Unit Plan

Pull these books (note if you have some in Guided Reading pull them also)

Mr. Popper's Penguins              Richard Atwater
Freckle Juice                                Judy Blume
A Lion to Guard Us                     Clyde Bulla
Tornado                                       Betsy Byars
Muggie Maggie                           Beverly Cleary
Molly's Pilgrim                             Barbara Cohen
My Father's Dragon                     Ruth Stiles Gannet
Boxcar Children                           Gertrude Warner
Charlotte's Web                           E.B. White
Little House in the Big Woods    Laura Ingalls Wilder

Link to the Battle of the Books trailers

Day 1
What is a Little Free Library? (Lesson for 2nd-4th)
          here is the flipchart that accompanies that lesson

Day 2-3
3rd Grade Lesson Plans for BCCCA

Possible Discussion Questions

Beverly Cleary said that when she went to school she didn't have time to read, all she did was answer questions about books and do book reports.  Do you have time to read in your class?  Do you think you should have more quiet time to read?

Beverly Cleary mentioned that she was lucky that she was a child before radio and tv because her mother read aloud to her and her father every night.  Do you agree that she was lucky?

Website

To Read Aloud
10 Interesting Things to Know about Violet Mackerel pdf download

• She was named after a small purple
flower with a very lovely smell.
• In French, which is the language her 
mum is learning, Violet’s name is 
Violette.
• Her favourite stone is moonstone, and 
 she has one of her own that she 
 sometimes puts under her pillow.
• She has the sort of hair that even if you 
comb and comb, it still looks a bit messy.
• As well as being Violet’s surname, 
mackerel is also a kind of fish which lays 
around a million eggs at one time.

• Violet would quite like to have a
smallish grey kitten of her own.
• Just in case she ever does get a kitten, 
she has a whole page of ideas for names 
written in one of her notebooks.
• When she is older Violet would like to 
be an archaeologist, but she also thinks it 
might be quite interesting to be a potter, a 
singer, a farmer, a marine biologist and a 
planter of trees. 
• At school she especially likes creative 
writing, painting, science and news.
• Apart from violets, her favourite flowers 
are fuchsias because they look a bit like 
tiny dancers with lots of feet.