___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ AUTHOR STUDIES Lara Sims & Shannon Scott Springfield Public Schools ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ GETTING STARTED Please sit according to your grade level. ___________________________________ Create a name tag and write your full name on a slip of paper. Please take a green sticker and place it in the ___________________________________ appropriate category on the consensogram. Get to know your table mates. ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ SESSION OBJECTIVES To understand the purpose of an ___________________________________ author study Know the steps in creating an author study ___________________________________ Have a plan to teach these skills in your classroom ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ INTRODUCTION TO AUTHOR STUDIES ___________________________________ Let’s do Jot Thought! Take 3 slips of paper and take turns answering the following question: ___________________________________ What can you do with an author study? ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ “For young children to understand ___________________________________ what it means for them to be writers, they first need to understand what a writer is and ___________________________________ what a writer does.” -Katie Wood Ray & Matt Glover ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ WHY AUTHOR STUDIES? Reading books by the same author “helps children understand that writing isn’t a one- ___________________________________ time event; people continue to write over time.” ___________________________________ “Reading multiple books by the same authors and illustrators helps children imagine new possibilities for themselves as writers.” ___________________________________ -Katie Wood Ray & Matt Glover ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ WHAT IS AN AUTHOR STUDY? “An author study is a unit lesson ___________________________________ that gives students the opportunity to delve deeply into an author’s life and body ___________________________________ of work.” -Reading Rockets ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ It gives students a chance to: Critically evaluate an author’s ___________________________________ theme, characters, and writing style Make connections between the author’s life and work ___________________________________ Make personal connections between their own experiences and those of the author and their characters ___________________________________ -Reading Rocket ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE? Steps to an author study: ___________________________________ Choose an author. Gather texts and read them. ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ WHAT DO I WANT TO TEACH? Select 3-4 ideas you want to focus your study around. ___________________________________ Mo Willems: Reflected Pictures ___________________________________ Speech Bubbles Big and Little Words Funny! ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Make sure to ___________________________________ select books that support these ideas. ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ STEPS TO AN AUTHOR STUDY Read the texts aloud to your students. ___________________________________ Involve students in an inquiry discussion of the texts and create ___________________________________ an anchor chart. ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ MODEL, MODEL, MODEL Model for students how to write like this ___________________________________ author. Create a shared writing with the ___________________________________ students ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ALLOW THE STUDENTS TO ___________________________________ CREATE THEIR OWN TEXTS Don’t Let the Pigeon Ride Don’t Let the Pigeon the Bike Skateboard ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Lets explore more ___________________________________ about the authors ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ PROCESS TIME Take a sticky note and answer the ___________________________________ following questions: What authors could you study? ___________________________________ What skills would you teach? What do you still want to know? ___________________________________ *If you still have questions, use the parking lot. ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ MAKING FOLDERS ___________________________________ ___________________________________ “Seeing oneself as like another person is so critical to reading like a writer, children need to see authors and illustrators as more that just names printed on ___________________________________ books.” -Katy Wood Ray ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Look through the books on your ___________________________________ table. What do they have in common? ___________________________________ What skills would you teach? ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ NOW YOU KNOW…. The purpose of an author study ___________________________________ The steps in creating an author study ___________________________________ How to teach these skills in your classroom ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ What questions ___________________________________ do you still have? ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, EMAIL US! Shannon Scott Lara Sims ___________________________________ [email protected] [email protected] ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ RESOURCES Ray, K.W. (2007). In Pictures and In Words. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. ___________________________________ Ray, K.W. & Glover, M. (2008). Already Ready. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. “The Author Study Toolkit”. (2011). Retrieved from www.readingrockets.org. ___________________________________ Folders inspired by Mrs. Tabb. Retrieved from http://anotherdayinfirstgrade.blogspot.com ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ K-2 Author Study Schedule Kindergarten Author Studies Mo Willems www.mowillems.com David Shannon No personal website Eric Carle www.eric-carle.com Robert Munsch www.robertmunsch.com Lois Ehlert No personal website -------------------------------------------------------------- First Grade Author Studies Laura Numeroff www.lauranumeroff.com Jan Brett www.janbrett.com Kevin Henkes www.kevinhenkes.com Doreen Cronin www.doreencroning.com Gail Gibbons www.gailgibbons.com Dr. Seuss No personal website -------------------------------------------------------------- Second Grade Author Studies Leo Lionni No personal website Tomie dePaola www.tomie.com Eve Bunting No personal website Patricia