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Filed under: Nonfiction Picture Books, Picture Books

About Erika Thulin Dawes
Erika is a professor of language and literacy at Lesley University. A former classroom teacher, reading specialist, and literacy supervisor, she now teaches courses in children’s literature, early literacy, and literacy methods. Erika is the co-author of Learning to Write with Purpose, Teaching with Text Sets, and Teaching to Complexity.
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We used this book (and a guest appearance by the author) to inspire a writing project with our students. The students made paper, wrote a cinquain poem about an animal, and then used the paper to create the animals habitat in popup format (during Art class). The students were very motivated in each stage of this process and the results are fabulous!
Our third graders used this book (and a visit from the author) to inspire a creative writing project. The students visited with the author, made paper, wrote an animal cinquain, and then used the paper to create the animal and its habitat in pop-up format (during Art Class). The students were super motivated throughout the process and the results were fabulous!
Jocelyn, this sounds like a wonderful experience. Thank you for reading The Classroom Bookshelf and for adding to our teaching ideas!