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You have everything you need to have a successful author study unit on Patricia Polacco! As students explore Patricia Polacco books, they will be learning skills such as character traits, theme, setting, sequencing and summarizing, story plot, and more! The unit is interactive and invites cooperative learning and critical thinking.
The unit also includes a 33 piece, full-color Bulletin Board Set to use throughout your unit! Add book cover pictures up after reading it with the class, display theme cards to remind students of what they are learning, and get students excited with Fun Facts About Patricia Polacco. To help teach each lesson there is a SMARTBoard presentation with a total of 14 slides that go hand-in-hand with the student handouts. If you do not have a SMARTBoard, you can simply create these charts with PowerPoint or on large chart paper as they are simple and easy to create.
There are a total of 12 Lessons plus a response to literature writing piece. The writing piece requires students to apply everything they have learned throughout the unit and bring it together in a guided format.
The unit takes about 3 weeks to complete, plus the response to literature (optional), depending the speed of your class. The lessons include the use of the SMARTBoard, read-alouds, small group activities and more! The documents are kept in a zip file. Be sure to check out the extensive sample to see the activity sheets, SMARTBoard slides, Bulletin Board Set, and more!
The unit also includes a 33 piece, full-color Bulletin Board Set to use throughout your unit! Add book cover pictures up after reading it with the class, display theme cards to remind students of what they are learning, and get students excited with Fun Facts About Patricia Polacco. To help teach each lesson there is a SMARTBoard presentation with a total of 14 slides that go hand-in-hand with the student handouts. If you do not have a SMARTBoard, you can simply create these charts with PowerPoint or on large chart paper as they are simple and easy to create.
There are a total of 12 Lessons plus a response to literature writing piece. The writing piece requires students to apply everything they have learned throughout the unit and bring it together in a guided format.
The unit takes about 3 weeks to complete, plus the response to literature (optional), depending the speed of your class. The lessons include the use of the SMARTBoard, read-alouds, small group activities and more! The documents are kept in a zip file. Be sure to check out the extensive sample to see the activity sheets, SMARTBoard slides, Bulletin Board Set, and more!
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CynthiaBirch
Great unit! Thank you!
May 18, 2013 
amynick13
Another great unit! Your work is so thorough and meaningful! Thank you :)
May 18, 2013
Brenda Vaughn
Great addition to my unit for next year.
May 7, 2013
fisherv
This is the best unit I've bought fro tpt
May 6, 2013
hdcarr
This was an excellent unit! I was so excited to come across it because it fit perfectly into the third grade common core. I am only on day 3 of the unit, but the kids are having a blast while learning about Polacco. Thank you so much!
April 17, 2013
arippy
Trying this next week. Thanks for the detailed, easy to follow plans!!!
April 11, 2013
frachc4295
Can't wait to try it!
March 29, 2013
auser
LOVE the detailed plans.
March 20, 2013
chickenleggz
Thank you :)
February 18, 2013
lamorrison283
I am a fan of Patricia Polacco and can't wait to start this unit!! Very well organized!!
February 17, 2013
ntgillen
The functionality is superb! The "cute" makes it that much more enjoyable! I can't wait to start this unit!
Thank you Rachael!
Thank you Rachael!
February 10, 2013
tmrocque
Very excited to start my author study unit this month. Thank you for this awesome resource.
February 5, 2013
jennlp2004
This is fantastic!
January 26, 2013
jmvb2822
Amazing!!! Thank you!
January 13, 2013
Nicole Smith
This is an amazing resource. Thanks so much!
January 7, 2013
lasanders
I really love your unit and plan on starting it tomorrow in my classroom. Just wondering about your choice of two books...The Lemonade Stand and Mr. Lincoln...both of these deal with some pretty difficult issues for 3rd grade. Patricia Polacco is a wonderful author and I love her books. Thanks for all the time you put into your unit!
January 6, 2013
Rachael Parlett (TpT Seller)
Hi there! When I did this author study, it was with 4th graders, so they were one year older which I think makes a difference in their ability to process the difficult topics, particularly with The Lemonade Club. I also think Polacco did an excellent job talking about a tough topic in a way that was appropriate for students. As for Mr. Lincoln, I chose that book because I taught in the city and had several students who I thought could benefit from the lesson of turning hatred into something good as well as learning that some of the things that they learned from their parents wasn't necessarily right (like prejudice and hatred). However, if you think these topics are too mature for your students, the books can be easily left out of the author study without effecting the rest of the content! Thanks for purchasing this unit and I hope you and your students love it! Thanks!!
January 6, 2013
Kristy Christopher
Great Author study, I can not wait to use it!!
January 4, 2013
CorpusK
My fourth graders love this author, and your activities are perfect!
December 31, 2012
Stephanie Ann (TpT Seller)
love this...can't wait to try it!
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December 24, 2012
TinaKubi
This was a nice author study. Be sure to red her books through as some of books include "heavy" topics of discussion fro chuildren.
December 18, 2012
Rachael Parlett (TpT Seller)
Thanks for the heads up for other teachers! You're right, Patricia Polacco, as a rule, writes many books that include more mature themed topics. She does an amazing job, though, talking about those issues with sensitivity towards kids! Thanks for the feedback!
December 18, 2012
addiehl1
looks great cant wait to get started
December 13, 2012
iteachto3
wonderful - just what I was looking for.
