Reading with the Kids at Baily Elementary School Author Study Grades 2-4

By Kathleen Rodgers

Enter the grade three classroom at Bailey Elementary School and prepare to be amused. The school secretary is a gremlin, the substitute janitor is Santa Claus, a witch teaches gymnastics, and the homeroom teacher is a vampire!

Use this resource to help your students develop the literacy strategies necessary for them to derive meaning from print, read to find new information about a topic, and think and write creatively, all using the Bailey kids chapter books as a springboard.

Includes:

Story summariesReproducible work sheets for 25 Bailey Kids booksTeacher suggestionsA resource listStudent tracking sheetAnswer key

Objectives

1. To familiarize students with an author and her writings and style of writing.

2. To develop literacy strategies necessary to obtain meaning from print.

3. To read to find new information about a topic deriving it from print and pictures.

4. To develop the student's ability to think and write creatively.

Kids at Baily Elementary titles:

1. Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots

2. Werewolves Don't Go to Summer Camp

3. Santa Claus Doesn't Mop Floors

4. Leprechauns Don't Play Basketball

5. Ghosts Don't Eat Potato Chips

6. Frankenstein Doesn't Plant Petunias

7. Aliens Don't Wear Braces

8. Genies Don't Ride Bicycles

9. Pirates Don't Wear Sunglasses

1O. Witches Don't Do Backflips

11. Skeletons Don't Play Tubas

12. Cupid Doesn't Flip Hamburgers

13. Gremlins Don't Chew Bubble Gum

14. Monsters Don't Scuba Dive

15. Zombies Don't Play Soccer

16. Dracula Doesn't Drink Lemonade

17. Elves Don't Wear Hard Hats

18. Martians Don't Take Temperatures

19. Gargoyles Don't Drive School Buses

20. Wizards Don't Need Computers

21. Mummies Don't Coach Softball

22. Cyclops Doesn't Roller-Skate

23. Angels Don't Know Karate

24. Dragons Don't Cook Pizza

25. Bigfoot Doesn't Square Dance

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550354795
• ISBN13: 9781550354799
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: On the Mark Press
• Length: 106 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 11.0"