Tomie dePaola books are a teacher’s dream for teaching comprehension skills, story structure, problem/solution, author’s viewpoint, cause and effect, comparing and analyzing story elements and character traits, as well as lending themselves to endless writing opportunities.
This Tomie dePaola author study is loaded with high interest lesson plans and fun activities for getting your students reading, writing, and most of all thinking!
In addition to over 20 student response activities it includes a culminating author study folder with cover art and pocket labels which makes the perfect presentation for an open house! Use this unit as a 3-4 week author study or pick and choose from the books and activities throughout the year.
Please download the 4 page preview to see all of the activities and details.
The activities and skills are based on the following books:
- The Art Lesson
- Little Grunt and the Big Egg
- Tony’s Bread
- Strega Nona
- Strega Nona Meets Her Match
- Strega Nona Takes a Vacation
- Big Anthony His Story
- Strega Nona Her Story
- Strega Nona’s Magic Lessons
- Big Anthony and the Magic Ring
(Many of the Strega Nona activities can be used with any Strega Nona book you have available)
What’s included in the Tomie dePaola author study?
- Meet Tomie dePaola print or project lesson visual
- Author research student page with clickable link
- The Art Lesson
- Author’s Viewpoint anchor chart example and chart parts
- Author’s Viewpoint print or project lesson visual
- Think Like An Author writing craft
- Gallery of Characters mini-art gallery and character traits craft
- The Art Lesson Fact or Opinion sort I
- Remember text-to-self writing activity
- The Strega Nona Series
- Strega Nona Graphic organizers: What is a Strega? circle map
- Describe Strega Nona bubble map
- Strega Nona’s Kitchen setting brace map
- Describe Big Anthony bubble map
- Comparing His Story and Her Story chart
- Forming Analogies with Story
- Patterns bridge map
- Comparing characters double bubble map
- Cause & Effect anchor chart/lesson visual
- Big Anthony’s Antics! cause & effect tri-fold brochure activity
- Italian Words class anchor chart example
- Italian Dictionary flip book
- Greetings from Strega Nona post card writing activity
- Who’s Who? character trait sort
- Don’t Forget! Writing craft
- Little Grunt and the Big Egg
- Drawing Conclusions class anchor chart
- Visualizing anchor chart example with chart parts
- Visualize a Volcano! words that help the reader “see” and “feel” an erupting volcano
- Prehistoric Problem/Solution anchor chart example with chart parts
- Prehistoric Problems & Solutions
- Dinosaur Egg craft
- The Adventures of Cave Kids comic strip writing activity plus blank template for any book
- Caring for Your Prehistoric Pet Informational Text booklet-writing activity
- Compare a caveman to a modern man double bubble map
- Tony’s Bread Sandwich Summaries anchor chart /lesson visual
- Sandwich Summaries student prewriting page
- Somebody Wanted A Sandwich summary accordion book
- Not Your Ordinary PB and J multi-step directions writing activity
- How Does Tony Change? class anchor chart example with chart parts
- How Does Tony Change? flubble map (combo bubble/flow map) student page
- Comparing Story Elements
- Charts student book with cover
- Culminating Tomie dePaola unit folder with directions and photos, pocket labels and blank labels to create your own titles.
Additional materials:
- 4 printable/projectable anchor charts
- 5 different class chart ideas including chart parts, graphic organizers, printables, vocabulary work
- a Meet the Author mini research page.
As a THANK YOU! for purchasing this unit I’ve also added a bonus freebie: Strega Nona’s House: A foldable fairy tale cottage booklet (shown above in the cover photo) with templates and inserts for publishing responses to literature, letters to the author, character analysis or any related student writing during your author study.
Happy teaching!
Linda Kamp
Around the Kampfire
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