia's mishaps are particularly useful for teaching students to visualize. The page-specific questions included in this resource set guide readers to identify words that can be used to create mental images while reading and the student practice pages provide additional support for readers who are learning to visualize.

Common Core State Standards Alignment

W.2.8L.2.6RL.2.7RL.2.10RF.2.3RF.2.4SL.2.1bSL.2.2SL.2.3

TEKS Alignment

2.7C2.7D2.1A2.7E2.1C2.7F2.1D2.8C2.6A2.9C2.6D2.10C2.6E2.13C2.6I2.13E2.7A2.13G2.7B

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Comprehension Assessment with Amelia Bedelia

Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of Amelia Bedelia.

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Running Record with Amelia Bedelia

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Amelia Bedelia. 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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Cause and Effect Matching with Amelia Bedelia

Read Amelia Bedelia 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 Amelia Bedelia. 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.

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Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with Amelia Bedelia

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of Amelia Bedelia 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.

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Writing with Amelia Bedelia

In the book Amelia Bedelia, Amelia makes a lot of mistakes. With this worksheet, students can draw upon their own experiences and write a friendly letter to Amelia Bedelia. Students can tell her about the mistakes they've made while doing chores, give her some advice, and offer suggestions to help her better understand her instructions.

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Asking Questions with Amelia Bedelia (Spanish)

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Making Connections with Amelia Bedelia (Spanish)

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Making Predictions with Amelia Bedelia (Spanish)

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Retelling & Summarizing with Amelia Bedelia (Spanish)

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Visualizing with Amelia Bedelia (Spanish)

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About the Book

Title: Amelia Bedelia

Author: Peggy Parish

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Themes: Perseverance, Decision Making, Self Awareness, Laugh Out Loud

ISBN: 9780694012961

Publisher's Summary:

From dressing the chicken to drawing the drapes, Amelia Bedelia merrily does exactly what Mr. and Mrs. Rogers tell her to do. But even when things get a bit mixed up in the process, Amelia Bedelia always finds a way to make everything turn out perfectly in the end. Peggy Parish's beloved classic is a Level Two I Can Read book, geared for kids who read on their own but still need a little help. Through Amelia Bedelia's hilarious adventures, kids learn the difference between literal and nonliteral language and begin to grasp wordplay. Whether shared at home or in a classroom, the engaging stories, longer sentences, and language play of Level Two books are proven to help kids take their next steps toward reading success.

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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Amelia Bedelia