AUTHOR STUDY

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AUTHOR STUDY
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Mrs. Peckham Ms. O'Flynn
Mrs. Palmer Mr. Mandell Mrs. Gazin Mr. Almond
Mrs. Acunto Miss Larsen
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Kindergarten First Grade Second Grade Third
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Jan Brett Roald Dahl Tomie de Poala Phyllis
Reynolds Naylor Dr. Seuss E.B. White
Author List
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Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss
About the Author
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Tomie de Paola
Tomie de Paola
About the Author
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Jan Brett
Jan Brett
About the Author
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Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
About the Author
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E. B. White
E. B. White
About the Author
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Phyllis Naylor
Phyllis Naylor
About the Author
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Author List
Who is Dr. Seuss?
What we know?
What you want to learn?
What you learned?
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back
Books by Dr. Seuss
Foot Book If I Ran the Zoo Fox in Sox
McElligotts Pool Horton Hears a Who
On Beyond Zebra Cat in the Hat Ten Apples
Up On Top Daisy-Head Mayzie Thidwick Green
Eggs and Ham What Was I Scared
Of Lorax Yertle the Turtle Hop on
Pop How the Grinch Stole Christmas
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Back
Dr. Seuss was born in Massachusetts on March 2,
1904. He was named Theodor Seuss Geisel. He is
the author and illustrator of many childrens
books. His first book was And To Think I Saw It
on Mulberry Street. Dr. Seuss writes all of
his books in rhyme. This means that he uses many
words whose endings sound the same. He also
likes to make up nonsense words. These are words
that we have never heard before. Dr. Seuss
books are fun to read. You can find his books in
the Seuss section or under Giesel.
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Click to see our projects
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Show Us What You Have Learned

• Draw a picture of your favorite Dr. Seuss
  story and put it in you Author Study folder.
• Copy some rhyming words from a Dr. Seuss book
  and find their patterns.

