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...

We read the How The Grinch Stole Christmas to work on several reading skills. The students first retold the story to a partner and then indi...

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...

In addition to reading The Mixed Up Chameleon, we also read The Grouchy Ladybug. The students created three-flap foldables for this book as ...

As a part of an author study over Eric Carle, we read The Mixed Up Chameleon. The students created a three-flap foldable to record the begin...

After reading How the Grinch Stole Christmas, the students worked independently to chart the characters, setting, problem, and solution from...

We read It's Christmas, David! so the students could practice identifying the story elements: character, setting, problem, and solution...

After reading Toy Many Toys and A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon, we discussed how the books were the same and different. We charted...

As a part of our author study on David Shannon, we read A Bad Case of Stripes . After reading, we created a class chart to write down our di...

As a part of our author study on David Shannon, we read Too Many Toys . After reading and discussing as a class, the students created a Stor...

As a part of our study on author and illustrator Eric Carle, we read The Foolish Tortoise . As we read, we discussed and charted the charact...

As a part of our author study on Eric Carle, we read The Mixed-Up Chameleon . After reading, we discussed the characters, setting, problem, ...

On Wednesday and Thursday we read Merry Christmas, Strega Nona. As we read, the students identified and discussed how the various character...

On Tuesday we read Too Many Tamales by Gary Soto to discuss character traits and to identify the elements of a story. First we watched the ...