Learning Goal: Understand the job of the author and the illustrator.

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Activities:

• Review the parts of a book
• Watch a video explaining the job of the author and illustrator.
• Listen to a story and think about what the author and the illustrator did.
• Choose books - find the names of the author and illustrator. Tell a friend what they did in making the story.

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Review the Parts of a Book

Authors and Illustrators

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What Do Authors Do?

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What Do Illustrators Do?

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How do authors and illustrators

work together?

You Are Not Small

Think about a flower as you would see it and then how an ant would see it.

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Listen to the story.

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Carefully examine the illustrations.

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Think about the jobs of the author and the illustrator.

Tell a friend something interesting that the author and/or illustrator did?

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Choose a library book.

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Identify the author and the illustrator.

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Think about what each person contributed to the book.

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Color the picture. On the back, draw a picture of something else that won such as a basketball or a golf ball or sneakers. Make your own story to go with it.

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There was a young kindergarten student who swallowed a

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Listen to the story

The Plot Chickens.

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Carefully examine the illustrations.

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Think about the roles of the author and the illustrator.

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SlidesCarnival icons are editable shapes.

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This means that you can:

• Resize them without losing quality.
• Change fill color and opacity.

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Isn’t that nice? :)

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Examples:

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