VISITING AUTHOR NEWS
TOP 10
Ways I Can Prepare My K-3 Students for
Marie
Bradby’s Visit to Buckner
November
14, 2013
10) Play around with her website http://www.mariebradby.com/, to learn a
little bit about her and her books.
You can also
visit http://thebrownbookshelf.com/2011/02/11/day-11-marie-bradby/
to learn about how she got started in her writing career!
9)
Write about the visit (LET PARENTS IN ON IT!) in your newsletter/class website, or create a link to my website www.theliteracyconnection.weebly.com
.
8)
Listen to the newscast each morning
for information about our exciting visit from Marie Bradby.
7)
Look on her website http://www.mariebradby.com/
and read HOW I WRITE and BIOGRAPHY to build the students’
schema.
6)
Look on her website http://www.mariebradby.com/
at the BOOKS on the right side to learn about her books. Go to www.amazon.com and type Marie Bradby to read
some of the reviews of her books. THEN CHECK OUT the tub of Visiting Author
books and read them to your class.
5)
Encourage your kids to read the snippets of text on the walls while in line, walking down
the hall, etc.
4)
Try the “Writing Exercise” activity
to spark your students’ creative juices. Pretty interesting idea. See the
website for details!
&/OR
After reading More
Than Anything Else, have students write a “More Than Anything Else” story of their own.
&/OR
After reading Once
Upon a Farm have students craft poetry with a
“Once
Upon a _______ “ story of their own.
3)
Foster a connection to family and self by
listening to George Ella Lyon’s Where I’m From poem (text available, too) http://www.georgeellalyon.com/where.html
and then
reading Marie Bradby’s picture book Momma, Where Are You From? to spark student generated ideas about where
they or a family member is from. Discuss their thoughts in a share square.
Research about a family member to preserve history, and/or have students write their own _________, Where Are You
From?
2)
Use her books and poetry in your literacy workshops as the shared reading
and discussion topics! And/or use them as your fluency work for the
week!
AND THE # 1 WAY TO BE PREPARED and EXCITE KIDS…
- Use her texts
as models or mentors: read
them to understand as a reader, study her writing as you “read like a writer”
analyzing the purpose, ideas, organization, words, use of voice, conventions,
and variety of crafts.
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