Final+Project-work+in+progress

Final Project-Work in progress

Wiki page on the media server http://shs-20.scarsdaleschools.k12.ny.us/groups/sesqrcheunglobel/

Notes for Arnold Lobel Author Study
Arnold Lobel Author Study (6 weeks) Try to find video Introduction to the author-display board Start with “Getting to Know Arnold Lobel” • Use boxlight and project website www.arnoldlobel.com • He was also an illustrator • Best known for Frog & Toad Series • Grew up in Schenectady, NY • Parent divorced, lived with grandparents • Loved to tell stories as a kid • He went to college, & graduated from Pratt Institute of Art, NYC, focused on illustrations • Met wife Anita at Pratt-Anita is a writer and illustrator too • They worked together on some books • Arnold has received Caldecott and Newbury awards

Get the kids to read the various books by Arnold Lobel • Start out with Frog and Toad series • Compare and Contrast Frog & Toad-Frog & Toad Are Friends • Focus on their friendship • Chart how frog and toad are different • Writing: explore conventions of dialogue-Using quotation marks-In “The Story” • “A Lost Button” Descriptive language- talk about ways Lobel shows toad getting more and more upset as he looks for his buttons, add to list “ways to tell how someone is saying something-sighed, laughed, yelled, whispered, squealed, asked • Create new adventures of Frog & Toad • Frog & Toad Together-chart “Who & What Starts It”? • Frog & Toad Toegether-A List-point of view chart, make a list • Frog & Toad All Year- turn and talk book talk, identify the main idea and details, experiencing the seasons,-change over time • Days with Frog & Toad-Alone together poetry • Over all theme-What does it mean to be a friend?