1. The students will locate, access and read books written by an author.

2. The students will locate, access, and read biographical information about the author.

3. The students will complete a graphic organizer and write a paragraph about the author.

4. The student will type the paragraph using word processing software.

5. The students will create a project and give a presentation about their author.

• graphic organizer (see included Word document);
• list of author Websites; magazines with biographical information on authors; handouts with ideas for creative projects (how to make dioramas, mystery clue posters, character puppets, characters from soda bottles, etc. - see teacher's magazines);
• rubric (see included Word document);
• completed newsletters (see procedure #8 below)

CLASS #1

1. Together, the teachers and students will brainstorm and make a list of children's authors.

2. Student will choose an author from the list for an author study.

3. Students will use OPAC to search and locate 2 - 3 picture books or 1 - 2 chapter books written by their author.

4. Each student will search and locate biographical information about their author using Websites, a biography or magazines.

AT HOME

5. Students will read their books and biographical information at home..

CLASS #2

6. The students will a complete graphic organizer about their author. (see included word document)

7. Using the information from the graphic organizer, the students will write a paragraph about why they are saluting their author.

8. The students will type his/her paragraph in a word processing program and save to a disk. The teacher will later compile each paragraph into a newsletter or booklet to be presented to each student at the end of this unit.

AT HOME 9.

The students will create a project about his/her author or one of the author's books -diorama; mystery clue poster; book character puppet etc. (see PowerPoint)

CLASS #3

10. The students will give an oral presentation to the class talking about their author or reading the paragraph they wrote. Students may wish to dress up as the author or a character from a book by their author. They will also talk briefly about the project he/she created.

11. The teacher will present each student with a completed newsletter or booklet.

12. Have the students share their work by making a display of their work for others to see perhaps at a Family Literacy Event such as a Language Arts Fair !