Mo Willems' Author Study

Mo Willems is extraordinary! The children absolutely LOVE studying him and reading his books over and over again.  

http://www.authorsasheroes.org/2013/01/mo-willems-author-study.html

Above is an example of the culminating Mo Willems "We Can" anchor chart.  This is the last thing created at the end of an author study. Prior to this we read aloud all of the books whole group and created the "we noticed" chart.  (See Keiko Kasza, Emily Gravett, or Steven Layne for an example) 

After studying an author whole group, we always have fun with our author during Literacy Stations or independent reading/writing time.  Below are some of the activities that we did to reinforce reading and writing skills.

Click here for the Choiceboard of the four activities we created.

Some students chose to write their own Pigeon comic story.  We talked about how we can infer the pigeons feelings by the picture and word clues.  We also noticed that the pigeon often wanted something in each of the stories.  We brainstormed other things that he could want and created stories and mini comic books like Mo Willems.

Click here for the Pigeon Has Many Feelings reproducible



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This is an example of trying to draw the pigeon showing many different emotions.

We also practiced reading the Piggie and Elephant books with great expression using the popsicle stick puppets.


Writing a letter to Mo Willems telling him about our favorite book was also a big hit!

Click here for the letter template to Mo Willems.

                            WE LOVE MO WILLEMS!!!