Leo Lionni is a wonderful children's author for second and third graders, and it's great to have grab and go materials. This bundle includes before/during/after activities for each of the titles below to make an author study easy to implement.

TITLES INCLUDED:

Frederick

Swimmy

Fish is Fish

A Color of His Own

Inch by Inch

A Busy Year, and

Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse

(7 book units and about 118 pages).

The units are set up in a before/during/after format for the books. It is intended to be used with guided reading groups, but also works well with partners, mentor text lessons, or literature circles.

SKILLS ADDRESSED IN THIS BUNDLE:

Swimmy

Prereading activities to build schema and background

Vocabulary

Making Predictions

Making Connections

Sequencing

Character Traits

Summarizing

Questioning

Visualizing

Response to Reading

Alexander and the Wind-up Mouse

I Know, I See, I Wonder (prereading)

Alphaboxes

Vocabulary page and word cards for modeling

Story Elements Anchor Chart

Story Elements Organizer

Concept Sort

Questioning Page

Character Analysis

Making Inferences Anchor Chart

My Inference (favorite scene)

Comparing Leo Lionni’s Books

Writing in Response to Reading

Class Book Cover

Writing page for Alexander’s New Friend

What’s Close to Alexander’s Heart

Fish is Fish

Prereading-Comparing Fish and Frogs

Vocabulary

Making Predicting

Sequencing

Questioning

Making Comparisons

Cause and Effect-cut/paste events t chart

Summarizing, and

Responding to Reading Writing Prompts

Frederick

Prereading-All about Mice

Vocabulary Foldable

Making Connections

Author's Purpose, Point of View, and Genres

Character Traits-finding text evidence

Sequencing Events Flow Chart

Summarizing after reading

Writing promps in Response to Reading

A Color of His Own

Schema building (Give one, Get on about Showing Your Colors)

Vocabulary

Point of View (2 pages)

Character traits

Making connections

Cause/effect

Visualizing

Sequencing

Questioning task cards and recording form for Scoot

Writing in response to the reading

A Busy Year

schema building about trees (alphaboxes)

tier 2 vocabulary introduction and practice

sequencing (anchor chart and project) -2 pages

story elements

questioning page

character traits

making connections

visualizing

research report about trees

and writing in response to reading (____ loves the planet)

Inch by Inch

Schema building (Give one, Get on about Showing Your Colors)

Vocabulary

Making comparisons

Beginning, middle, end

Writing prompt about favorite part

Writing prompt about measuring