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 IRW Worksheets for Chris Van Dusen’s If I Built a House

• If I Built a House Worksheet (pdf download)

2012 IRW Worksheets for Kathy Lasky’s Guardians

• Kathy Lasky’s Guardians Worksheet (pdf download)

2012 IRW Worksheets for Cynthia Lord’s Rules & Touch Blue

• Cynthia Lord’s Rules Worksheet (pdf download)
• Cynthia Lord’s Touch Blue Worksheet  (pdf download)

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), 2010
• 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)