Author Study
Using the websites given and books find the following information about your author: - Where does your author live? - What is your author’s birthdate? - What books did your author write? - Who are some of your author’s characters? - Write a summary of two of your author’s books that you have read. - What are some interesting things about your author? - Any other cool information you found about your author or his/her books After finding out the information about your author, create a visual using the information you found. Some suggestions: - Power Point - Poster - Book Bag - Brochure - If you have another idea let me know **Remember - If you can’t find all of the information about your author ask me for help to find other websites that you can use to find your information.** | Here is a list of authors that we will be researching during this project:
Chris Vans Allsburg - http://www.chrisvanallsburg.com/flash.html Patricia Polacco - http://www.patriciapolacco.com/ Eric Carle - http://www.eric-carle.com/home.html Jack Prelutsky - http://www.jackprelutsky.com/ Stan & Jan Berenstain - http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=2276 http://www.berenstainbears.com/ Judy Blume - http://www.judyblume.com/ Kevin Henkes - http://www.kevinhenkes.com/ Beverly Cleary - http://www.beverlycleary.com/ Tomie DePaola - http://www.tomie.com/main.html Peggy Parish - http://www.kidsreads.com/series/series-amelia-author.asp Mercer Mayer - http://www.yourlibrary.ws/childrens_webpage/e-author122000.htm Arnold Lobel - http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/lobel.html Dr. Seuss - http://www.seussville.com/ Bill Peet - http://www.billpeet.net/ Marc Brown - http://marcbrownstudios.com/ Shel Silverstein - http://www.shelsilverstein.com/indexSite.html Jan Brett - http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=1500 Gail Gibbons - http://www.gailgibbons.com/ |