Eric Carle Author Study

About this curriculum

Kids love The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Very Busy Spider, The Very Quiet Cricket and many other stories by Eric Carle! Here is a resource to help your students develop the literacy strategies necessary for them to derive meaning from print and illustrations, read to find new information about a topic, and think and write creatively all using books of Eric Carle as a springboard. Students will: become familiar with an author, his writings and style of writing identify and describe elements of stories make inferences while reading. make judgements about what they read on the basis of evidence. make predictions while reading a narrative piece on the basis of evidence. develop the ability to think and write creatively. List of Skills The questions in the Comprehension section incorporate some of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: knowledge, comprehension, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. The skills used in the Word Study include adjectives, alphabetical order, antonyms, blends, classification of words (parts of a plant, colors, body parts), compound wo…