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The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly Comprehension & Book Study

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Award-winning author, Erin Entrada Kelly's new novel, The First State of Being has complete Newbery buzz surrounding it…and for good reason.

You will want to live your life in the "First State" after reading this amazing novel.

Sit back and enjoy the book with your students as you use my No Prep The First State of Being Comprehension Book Packet which includes chapter-by-chapter comprehension questions, writing activity, three review activities, and two assessments. It will guide your students and promote enjoyment and comprehension of this outstanding book.

Work on student comprehension, inference, character growth, vocabulary, and more, all while encouraging a love of reading through excellent, award-winning literature.

Leave the hard work to me! This novel is sure to become a favorite of yours and your students.

My The First State of Being Comprehension Book Packet works well with whole class instruction, small groups, literature circles, independent work, or Homeschool students!

Covers the following Reading standards:
· Knowledge level understanding including fact recall
· Explain and describe.
· Identify key plot points.
· Provide text evidence to support.
· Analyze
· Inference
· Summarizing
· Prediction
· Character Development

Format
PDF
✓ Thorough & scaffolded comprehension questions from each chapter
✓ Mid-Book Quiz & End-of-Book Assessment
✓ Comprehensive Answer Keys for all questions and assessments
✓ Writing Activity
✓ Review activities: Connections, Word Search and Crossword Puzzle
✓ My Reading Philosophy and Content Warnings, Book Packet instructions and teaching suggestions
✓ Clickable Table of Contents
✓ Question Sets (includes all chapters divided into easy-to-teach groupings)
✓ Mid-Book Quiz and End-of-Book Assessment
✓ Answer Keys to all question sets, quiz, and assessment and Review pages with answer keys
✓ 55 total pages and a PDF print version
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Fabulous resource

This resource is perfect for book clubs or individual students. I love the variety and the assessments. Thank you for creating this resource.

(Originally posted on TpT)

Colleen O.
August 2026
YSA with The Literature Lady
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Hi, I’m Kim!  I’m an educator with a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Elementary Education and more than 30 years of classroom experience. 

I started The Literature Lady because I wanted to make reading come alive for students—and make lesson planning a lot easier for teachers. I create resources that were way too time-consuming to create while teaching full-time, so that now you don’t have to! My passion is creating engaging, low-prep resources, such as novel studies, Word Noodle vocabulary games, and reader’s theatre scripts, that help kids fall in love with books while building real skills. 

When I’m not writing or designing new lessons, you’ll find me teaching right here on the TeacherStore.io community platform! The Young Scholar Academy is an online small group learning community that teaches homeschool students in grades 1-8. We teach core classes, electives, one-on-one tutoring, and so much more! As Tiffany would say, "Come for the classes, stay for the community!" 

I am also a fun of reading, baking, traveling, or hanging out with my husband, our two college-aged sons, and our dogs, Maisie and Sophie.

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