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Noticings:


Group Members: _________________________________ _______________________________________________________

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.


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


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


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


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


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


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…




Name: ___________________________________

My Leo Lionni Story My Title: _________________________________

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Story Map Book: _______________________________ Author: ______________________________

Main Character Setting

Beginning Middle End


Name: ___________________________________



Lesson Problem Solution


Name: ___________________________________



Problem Solution Life lesson learned: ______________________ _____________________________________


Name: ___________________________________

Character Counts! Book: _______________________________ Author: ______________________________ Main Character: _______________________

Character Trait: __________ Character Trait: __________

Character Trait: __________ Character Trait: __________


Name: ___________________________________

Words! Words! Words! Word

Meaning

Picture

Word

Meaning

Picture

Word

Meaning

Picture


Name: ___________________________________

Words! Words! Words!

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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Name: ___________________________________

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: ______________________________


Name: ___________________________________

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



Name: ___________________________________

Person, Place or Thing Action Words

Describing Words



Name: ___________________________________

Person Place Thing

It’s Mine! Noun Sort


frog toad

dawn dusk

peace weeds

fright swarms


quibbled leaped

appeared bickering

croaked rumble

clung disappear


huddled subsided

recognized suddenly

defiantly desperately

gently joyfully


smooth leafy

quarrelsome endless

distant slippery

trembling sandy


Name: ___________________________________

Focus on: Adject ives Word

Meaning

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Word

Meaning

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Meaning

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Book:


Name: ___________________________________

Frederick’s Rhyming Words Word #1 Word #2

ice nice

June moon

sky I

showers flowers

wheat feet

four more

poet *know it


Name: ___________________________________

Frederick’s Rhyming Words Word #1 Word #2

ice

June

sky

showers

wheat

four

poet


where stone

wall field

stood night

they sun


cold said

long snow

berries corn

eyes blue


Name: ___________________________________

Focus on: Rhyming Words

The word is: A word that rhymes is: Is it the same word family?


Name: ___________________________________

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?


Book:


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:


a medusa made of rainbow jelly

strange fish pulled by an invisible thread

a lobster who walked about like a water moving

machine


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

remember


Name: ___________________________________

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?


Book:


Name: ___________________________________

Focus on: Verb Tense Past Tense Verbs Present Tense Verbs


hatched crawled

walked grew

came saw

see said


decided walk

met stand

hang learn

asked replied


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need worked

help learned

look frowned

repeated go


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turned looked

smiled


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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

someone.


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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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Lesson Problem Solution


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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