Description
A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni is a sweet book about a chameleon finding his style. This Digital and PDF unit includes before, during, after activities to keep your students engaged and thinking actively.
HOW DOES THIS UNIT FOR A COLOR OF HIS OWN WORK?
The activities are comprehension focused and address several reading skills. It comes in PDF for printing and can be used digitally with EASEL. I will be adding Google Slides TM in the future to make teaching EASY and EFFECTIVE for the classroom teacher.
WHAT ACTIVITIES ARE INCLUDED IN THE COLOR OF HIS OWN UNIT?
- schema building (Give one, Get on about Showing Your Colors)
- vocabulary organizer and word cards
- point of view (2 pages)
- character traits
- making connections
- cause/effect
- visualizing
- sequencing
- BME retelling
- guided reading column notes
- questioning task cards and recording form for Scoot
- writing in response to the reading
38 pages total (21 PDF and 17 Google Slides TM)
This unit can be purchased individually, but is also included in my Leo Lionni Author Study. Other units included in the author study are:
GET THEM ALL IN THE AUTHOR STUDY:
Leo Lionni Author Study Bundle
WHAT TEACHERS HAVE HAD TO SAY ABOUT MY UNIT:
โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Deanne W. says, “Super cool tasks to enhance our Talk For Writing lessons! ”
โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Athena H. says, “These activities were wonderful additions for our close read of the book. ”
โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Beth M. says, “I have been wanting to bring in my chameleon and also include a book study. This is perfect! I can’t wait to introduce this lesson and Turbo to the class! Thank you!”
โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ LyssBliss says, “I bought this book and the stuffed animal at Kohl’s and am so glad there is a unit for it! Very creative and thorough for my 2nd graders. This will be fun to start out the school year!”
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Samuel N. –
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Beth H. –
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Teacher Nerd Anonymous –
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Loving Teaching and Learning –
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LyssBliss –
I bought this book and the stuffed animal at Kohl’s and am so glad there is a unit for it! Very creative and thorough for my 2nd graders. This will be fun to start out the school year!
Heidi F. –
This book is so wonderful – love having activities to go along with it!
Nancy C. –
Perfect for my guided reading! Thank you!
Created by Dr. Barbie –
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Melissa M. –
Great guided reading supplement
Brittney O. –
Good resource!
Robin G. –
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Tabatha Younts –
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Beth M. –
I have been wanting to bring in my chameleon and also include a book study. This is perfect! I can’t wait to introduce this lesson and Turbo to the class! Thank you!
Edward K. –
Excellent resource!
Caroline S. –
Thank so much! This is such a great product!
Kristine G. –
Great!
Kathryn B. –
Awesome and so helpful. Thanks!
Rachel S. –
Great for my speech therapy groups!
Sunshiney in Second –
Awesome resource! Thank you!!
Cassandra W. –
very useful
Rebecca Bowman –
Great file! Thanks!
Marcia Combs –
great
Kayla Fraser –
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Jean Cruickshank –
Great! Loved it!
Mis aventuras primarias –
Great product!! Students loved it.
Tiffiny S. –
Great resource for our end of year fun days.
Renee Collins –
This was a great additional resource to use while reading the book.
Kelsey R. –
This was a good resource to use throughout the book
Athena Harrison –
Perfect companion to the book!
MrsCrawfordscreations –
Great product thankful for the a quick use template.
Deanne W. –
Super cool tasks to enhance our Talk For Writing lessons!
Rachel A. –
This resource was great to help me teaching my students during whole group instruction! they loved the slides and it was very interactive!
April Oaks –
My students really enjoyed using this resource! A great addition to coincide with a required reading.
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Primary Pages & Pencils –
Great resource! Easy to use and my students loved it. Thank you!
Hannah R. –
thank you! a great resource with extra activities to go with the book