Teaching With Favorite Leo Lionni Books (Grades K-2) [Paperback]

Kathleen M. Hollenbeck (Author)

Book Description

Frederick, Swimmy, Fish Is Fish . . . Use the timeless tales of Leo Lionni to help children learn ways to handle difficult situations, develop cooperative skills, and build self-esteem. This idea-packed resource of creative and engaging activities, games, art projects, and hands-on reproducibles will help children experience and extend the messages in favorite Leo Lionni books. Includes lessons that explore story elements, build vocabulary, teach descriptive writing, extend to math, science, social studies, and more. For use with Grades K-2.

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About the Author

Kathleen M. Hollenbeck has written several picture books for children and numerous curriculum resource materials for teachers. She is the author of Exploring Our World: Neighborhoods and Communities and Fresh & Fun: Thanksgiving (Scholastic Teaching Resources). Kathleen lives in Coventry, Rhode Island with her husband and their three children.

Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Teaching Resources (December 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0439043883
• ISBN-13: 978-0439043885
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.2 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #762,486 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For parents and teachers, March 25, 2000

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This review is from: Teaching With Favorite Leo Lionni Books (Grades K-2) (Paperback)

This book has a resource of activities to help children experience and extend the stories of Leo Lionni. Initially, I bought this book because I have several Leo Lionni's books, but after reviewing this book I realize that it will be useful with other books as well. This book is an excellent book to own for teachers and parents. The activities in this book will demonstrate problem-solving, sharing, kindness, conflict resolution and generosity. Many of the activities have little or no cost, except the cost of making copies for the students. This book has given me new ideas to use in my classroom, and with my children at home. I am very pleased with this book and I am confident that this book will pay for itself after one use.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great for author studies, October 15, 2002

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kellybell77 (Citrus Springs, Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teaching With Favorite Leo Lionni Books (Grades K-2) (Paperback)

I bought this book when taking a graduate in literacy class on childrens literature. I found this a great help as I was putting together an author study about Leo Lionni. I love Leo's work and was able to intergrate his stories with other subject areas through the use of the activities into this book. His stories teach about getting along and friendship and can aide in creating a classroom environment. If you are a k-2 teacher creating an author study, you will have more hten what you need from this book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Story Stretcher, August 1, 2005

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This review is from: Teaching With Favorite Leo Lionni Books (Grades K-2) (Paperback)

This book helps you bring more to the story. Each book has a message or theme. Each story has an activity go go with the book; language arts, crafts, games. Develops thinking skills in young children.