Gail Gibbons

Books Written By Gail Gibbons
Apples Bats Beacons of Light Behold…The Dragons Behold… The Unicorns Chicks & Chickens Deserts Dinosaur Discoveries Farming Fire! Fire! Frogs From Seed To Plant Giant Pandas Halloween Is… Horses How A House Is Built Knights in Shinning Armor Marshes & Swamps Milk Makers Monarch Butterfly Owls	Penguins Pigs Polar Bears Rabbits, Rabbits & More Rabbits Sea Turtles Sharks Spiders St. Patrick’s Day Stargazers Sunken Treasure Tell Me, Tree Thanksgiving Is… The Moon Book The Planets The Pumpkin Book The Reasons For Seasons Tool Book Trains Valentine’s Day Is… Whales Wolves
There are MANY more books by Gail Gibbons.  There’s just too many to list.

 

 Author Links

 

• Official Website ~ http://www.gailgibbons.com/

• Download a Teacher’s Guide for a Year w/ Gail Gibbons ~ http://www.gailgibbons.com/teachers_guide.html

• Website with great ideas ~ http://myschoolonline.com/folder/0,1872,12026-171840-15-28700,00.html

• Biography ~ http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/departments/oipd/reading/authorsOnLine/ggibbons.html

• Video Interview ~ http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/gibbons

• Schema study from ReadingLady.com ~ http://www.readinglady.com/mosaic/tools/Author%20Schema%20Study%20plan%20by%20Ginger.pdf

• WebQuest on Gail Gibbons ~ http://www.modelschools.org/mspelemn/Authors/gibbons/gibbons.html

 

 

APPLES –

• Trumpet Club Suggestions for book ~ http://www.trumpetclub.com/primary/activities/apples.htm

• A to Z Teacherstuff.com Lessons on Apples ~ http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/Themes/Apples/

• Gail Gibbons writes that apples get ripe in the late summer or early fall. Encourage children to find out what other fruits and vegetables become ripe during the fall months.

• Pick a day for your own apple feast. Ask students to bring in some food that's made with apples. They might bring in apple pie, apple cake, apple strudel, apple sauce, or even apple salad. Encourage children to work with their parents to make the food, and to bring in the recipes to share.

• SDOE County Teacher CyberGuide ~ http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/apple/appletg.html

• Alabama Learning Exchange Lesson ~ http://alex.state.al.us/lesson_view.php?id=2014

• Ponton’s Pond Apple Study ~ http://myschoolonline.com/folder/0,1872,12026-171840-15-39122,00.html

 

BATS

• Awesome Bats Thematic Unit ~ http://comsewogue.k12.ny.us/~rstewart/k2001/Themes/bats/bats.htm

• Bats from A to Z ~ http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/Themes/Bats/index.shtml

• Bats Unit ~ http://www.manteno.k12.il.us/webquest/elementary/Science/GoingBatty/going_batty.htm

• 4 Blocks Guided Reading Lesson on Bats ~ http://www.debfourblocks.com/lessons/guided%20reading%20lesson%20using%20BATS.html

• Bat Crafts ~ http://www.allaboutnature.com/crafts/bat/

 

TELL ME TREE

• Imagine what it’s like to be a tree and write tree autobiographies.

• Write a Haiku poem about a tree ~ http://www.mrscarosclass.com/Haiku.doc

• Collect leaves;  chart and graph the leaves by students.

• Take an inventory of the number and kinds of trees on your school campus.  Research trees found in your area.

• Teacher’s Guide ~ http://www.twbookmark.com/features/children/activities/teacher_guide/tellmetree.pdf

• Students could grow orange seeds inside a zip lock bag with a damp paper towel. Once the seeds have matured, they can be planted into a milk carton

 

BEACONS OF LIGHT

• Lesson Idea ~ http://www.education-world.com/a_tsl/archives/00-1/lesson0075.shtml

• Write to tell the purpose of a lighthouse.  Would having a lighthouse in your town be useful?

• Related Literature ~ Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie

• Use the book too study about Main

  

THE MILK MAKERS

• Make a list of products that come from milk.  (Ex:  cheese, ice cream, butter, yogurt, etc.)

• Make butter and write about the experience.

• Reading Rainbow Page with Downloadable Activities ~ http://gpn.unl.edu/rainbow/video_product_template.asp?catalog%5Fname=GPN&category%5Fname=Reading+Rainbow&product%5Fid=126%2E0032V

• Make a food chain titled “From Cow to Me”

• Dairy food and the new food pyramid ~ http://www.mypyramid.gov/pyramid/milk.html

 

DINOSAUR DISCOVERIES

• Compare and Contrast dinosaurs from the story. 

 

SUNKEN TREASURE

• Write about treasures you’d like to find.

• Reading Rainbow Downloadable Teacher Guide ~ http://gpn.unl.edu/rainbow/video_product_template.asp?catalog%5Fname=GPN&category%5Fname=Reading+Rainbow&product%5Fid=126%2E0070V

• Students could research the Titanic and write about it.

• Cloze activity ~ http://web.dps.k12.va.us/ParkAve/Sunkenc.htm

• Have the students create their own authentic treasure map which will lead to a favorite place on the playground or in a similar park (e.g. a special tree, their favorite swing, a fountain, their secret fort, etc.) Find sample maps (or illustrations of them) to use as models and create distressed paper by staining white butcher paper with tea. Use this paper for drawing a detailed map, and finish it by curling the edges with a pencil.

• Use this book to find information about Florida.

 

WOLVES

• Spelling & Vocabulary Resources ~ http://www.murrieta.k12.ca.us/alta/grade3/wolves/

 

HOW A HOUSE IS BUILT

• Vocabulary Worksheets ~ http://www.lexile.com/PowerV/How%20a%20House%20is%20Built.pdf

• Write a How To paragraph retelling the story.

 

THE SEASONS OF ARNOLD’S APPLE TREE

• Lesson from Georgia Connections ~ http://www.glc.k12.ga.us/BuilderV03/LPTools/LPShared/lpdisplay.asp?LPID=12415

 

 

THE MOON BOOK

• Phases of the Moon WebQuest ~ http://coe.west.asu.edu/students/phanover/moon_webquest_home.htm

• On black construction paper, students could draw the phases of the moon with white crayon or chalk.

 

SPIDERS

• Spider WebQuest ~ http://www.manteno5.org/lviall/webquest.htm

 

RECYCLE

• The class could start their own recycling process.  Students could bring in trash from home and the students could separate it and take it to the proper facility.