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Who is Jan Brett?
What we know
What we want to learn
What you've learned
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JAN BRETT
Jan Brett was born in
Massachusetts on December 1, 1949. She often
read books, drew horses and played with her many
pets as a child. As an adult, Jan continues to
have many pets. She enjoys drawing them and
making them a part of her books. She also
travels extensively and uses these trip images in
her illustrations. Writing the book is much
harder for Jan to do, even though she uses
experiences from her life. Her book themes often
have to do with change. She shows much detail in
her drawings. It takes her one hour to draw an
inch of a picture. She is known for her detailed
borders that often give the reader clues as to
what will happen next. Jan Brett still lives in
Massachusetts with her musician husband and
daughter.
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SCHOOL LIBRARY The Mitten Town Mouse Country
Mouse Berlioz the Bear Wild Christmas
Reindeer Christmas Trolls Annie and the Wild
Animals Fritz and the Beautiful Horse The First
Dog Twas the Night Before Christmas Trouble with
Trolls CLASSROOM LIBRARY Armadillo Rodeo The
Hat The Gingerbread Baby Comets Nine Lives Owl
and the Pussycat
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Click on the book to see what we have done.
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The Mitten
We reenacted The Mitten with stick puppets from
Jan Bretts web site.
Can you identify all the characters from The
Mitten?
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Gingerbread Baby vs. Gingerbread Boy
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Town Mouse Country Mouse
We learned about the 5 senses and talked about
the senses the mice used in the story The Town
Mouse and The Country Mouse.
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TASKS
1. Draw a hedgehog, bear and/or an armadillo
using Jan Bretts instructions.
2. Choose your favorite Jan Brett story and write
three facts about it.
3. Reenact The Mitten and/or The Hat using stick
puppets.
4. Make a collage of wild animals and tame
animals.
5. Discuss the five senses and how the mice used
them in Town Mouse Country Mouse.
6. Make a Venn diagram on the likes/differences
between the Gingerbread Baby and The Gingerbread
Boy.
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Who is Roald Dahl?
What we know.
What you want to learn.
What you have learned.
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Who is Roald Dahl?
Roald Dahl born September 13, 1916 in Llandaff.
1925 Enters St. Peter's School in
WestonSuperMare. 1939 Joins Royal Air Force.
Learns to fly fighter plane in Nairobi, Kenya.
1940 Suffers serious injuries as result of plane
crash in Libya. Spends several months in military
hospital in Alexandria, Egypt.
More About Mr. Dahl
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More About Mr. Dahl
1942 Begins working at British Embassy in
Washington. "Shot Down Over Libya" appears in
Saturday Evening Post in August. 1943 The
Gremlins. First published book. 1953 Marries
Patricia Neal on July 2. 1960 Son, Theo Matthew
Roald, born July 30. Later baby's carriage is hit
by taxicab in New York City, causing massive head
injuries. 1962 James and the Giant Peach.
Daughter Olivia dies of measles encephalitis on
November 17.
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1965 Patricia Neal suffers three massive strokes
on February 17 and returns home three months
later. Daughter Lucy Neal born August 4. 1983
The Witches, Dirty Beasts, and Roald Dahl's Book
of Ghost Stories. Wins New York Times Outstanding
Books Award (for The Witches) and Whitbread Award
(for The Witches). Also wins World Fantasy
Convention Lifetime Achievement Award and
Federation of Children's Book Groups Award.
Divorces Patricia Neal on November 17 and marries
Felicity Crosland. 1988 Matilda and Ah, Sweet
Mystery of Life. 1990 Esio Trot. The Witches
(film). Wins Smarties Award (for Esio Trot).
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Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Project Report By Nicholas
Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Is about a
little kid named Charlie He is a bright kid, Then
Willie Wonka had a contest And the winners got to
take a tour in his chocolate factory! Luckily
Charlie finds a golden ticket! Then he sets out
on a exciting adventure. In the end, Willie Wonka
sees what A special boy Charlie is and he and
his family get to move to the chocolate Factory
and he lived happily ever after
I Liked Willie Wonka and the chocolate factory
because its a Cool and weird story about
Willie Wonka and the chocolate factory!
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THE MAGIC FINGER
Project report by Jack
This book is about a girl who when she gets mad
and sees red, points her finger at the people and
changes them.
She changed her teacher into a cat because she
called her stupid when she spelled cat wrong.
She changed the Gregg family into ducks when she
got mad at them for hunting deer and ducks. She
turned the ducks into people to teach them a
lesson.
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Report Project by Ariana
THE BIG FRIENDLY GIANT
The story I read by Roald Dahl is called The
BFG.BFG stands for Big Friendly Giant.The story
begins when the BFG takes an orphan girl named
Sophie from her bed at night because she is the
only human that has ever seen him.
The BFG lives in Giant country with 9 other
giants. The BFG spends his nights blowing good
dreams into the windows of sleeping girls and
boys. The other 9 giants travel all over the
world every night eating people,especially
children. Sophie and the BFG come up with a plan
to stop the giants from eating people. They even
get help from the Queen of England and her army.
I liked this story because it had a lot of funny
words like phizzwizard. The giants names were
funny but gross. The story was so funny I
couldnt stop reading it.
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What you have learned.
1. Each student will read a book written by
Roald Dahl. 2. They will create a diorama
about their story. 3. They will write a summary
about their story.
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Books by Roald Dahl
The BFG Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Charlie
and the Great Glass Elevator Danny, the Champion
of the World The Enormous Crocodile Esio
Trot Fantastic Mr. Fox George's Marvelous
Medicine
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Books by Roald Dahl
(Continued)
The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me The Gremlins
James and the Giant Peach The Magic Finger
Matilda The Minpins The Twits The Vicar of
Nibbleswicke The Witches (Not Available In Van
Corlear Library)
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Look What We Know
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Who is Tomie de Paola?
What we know?
What you want to know
What you've learned.
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Tomie dePaola
Tomie dePaola (dePowla) was born in
Connecticut on September 15, 1934. He was very
lucky to have a wonderful family--- a mom, a dad,
an older brother, two younger sisters, Italian
grandparents, Irish grandparents, an Irish
great-grandmother, and lots of aunts, uncles and
cousins. His mother loved books and spent many
hours reading to Tomie. His Irish grandfather
told him stories. When he was a little
boy, he loved books and the pictures in them. He
told everyone that he wanted to draw pictures and
write stories. Many of his books are about his
family.
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More
Tomie lives on Redwing Farm in New Hampshire
with his dogs, Madison, Moffat, Morgan and
Markus. He has many heart-shaped objects in his
house. The heart, white birds, bunnies and cats
and dogs he uses as his personal symbols, are
often found in his illustrations. Tomie has
also done some paintings and murals for churches.
One of his murals is at the Dominican Spiritual
Center in Schenectady, NY.
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Things We Know About Tomie
Tomies favorite color is white, his
favorite food is popcorn and his favorite holiday
is Christmas. He does a special book each
Christmas season. Tomie loves to cook and
garden. He has 4 dogs. In 1976 Tomie
received the Caldecott Honor Award for his book,
Strega Nona. Strega Nona (Grandma Witch In
Italian) is a well-known character of Tomie de
Paolas. She can make love potions, get rid of
warts, cure headaches and do magic. She is often
joined by Big Anthony and Bambalona.
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Student Work
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Student Work
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Student Work
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Student Work
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Try This

