Take a journey with a very tiny, very hungry caterpillar as he transforms into a beautiful butterfly. Readers will become familiar with this well-known story and learn about a tiny life cycle through this instructional guide for literature. Through rigorous but engaging activities and lessons students will learn how to explore and analyze rich, complex literature. These activities and lessons are correlated to the Common Core State Standards and are guaranteed to encourage early learners to analyze story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and much more.