December 9, 2012
DLBoyd
I love this unit.
December 2, 2012
tonipeterson
Patricia Polacco is one of my favorite authors. We always enjoy our study of her books and this is a TERRIFIC resource for our author study. Lots of great ideas that my students are sure to love.
November 15, 2012
Rachael Parlett (TpT Seller)
Thanks so much for your positive feedback! She is one of my favorite authors too!
November 15, 2012
carrielsmith
Love adding this to my unit on this author.
October 24, 2012
jettartluv
A great lesson!!!!
October 20, 2012
goldageiger
This is such a complete and thorough unit. Lesson guidelines are clear and graphic organizers are well done. Thanks for such a useful tool.
October 16, 2012
amy5580
Awesome ways to incorpoate picture books with my 5th Graders!
October 11, 2012
asismj
I can't wait to use this with my enrichment class in the morning. I teach 4th grade and want to make the enrichment time fun for both me and the kids by teaching with picture books.
September 30, 2012
jennalynna
Awesome!!!!!
September 21, 2012
Elizabeth Stocker (TpT Seller)
This has been a great way to do responsive writing in the classroom with many different leveled readers.
September 9, 2012
danalchurch
Using this right now and love it!!! Thanks!!!
September 5, 2012
brittanyjam
Best Patricia Polacco unit I have seen or used.
September 4, 2012
goetzme
I am doing this author study with my students. The Smart Board slides were amazing. Thanks!
August 29, 2012
Morah (TpT Seller)
Looking forward to using this in my classroom in conjunction with our Patricia Polacco unit!
August 29, 2012
dpkaren
Patricia Polacco has always been one of my favorite children's authors. Years ago i had the opportunity to attend a workshop where she spoke. I look forward to introducing her to my 4th graders.
August 14, 2012
Rachael Parlett (TpT Seller)
Wow! That must have been awesome to see Patricia Polacco in person! I'm jealous! She's such a great author and kids can really relate to her! Enjoy the unit!
August 15, 2012
Foreman Teaches (TpT Seller)
I look forward to using your author study in my 4th grade classroom. I really love that Smartboard files were included. I wish I could find more units like this one.
August 13, 2012
Rachael Parlett (TpT Seller)
Patricia Polacco is one of my favorite authors! I'm sure your students will love the stories and activities! Enjoy!
August 14, 2012
sdlerch
I'm so excited about finding your store and your resources!! I can't wait to try out an author study for the first time this year. Thank you for making such a comprehensive resource.
August 13, 2012
Jessica McKeever (TpT Seller)
Just AMAZING!!!! I am super excited about this author study!
August 12, 2012
Samantharuby9
This was an amazing Unit
August 4, 2012
munger
This resource will be helpful in planning my Patricia Polacco author study. Thanks!
July 3, 2012
knoxt
This was a great resource. I loved it and will used it over and over. Thanks for taking the time to make it. LOVED IT!
June 14, 2012
jocolson
My students and I loved this author study. Can't wait to use it again next year!
June 13, 2012
llsmith29
Loved using this author study! Thank you
June 3, 2012
cselover
Although some of the materials were a little advanced for my students, it was easy to modify for my class. They loved the fun facts!!
May 26, 2012
jusinski
Just what I needed. Great resource!
May 26, 2012
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ntgillen
Rachael:
Your work has come highly recommended by some of my "teachers in the trenches"! I just purchased this author study and can't wait to get started after our mid winter recess. I do not have my copy of Thundercake at home but wonder if there isn't a typo on page 32. The first direction says "Place the cake in the over" I believe it should be Place the cake in the oven. Since this is a pdf and I can't change, any chance I could get the corrected page? If indeed it needs to be corrected?
Many thanks
Your work has come highly recommended by some of my "teachers in the trenches"! I just purchased this author study and can't wait to get started after our mid winter recess. I do not have my copy of Thundercake at home but wonder if there isn't a typo on page 32. The first direction says "Place the cake in the over" I believe it should be Place the cake in the oven. Since this is a pdf and I can't change, any chance I could get the corrected page? If indeed it needs to be corrected?
Many thanks
February 9, 2013
Beth Cartlidge
Hi,
I just purchased your Patricia Polacco study and love it :) However I do not have a smartboard and understand that I need to recreate the slides. But I can't open it to view in order to recreate! Do you have any suggestions?
Thanks,
Beth
I just purchased your Patricia Polacco study and love it :) However I do not have a smartboard and understand that I need to recreate the slides. But I can't open it to view in order to recreate! Do you have any suggestions?
Thanks,
Beth
January 20, 2012
Rachael Parlett (TpT Seller)
Hi Beth!
Thanks for your purchase and I'm glad you love the unit. I'm sorry you don't have a smartboard...every teacher should have that priviledge! I'd be happy to send you screen shots (pictures of the actual slide) of all the slides so that you can have the pictures in a PDF document and just print it out and have as part of your files. I would just need your email so that I can send it to you directly. Does that make sense? Let me know and thanks again!
Thanks for your purchase and I'm glad you love the unit. I'm sorry you don't have a smartboard...every teacher should have that priviledge! I'd be happy to send you screen shots (pictures of the actual slide) of all the slides so that you can have the pictures in a PDF document and just print it out and have as part of your files. I would just need your email so that I can send it to you directly. Does that make sense? Let me know and thanks again!
January 20, 2012
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