• 1. Draw a sheep the way Tomie taught us on the
  video, Tomie de
• Paola, Live in Concert.
• 2. What is your favorite Tomie de Paola book?
  Retell the story to
• to a friend.
• 3. Write a story about you and your family.
• Here are some story starters
• When I was little When I grow up
• One day Grandpa The funniest thing
  happened
• 4. Who is your favorite Tomie de Paola
  character? Tell about the character.
  Why is he or she your favorite?

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Our Van Corlaer Library has these Tomie de Paola
books Andy ( Thats My Name)
The Art Lesson Big Anthony (His Story)
Big Anthony and the Magic
Ring Strega Nona
Merry Christmas Strega Nona Strega Nona Meets
Her Match The Legend of Old Befana Strega
Nonas Magic Lesson The Legend of the
Bluebonnet Jamie ORourke and the Big Potato
The Cloud Book The Legend of the Indian
Paintbrush Fin MCoul Nana Upstairs and Nana
Downstairs Tom Helgas Dowry (A Trolls Love
Story) Tomie de Paolas Favorite Nursery Tales

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Who is Phyllis Naylor?
What we know
What you want to learn
What you've learned
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Let us tell you about Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Click on us to hear what we have to say
Ill start!
Ill finish
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Million Dollar Questions???
Make a Time Line of Phyllis Reynolds Naylors
life?
Can you
Compare and contrast Marty and Judd Traviss
personalities in the Shiloh trilogies?
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We Read
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and read
and read
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Shiloh Shiloh Season Saving Shiloh To Walk The
Sky Path Fear Place Alice In April The Agony of
Alice
Books In Our Library
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back
IF I RAN THE ZOO
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Daisyhead Maisy
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My Many Colored Days
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back
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
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back
Yertle the Turtle
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Who is E.B. White?
What we know
What you want to learn
What you've learned
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This is EB White
EB White was born on July 11,1899 in Mount
Veron, New York. EB White died on October 1,
1985. He died from Alzheimers disease. He wrote
for both , the New Yorker and Harpers
magazines. E.B White wrote One Mans Meat
(1942). Charlottes Web 1959 and The Elements of
Style (1959).He also wrote Stuart Little (1945),
and Trumpet of the Swan(1970). He won a gold
medal for essays and criticism of the National
Institute of arts and letters. He also won a
Pulitzer Prize special citation in 1978.
By John
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About Charlottes
Web Charlottes Web is about a spider named
Charlotte, a pig named Wilbur, and a girl named
Fern. Wilbur lives with Mr and Mrs Zuckerman.
Fern lives on a farm down the street from Mr and
Mrs Zuckerman. Charlotte lives in a doorway in
Wilburs pen. Charlotte is Wilburs friend.
Charlotte built her web with words like some
pig, terrific, and radient .In the story ,
Wilbur goes to a pig contest and wins 1st prize.
He wins 1st prize for being the best looking pig.
Charlotte died from old age. At the end of the
stor y her babys were born. Read to feel the
excitement of the story. . .
By Sarah
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What We Think About
Charlotte's Web
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By Breanna
My favorite part of Charlottes Web is when
Fern gets the
Pig. She names him Wilbur Thats my
favorite part .
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Test your Learning

• These are some activities that students could do
  after they
• have read the story
• Make a story map
• Write a different ending
• Draw a picture of your favorite scene and tell
  why it is
• your favorite scene
• Summarize each chapter
• Write 5 questions for another student to answer-
  Who,
• What, When, Where, How, and Why

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Books By EB White
Charlottes Web Trumpet of the Swan Stuart
Little One Man Meat Everyday is Saturday The
Fox of Pea Pack
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Our Charlotte's Web Dioramas
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Choose one on the bottom to explore our learnings
Summary
Project
What We Think
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Link to Lesson Plan
References