K-Author+Eric+Carle

**ERIC CARLE** **Eric Carle is the offical author study for Kindergarten. We study Eric Carle in Readers' and Writers' Workshop. In Readers' Workshop, we focus the instruction on story elements and reading responses. In Writers' Workshop, we use this study to write responses with an emphasis on books by the same author and across his books.**





See Eric Carle's Official [|Photo and Video Gallery]

__**Resources**__
 * The Official web site of [|**Eric Carle**]
 * [|Eric Carle's blog!] How cool is that?!
 * [|Pinterest board]


 * __Overview__**
 * [|Introducing Eric Carle] blog
 * [|Activities]
 * Examples of classroom charts[[image:partner_read_feb_and_story_maps_005.jpg]] [[image:Pow_Pow_194.jpg width="164" height="299"]] [[image:Pow_Pow_196.jpg width="168" height="296"]] [[image:Pow_Pow_199.jpg width="363"]] [[image:Pow_Pow_201.jpg width="173" height="289"]] [[image:Pow_Pow_203.jpg width="199" height="274"]]


 * __Art by Eric Carle[[image:EC_paper_NC.jpg width="88" height="128"]]__**
 * [|art activity inspired by Eric Carle's]
 * [|Eric Carle's blog about end papers]

Reading Response
 * Using an author study to do [|reading responses]


 * __Books by Eric Carle__ with suggestions for teaching the book following each picture and title.**

//Do You Want to Be My Friend?*//
 * Retell the story by acting it out. For props buy your own copy of the book (buy a cheaper used book for this project). Take the book apart and laminate each page. Give each student a two-sided picture card. Each card contains an animal on one side and his tail on the other side. Let students arrange themselves so that they are in the same order as the animals in the story. To begin, have the students show the side containing the tail only. As each animal is mentioned, student turns his card over so that the animal can be shown.
 * In the art section of this site, [|masks]are available that can be copied for retelling this story.
 * [[image:Pow_Pow_197.jpg width="160" height="89"]]Invite each student to draw a picture of one of the animals on a large index card. Read the story and have students bring the picture of their animals as you read that part of the story. These pictures can be placed in a sentence strip chart that can be used to retell the story.

//Have You Seen My Cat?*//
 * //Have You Seen My Cat?// is a good book for identifying high frequency words. This site includes flash cards of some of the [|high frequency words]in the story that could be sent home for practice or used in Skills Block.
 * Invite each student to choose a cat and create a cat masks out of tagboard or construction paper. Invite students to decorate these and then use them to act out the story. Put the masks and copies of the book in a Center for retelling.
 * Connection to technology: [|Make a class Google map locating the different types of cats in the book.]

//From Head to Toe*//
 * [|A video clip of Eric Carle reading From Head to Toe]with Fred Rogers from PBS
 * Read on Eric Carle's blog about how he got the [|idea for From Head to Toe]
 * [|Video for singing the book!]
 * A 2010 bog post with a voicethread of a retelling of From Head to Toe - [|Eric Carle's From Head to Toe]
 * [[file:From Head To Toe Assessment.doc|Vocabulary Assessment]]

//The Very Hungry Caterpillar*//
 * Website on the [|life cycle of a caterpillar;]Discuss how the life cycle of a butterfly compares with the sequence in the book.
 * Color [|sequence cards]for The Very Hungry Caterpillar
 * [|Felt board patterns]for the story
 * More felt board patterns: [|Page 1], [|Page 2], [|Page 3], [|Page 4], [|Page 5],[|Page 6]
 * Unusual, but cute props to retell the story with a [|Parmesean Cheese can]
 * [|Coloring page]could help the child retell the story by ordering the pictures and then using them to remember the sequence
 * [[image:Pow_Pow_191.jpg]]a student book idea for retelling //The Very Hungry Caterpillar//
 * [[image:VHCatEmergentReader-1.jpg width="100" height="74"]]another cute student [|book retelling]
 * The Very Hungry Caterpillar [|Readers' Theatre][|cute retelling pieces]
 * [|A blog with a video of a teacher presentation]of the story with props.
 * [[image:Pow_Pow_192.jpg width="192" height="107"]]Use large index cards to draw the parts of the story that can be sequenced in a pocket chart to help students remember the sequence



//The Very Busy Spider*//
 * This site includes a weeklong lesson plan for //The Very Busy Spider// including [|colored cards to use in a retelling].
 * Use a "spider web" (concept web) to write the story elements or you could use a web for synonyms for busy.
 * Perform a Reader's Theatre or retelling with puppets: [[file:spider puppets 1.doc|spider puppets 1,]] [[file:spider puppets 2.doc|spider puppets 2]]
 * [|headbands for retelling]
 * black and white children's copies of the story as [|emergent reader]
 * Make a new class book using different animals and different sounds or make a new story altogether (The Very Busy Student, etc.) Consider illustrating your new innovation of the story using Eric Carle's collage technique.

//The Very Quiet Cricket*//
 * Eric Carle's blog about his quintet of [|"Very" books]which would make a nice foundation for a response to literature about how the books are alike.
 * [|Sequence cards] or [|Sequence cards]
 * [|Popsicle stick puppets]
 * [|Printable emergent readers]

//The Very Lonely Firefly*//
 * A 2010 blog post of a child's response that exceeds the standard - [|The result!]
 * Connect to Skills Block/ Vocabulary - Compound Words Memory Game: This book is full of compound words: (//firefly, lightbulb, flashlight, etc.)//The game is played in partner pairs and they flip over 2 cards. If it's a real compound word they get to keep the match, if not they put them back and it's the next player's turn.
 * A 2010 blog post of a child retelling of //The Very Lonely Firefly// - [|The Very Lonely Firefly by Eric Carle and Josey]
 * Artwork based on the book "The Very Lonely Firefly" (but not very Eric Carle style)

//The Very Clumsy Click Beetle*//
 * [[file:click beetle character web.doc|click beetle character web]]
 * Connect to Skills Block: [[file:click beetle -ed ending.doc|-ed ending]]
 * [|Youtube animated story]

//The Secret Birthday Message//
 * Make [|rebus stories] (functional writing)

//The Grouchy Ladybug//
 * Connect to Skills Block/ Vocabulary: Make a list of synonyms for grouchy
 * Connect to Skills Block/ Vocabulary: Make a word wall of feelings allowing students to write a feeling words on a paper plate and illustrate the feeling (happy= smiley face, etc.)
 * A blog post that features a [|class' stick puppet video]retelling of the book.
 * A blog post of a retelling on [|The Grouchy Ladybug]
 * [[file:compound word puzzles.doc|compound word puzzles]]
 * [|an animal vocabulary match]

//Pancakes, Pancakes//
 * Make pancakes with your class - [|Pancakes, Pancakes!]
 * Functional "how to" Writing -Write the recipe for pancakes
 * [[file:pancakes sequence.doc|Sequence the steps ]]to make pancakes

//Little Cloud//
 * Blog entry that includes a voicethread of an [|innovation of Little Cloud.]

//The Mixed Up Chameleon//
 * [|chameleon connections]

//Brown Bear, Brown Bear//
 * [|Listen to Eric Carle read //Brown Bear, Brown Bear//]
 * [[image:9601_SM.jpg width="84" height="99"]][|Watch an interview] of Eric Carle about his relationship with Bill Martin, Jr. and their final book together, //Baby Bear, Baby Bear//


 * __Eric Carle Celebration Day__**
 * [|Celebrating Eric Carle in 2012]
 * [[file:2010 Eric Carle Celebration Day.doc|2010 Schedule and Activities]]
 * 2[|008 Eric Carle Celebration Day]