Good preparation is an essential part of Island Readers & Writers programs. This page provides some examples of book related questions and activities that help prepare readers for an author and/or illustrator visit. Some ideas come from teachers and others from our Friends Over Books volunteers, staff and collaborating partners. Additional information such a biographical profiles and booklists may be found on publisher or author websites.
2012 Literary Links to Science, We Can’t All Be Rattlesnakes
- We Can’t All Be Rattlesnakes Worksheets (pdf download)
- We Can’t All Be Rattlesnakes Book Trailer (video link)
Classroom Examples
- Retelling to Enhance Oral Fluency (pdf download)
Questions Sheets
- Touch Blue, Cynthia Lord (pdf download)
- Calpurnia Tate, Jacqueline Kelly (pdf download)
- We Can’t All be Rattlesnakes, Patrick Jennings (pdf download)
- Ok for Now, Gary Schmidt (pdf download)
- Lighthouse Christmas 6 TRAIT WRITING GUIDE (pdf download)
- Lighthouse Christmas Lighthouse Investigations (pdf download)
- A Lighthouse Christmas Readers Theater Script (pdf download)
- Lighthouse Christmas Worksheet (pdf download)
2012 Big Read, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Characters in Tom Sawyer (pdf download)
- Christmas Letter from Santa (pdf download)
- Countries Visited (pdf download)
- Samuel Clemens Time Line (pdf download)
- Toys, Games, Activities (pdf download)
- Mark Twain in 60 Minutes (video)
- Tom and Beck (video)
- Reader’s Guide for the Big Read
- Teacher’s Guide for the Big Read
- Toys, Games, Activities mentioned in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
