Reading with Curious George Author Study Grades 2-4
EBOTM14200
$20.99 CAD
Additional information:
- Author : Rodgers, Kathleen
Bring the timeless adventures of Curious George into your literacy block with this comprehensive author‑study resource designed for Grades 1–3. This unit provides a complete reading program built around H.A. Rey’s beloved stories, offering structured routines for comprehension, phonics, grammar, creative thinking, and personal response. Teachers can easily transition students from whole‑group modeling to small‑group work and finally to independent reading using the included weekly framework.
Inside the resource, you’ll find reproducible worksheets for every Curious George title, each featuring comprehension questions, word‑study tasks, and higher‑order thinking prompts. Students explore curiosity, problem‑solving, community helpers, and character actions while strengthening foundational literacy skills. Creative extension activities comic strips, postcards, story quilts, research projects, puppets, and more allow students to demonstrate understanding in engaging, hands‑on ways.
Teacher supports include detailed instructional notes, mini‑lesson resources, evaluation sheets, and individualized student tracking sheets. The unit also incorporates nonfiction background information on chimpanzees, making cross‑curricular science connections easy and meaningful.
What’s Included
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Comprehension, Word Study & Thinking‑About‑the‑Story worksheets for all Curious George books
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Teacher Input Suggestions & weekly instructional routines
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Author biography of H.A. Rey
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Student Activity Tracking Sheets
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Teacher Evaluation Sheets
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Reproducible Creative Activities (25 options)
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Mini‑lesson grammar resources (nouns, verbs, adjectives, blends, digraphs, plurals, contractions, etc.)
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Folder setup instructions for individualized reading programs
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Bulletin board ideas and classroom extensions
Skills Covered
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Reading comprehension
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Retelling & sequencing
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Inferencing & predicting
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Vocabulary development
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Phonics & grammar
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Narrative, opinion & creative writing
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Oral communication & discussion
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Text‑to‑self connections
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Visual literacy & arts integration
Perfect For
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Author studies
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Literacy centers
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Small‑group guided reading
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Independent reading programs
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Cross‑curricular literacy + science connections
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Classroom teachers, literacy coaches, and intervention programs
Each set of activities for each book includes these skills:
The Comprehension section deals with Knowledge, Comprehension, Analysis, and Evaluation based on Bloom's taxonomy, e.g. identifying, sequencing events, matching a character to an event, judging why a character acted a certain way.
There are two questions under the heading Word Study. One question relates to phonics and the other to word study or grammar. If your students are unfamiliar with any of these skills, they should be taught as mini-lessons to ensure successful completion of the reading activities. The following skills will be explored:
Phonics: blends, digraphs, double consonants, double vowels, long vowels, short vowels
Word Study: adjectives, antonyms, compound words, contractions, dictionary definitions, nouns, plurals, rhyming words, root words, silent letters, suffixes, syllabication, theme specific vocabulary, verbs, verb past tenses, verb suffixes
In the Thinking About the Story section, the students are asked to relate what happened in the story to their own personal experiences or to evaluate some action or character in the story.
Curious George Books Covered:
- Curious George
- Curious George Goes to the Aquarium
- Curious George Bakes a Cake
- Curious George at the Ballet
- Curious George Plays Baseball
- Curious George at the Beach
- Curious George Goes to the Circus
- Curious George Goes to a Costume Party
- Curious George Goes to the Dentist
- Curious George and the Dinosaur
- Curious George and the Dump Truck
- Curious George at the Fire Station
- Curious George Flies a Kite
- Curious George Goes to the Hospital
- Curious George Goes to an Ice Cream Shop
- Curious George Learn the Alphabet
- Curious George and the Pizza
- Curious George at the Railroad Station
- Curious George Rides a Bike
- Curious George Goes to School
- Curious George Goes Sledding
- Curious George Takes a Job
- Curious George Visits a Police Station
- Curious George Walks the Pets
Creative Activities:
- Alphabet Bookmark
- Hero Award
- Monkey Bookmark
- Writing Slogan
- Comic Strip
- Pictograph
- Get Well Card
- Writing an Invitation
- Writing a Postcard
- Writing About George
- Writing a Want-Ad
- Making a Story Quilt
- Writing a Recipe
- Safety Rules
- Chimpanzee Research
- Making a Game Board
- Creating a Secret Code
- Story Passport
- Making a Paper Bag Puppet
- Behaviour Report
- An Acrostic Poem
- Writing a Limerick
- Choose a Title
- Painting a Scene
- Book Poster
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