HIT: ELEM VanAllsburg activities

[Jan Sullivan <JanNws@AOL.COM>]

I posted the following:

**I have a fourth grade teacher who is currently doing an author study on
Chris
VanAllsburg.  She is specifically looking for vocabulary and comprehension
activities as well as a small project for the following books:

        _The Wretched Stone_
        _The Witches Broom_
        _The Sweetest Fig_
        _Bad Day at Riverbend_


I got helpful comments from William, Bev, Marjie, Liz, Anne, and Linda.
Thanks so much for your help!  Here are their thoughts -

***Go to this website and you will find more activities than you can use!

http://www.educ.ucalgary.ca/cgi-bin/ROFM.acgi


***Did you know that Van Allsburg includes a drawing of a little white
dog in each and every book?  He had a small white dog when he was a
boy and he has made that his signature.  In The Dream, you can find
the dog as a hood ornament on a car, in Two Bad Ants, he is a tiny
little animal in amongst a busily patterned page - I can't remember
for sure.  My kids always like to find it.


***I would include TWO BAD ANTS. It deals with point of view (from the ants
point of view) and also Following directions.


***There was an article in Book Links recently about
Chris Van Allsburg which included some activities, but
I don't remember which books it included. The issue
was from the Spring or this Fall, because I made a
copy for one of our fourth grade teachers. I can try
to find the issue tomorrow in my library, but I am
home now.

Note:  I found the article in Book Bag rather than Book Links - it was great!!


***I've just started my fourth grade unit on Van Allsburg.  We basically
read, discuss, compare and enjoy.


***I did a lesson last year with VanAllsburg that went over very well.  I am
home and forget the name of the book.  It was something about Harris Burdick
I think.  They are all pictures and titles from a man who supposedly dropped
them off at a publishers and then disappeared.  They were all great story
starters and the kids did a real good job writing their own stories. They
were all bizarre pictures.



Thanks again to all who took time out of their busy day to offer help!

Jan Sullivan, SLMS
Brooks Hill Elementary
Fairport, NY
JanNWS@aol.com

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