Purchase School’s 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders all had a visit from the author, Darice Bailer.
She worked in a writing workshop model with each individual class. Students worked on how to enhance their settings in fictional stories that they write.
http://daricebailer.com/about-darice.php
On-line Activities for Authors
Skype The Author Wiki – Wouldn’t it be great to invite an author into your classroom to chat with your students before, during, and/or after you’ve read his book? Learn More…
Borders Media – Author interview – See Diary Wimpy Kid Interview
Reading Rocket – Author Video Interviews
Scholastic Author Visit List - Support on Scholastic for settting up author visits.
Author Video and Audio Podcasts – free video and audio podcasts from Reading Rockets video and audio chats with favorite authors, as well as videos of best practices.
Bookwink – video previews of children’s books and young adult literature.
Meet the Author / Illustrator Page – Children’s Literature reviewers read and critically review more than 4,000 books annually. Our mission is to help teachers, librarians, childcare providers and parents make appropriate literary choices for children.
Google Lit Trips – A Different Way to Read Great Literature!This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place… and so much more!
AUTHORS & ILLUSTRATORS:
Brett, Jan
Carle, Eric
DePaola, Tomie
Florian, Douglas
George, Kristine O’Connell
Henkes, Kevin
Hoberman, Mary Ann
Kirby, Mona
Lester, Helen
Parish, Peggy
Pearson, Tracey Campbell
Rappaport, Doreen
Roy, Ron
BOOK BASED ACTIVITIES
A Series of Unfortunate Events
This site has all sorts of fun activities connected to the popular books.
Captain Underpants Book Quiz
On line quiz about Captain Underpants books
Captain Underpants Maze Game
Play this Scholastic Captain Underpants Game for fun
CBeebies
More interactive stories and activities. These are more like story movies
Dave Pilkey’s Game Website
Go to Dave Pilkey’s Website to explore activities and review of Captain Underpants. You can also play the game to “help captain underpants escape booger boy”.
Favorite Authors and Illustrators
Did you just read a book by an author that you really enjoyed? Are you interested in finding another book similar to it that you can read next? Come to this website to continue working on your book selections.
Geronimo Stilton
A Fun newsletter written by Geronimo himself
Goosebumps
This website has fun games, writing starters and other activities all based on the Goosebumps books.
I’m Reading
Interactive Reading books with activities
It’s Fun to Read
This site has some interactive story book websites.
James E. Ransome
This well-known illustrator came to visit our school in 2007.
Magic Tree House
This site has an interesting activity on timelines and a lot of good information about the Tree House series
Nate the Great and Mysteries
This site has a lot of printable activities about mysteries- a perfect follow up to our book report!
Secrets of Droon
These are all great games having to do with the Secrets of Droon
Storybook Website
This website is a fun one for reaidng storybooks together and then doing activities.
The Edge Chronicles
Looking for a new fantasy/adventure? Maybe the Edge Chronicles will interest you!
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Play games and learn about the characters and creatures in the books.
