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Not icings: Leo Lionni Directions: As you look through the books, take notice about what you see in the illustrations, read in the story elements
and observe about other aspects of the author’s style.
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Task # 1
Choose a book from the basket. Choose a page to practice reading fluently. Read the passage over
and over. Work to read the words smoothly while showing expression.
Read it to aloud to a friend.
Task # 2
Read with a partner! Choose a book from the basket.
With a partner, take turns reading the book together. Each of you will
read one sentence during your turn.
Read with Fluency
Read with a Partner
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Task #3
Who is your favorite Leo Lionni character? Write a new story about an adventure that the
character has.
Task # 4
Using a computer or tablet, research Leo Lionni. On your recording page, share three
interesting facts you learn about his life.
Learn About Leo Lionni’s Life
Write About a Favorite Character
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Task #5
Leo Lionni characters are animals. What kind of an animal would you
choose for a main character? Write a story about that
character that has a moral (lesson) for the reader to learn.
Task #6
Read and work with a partner. Choose a book from the basket. Take turns reading the pages
together. Talk about the story as you read and then together work
on a Story Map.
Write a Story with a Moral
Complete a Story Map
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Task #7
Choose a Leo Lionni book that you would like to read again. Think about the main character. Decide which
character traits you feel describe the character best. Write about them on
Character Counts!
Task #8
Flip through the books in the basket. Find some new or interesting words Leo Lionni used. Write them on your
Words! Words! Words! page and follow the directions.
Think About Character Traits
Learn New Words
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Task #9
Cut around the outside edge of the flipbook, then cut along the dotted lines up to the middle of the book. Fold the flaps down.
Choose a Leo Lionni book. Think of the most important events in the beginning, middle and end of the book and write them on the inside.
Draw a picture on the front of the flap to match your writing.
Task #10
Find two passages from a book that Leo Lionni uses to help the reader
visualize what is happening. Write the words you found in the box, then draw a picture to show what you see in your
mind as you read the passage.
Make a Retell Flip Book
Visualize
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Task #11
Choose two Leo Lionni books and find words he uses that help you visualize the settings in those stories. Then draw pictures to match what you
visualized as you read.
Task #12
Think about the Leo Lionni stories we have read. Compare them by listing
the story elements on the chart. Then discuss the similarities and
differences on the chart.
Visualize the Setting
Compare Leo Lionni Stories
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Name: ___________________________________
Lionni’s Life!
Interesting Fact #1:
Here are three interesting things I learned about Leo Lionni’s life…
Interesting Fact #3:
Interesting Fact #2:
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Name: ___________________________________
My Leo Lionni Story My Title: _________________________________
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Name: ___________________________________
Story Map Book: _______________________________ Author: ______________________________
Main Character Setting
Beginning Middle End
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Story Map Book: _______________________________ Author: ______________________________
Main Character Setting
Lesson Problem Solution
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Name: ___________________________________
Story Map Book: _______________________________ Author: ______________________________
Main Character Setting
Problem Solution Life lesson learned: ______________________ _____________________________________
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Name: ___________________________________
Character Counts! Book: _______________________________ Author: ______________________________ Main Character: _______________________
Character Trait: __________ Character Trait: __________
Character Trait: __________ Character Trait: __________
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Name: ___________________________________
Words! Words! Words! Word
Meaning
Picture
Word
Meaning
Picture
Word
Meaning
Picture
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Words! Words! Words!
Interesting Word: _________ Interesting Word: _________
Interesting Word: _________
Interesting Word: _________
Interesting Word: _________
Interesting Word: _________
Directions: Pick six new or interesting words from the stories. Write the words, look up their definitions and write their meanings in your own words or use them in a sentence.
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Visualizing
Directions: Find two passages from the book the author uses to help the reader visualize what is happening. Write the words you found in the box, then draw a picture to show what you see in
your mind as you read the passage.
Passage What I see
Book: _______________________________ Author: ______________________________
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Visualizing the Sett ing
Directions: In the top box, record words that help you visualize the setting. Below the words you find, draw a picture to show
what you visualize as you read.
Book 1 Book 2
Book 1: _______________________________ Book 2: _______________________________
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It’s Mine! Parts of Speech Sort
nouns adjectives verbs
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nouns adjectives verbs adverbs
It’s Mine! Parts of Speech Sort
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Person, Place or Thing Action Words
Describing Words
It’s Mine! Parts of Speech Sort
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Person Place Thing
It’s Mine! Noun Sort
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frog toad
dawn dusk
peace weeds
fright swarms
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quibbled leaped
appeared bickering
croaked rumble
clung disappear
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huddled subsided
recognized suddenly
defiantly desperately
gently joyfully
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smooth leafy
quarrelsome endless
distant slippery
trembling sandy
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Focus on: Adject ives Word
Meaning
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Frederick’s Rhyming Words Word #1 Word #2
ice nice
June moon
sky I
showers flowers
wheat feet
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poet *know it
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Frederick’s Rhyming Words Word #1 Word #2
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where stone
wall field
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cold said
long snow
berries corn
eyes blue
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Focus on: Rhyming Words
The word is: A word that rhymes is: Is it the same word family?
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Focus on Feelings in Frederick Words, Events or
Pictures in the Story…
Background knowledge I
Used…
What I can infer about the feelings Frederick’s family
is having?
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Name: ___________________________________ Visualizing
Directions: Copy the descriptive sentence from the card below. Next, draw a picture to show what you see in your mind as you
read those words.
The passage says: _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________
Show what you visualize as you read the words:
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a medusa made of rainbow jelly
strange fish pulled by an invisible thread
a lobster who walked about like a water moving
machine
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a forest of seaweeds growing from sugar candy
rocks
see anemones who looked like pink palm trees swaying
in the wind
an eel whose tail was almost too far away to
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Directions: Swimmy is a problem solver. He works to think of a solution. How would the story be different if Swimmy had not
worked to think of a way to solve the problem?
I predict the story would have ended like this: _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________
Show the ending:
What If?
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Focus on: Verb Tense Past Tense Verbs Present Tense Verbs
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hatched crawled
walked grew
came saw
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decided walk
met stand
hang learn
asked replied
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help learned
look frowned
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Cornelius learned to stand on his head and hang from his tail. What have you always wanted to learn to do and why?
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Cornelius got angry with the other crocodiles and walked away. Write about a time you got angry and walked away from
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The other crocodiles were probably a bit jealous of all the tricks Cornelius had learned.
Write about a time you were jealous of someone. Why did you feel that way?
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Story Map Book: _______________________________ Author: ______________________________
Main Character Setting
Lesson Problem Solution
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A Color of My Own
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Directions: In this story the chameleon was sad because he didn’t have a color of his own. If you were the chameleon, what color(s) would you want to be and why?
Color your chameleon and then explain why you chose those colors.
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