Reading with Arnold Lobel Author Study Grades 1-3 (Frog & Toad books)

OTM14162

$26.99 CAD

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  • Author : Rodgers, Kathleen

Reading with Arnold Lobel – Author Study (Grades 1–4) Bring Arnold Lobel’s timeless stories into your literacy program with this comprehensive author‑study resource. Students explore a wide range of Lobel’s works from Frog and Toad to Mouse Soup, through structured comprehension activities, phonics and word‑study practice, creative writing tasks, art extensions, and hands‑on projects. This unit supports whole‑class instruction, small‑group guided reading, and individualized reading programs.

The resource includes detailed teacher notes, story summaries, reproducible worksheets, evaluation sheets, student tracking pages, and a wide range of creative activities such as puppets, riddles, posters, descriptive paragraphs, treasure maps, and comic strips. Cross‑curricular connections to science, art, and animal studies enrich the learning experience and deepen engagement.

Perfect for Grades 1–4, this author study builds foundational literacy skills, encourages creativity, and helps students connect personally with Lobel’s warm, humorous, and imaginative stories.

 


Includes:
  • Story summaries
  • Reproducible work sheets for 16 books authored by Arnold Lobel
  • Teacher suggestions
  • A resource list
  • Student tracking sheet
  • Comprehension, Word Study & Thinking About questions for each book
  • 23 addition activities in Research, Creative Writing, Drama, Art, Music
  • Answer key
Objectives
1. To familiarize students with an author and his writings and style of writing
2. To develop the literacy strategies necessary to obtain meaning from print.
3. To read to find new information about a topic deriving it from print and pictures.
4. To develop the student's ability to think and write creatively.

List of Skills

In section A. Comprehension, the children must locate details, make predictions, evaluate and analyze the character's actions and list events or actions.

In section B. Word Study, there is usually one question related to phonics and one to word study. The skills are listed as follows:

  • Phonics: blends, diphthongs, double consonants, hard and soft "g", short vowels, long vowels, "y" as a vowel
  • Word Study: adjectives, adverbs, alphabetical order, antonyms, compound words, definitions, nouns, prepositions, plurals, rhyming words, root words, suffixes (ed, ing, er, est), syllabication, synonyms, verbs (present and past tense)

A response sheet has been provided that should accommodate most responses from each of the reading activities.

Arnold Lobel Books Covered:
  1. The Bears of the Air
  2. Days With Frog and Toad
  3. Frog and Toad All Year
  4. Frog and Toad are Friends
  5. Frog and Toad Together
  6. Giant John
  7. Grasshopper on the Road
  8. Lucille
  9. The Man Who Took the Indoors Out
  10. Ming Lo Moves the Mountain
  11. Mouse Soup
  12. Mouse Tales
  13. Owl at Home
  14. Small Pig
  15. A Treeful of Pigs
  16. Uncle Elephant

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