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Elaine Segner
Adapted from If you give... Book Series by Kaitlin Burkhardt
2nd Grade
(http://www.boncherry.com/blog/2010/03/02/dr-seuss-birthday-2010-quotes-and-celebration-ideas/)
Standards
2nd Grade Reading: Literature Standard 4
Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes,
repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
2nd Grade Language Arts: Writing Standard 6
With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to
produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.
Tasks
Process
While helping Dr. Seuss you will have three different roles or jobs. You will be a
Character Researcher
Writer and a
Illustrator
You will be responsible for completing these jobs in order to create your own book.
Step 1:
Character Researcher- Good authors use characters to tell their stories. A character
is a person, place, or thing that does the actions or is acted upon in the story.
To create your character everyone will read the following Dr. Seuss books and
learn about the characters that Dr. Seuss used
1. The Cat in the Hat
2. The Sneetches
3. The Lorax
4. Horton Hears a Who
Brainstorm your story- Think about your story and how you will include them in your
story. Your story needs to have a beginning, middle, and end. Use the following
graphic organizer to help you create your story with a beginning, middle, and end.
Step 4:
Create a book that resembles Dr. Seusss stories. You will complete your book on
the computer using our classroom book template. Then you will color pictures for
your book and we will scan your pictures into the book.
Book needs to contain:
A minimum of 5-Pages
A main character that Dr. Seuss has not used before.
At least 6 Rhyming Words
A beginning, middle, and end
Colorful Drawings on each Page
Step 5:
Present and read your books to the class.
Resources
http://www.seussville.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DscA9YEIXGg
http://www.poetry4kids.com/modules.php?name=Rhymes
The following Dr. Seuss Books
1. The Cat in the Hat
2. The Sneetches
3. The Lorax
4. Horton Hears a Who
(These books will be available in class or at the school library)
Evaluation
Character
Development
Keep Trying
(1point)
No character with
a name.
Character is not
mentioned
throughout the
story.
Almost There (2
points)
Character has a
name but little
personality is
shown. Character
is slightly
mentioned
throughout story.
Good (3 points)
Character is well
defined;
character has a
name and a
personality.
Character is
mentioned
throughout story.
6 rhyming words
are used in the
story.
All three parts of
the story structure
are present.
Story is five
pages or longer.
All pages are
illustrated
Score:
Conclusion
Wonderful Job Authors!! Remember we will be reading our stories in
front of the classroom next week. I hope you learned how authors create
a book and that it takes a variety of words and phrases to make the
story interesting. Rhymes and other words helped make our stories more
interesting.
Remember that Dr. Seuss said
The more that you read, the more things
you will know. The more that you learn the
more places you'll go.
Continue the great work!