After reading A Bad Case of Stripes and Too Many Toys by David Shannon, the students created Venn Diagrams to compare the stories. After cre...

While reading David Shannon books, we also learned about him as an author and illustrator. We watched a short interview with him from Schola...

As a part of our David Shannon author study, we read Too Many Toys. The students retold the beginning, middle, and end. They also completed ...

To learn about the elements and features of fiction story, we read various David Shannon books. One of the books we read was A Bad Case of S...

As a part of our lessons on fiction story elements and our author study of Eric Carle, we compared the stories The Mixed-Up Chameleon and Th...

The students read The Mixed-Up Chameleon by Eric Carle as a part of our author study and lessons on fiction story elements. After reading th...

Last week we conducted an author study of Eric Carle as a part of our unit on fiction texts and story elements. One of the books we read ...

To celebrate the 45th anniversary of The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle and the first day of spring, all of first grade headed out t...

We read Dvid Goes to School by David Shannon to practice following directions and to identify finding the parts of a book. After reading, th...

During our author study over David Shannon books, we read Pirates Don't Change Diapers. After reading the story, the students retold the...

As a part of our study over David Shannon books, we read Too Many Toys and A Bad Case of Stripes. As you can read about in previous posts, t...

After reading Too Many Toys by David Shannon, the students wrote about the main character, Spencer, on a person template. They wrote how he ...

After reading Alice the Fairy by David Shannon, the students wrote about the various character traits of the main character on a person temp...

Continuing with our study of David Shannon books, we read A Bad Case of Stripes. The students created foldables again to write the beginning...

As a part of an author study of David Shannon, we read Too Many Toys. The students created a three-flap foldable to record the beginning, mi...

As a part of our study on Eric Carle, we read The Foolish Tortoise. The students created a Story Map to record the characters, setting, prob...