Author Study Ideas

I am excited to start our unit on author studies....one of my favorite things to teach! 

In this unit download, I just listed some ideas that I plan to do each day of our Cynthia Rylant unit.  I also created pages to go with most of the lessons.

 

These are the books we cover in this unit:

 

 

 

 

 

Click below to download the lesson ideas:

Author Study: Cynthia Rylant

 

 

 

 

As we go through the unit, I have the students add most of the activities we do to a foldable.  They love this, especially since they take the foldable home at the end of the unit!  I always add a small journal to the back of the foldable.  Here's an example of what my foldable looks like:

 

Front:

 

Inside the left flap:

Inside the right flap:

 

The inside flap:

Back: 

 

 

Click here to downlad the pages that go with the unit: 

 

Cynthia Rylant Unit

 

 Here's a quiz over the books and lessons covered in this unit:

 

Cynthia Rylant Quiz

 

 

For a culminating activity, the students will choose what they want to do.  These pages are also in the unit download. Here are a few examples:

 

 

 

 

I am also working on an author study unit for Patricia Polacco. I'm almost done... so check back soon if you want the lessons and downloads!

 

Thanks!