Getting students excited about Helen Lester! Chris Rabold Northwest Local School District Kings Mills workshop Getting Students excited about Helen Lester K-5 Language Arts Author visit Helen Lester is going to be here soon! Reading some of her books to your students will help them gain a familiarity with her writing style. As you can see, she's written many to choose from: A Porcupine Named Fluffy Author : a True Story Hooway for Wodney Wat It Wasn't My Fault Listen, Buddy Me First Pookins Gets Her Way Princess Penelope's Parrot Score One For the Sloths Something Might Happen Tacky and the Emperor Tacky in Trouble Tacky the Penguin Tackylocks and the Three Bears The Wizard, the Fairy, and the Magic Chicken Three Cheers for Tacky One book is available as an audio book: Tacky the Penguin (audio cassette; Houghlin Mifflin, 1993) Once the students are familiar with her works, consider these activities: Have students read the following reviews of Helen's books. Then, have the students write their own summaries or reviews of some other titles. SOMETHING MIGHT HAPPEN (Book). By: Roback, Diane; Brown, Jennifer M.; Bean, Joy; Zaleski, Jeff. Publishers Weekly, 9/1/2003, Vol. 250 Issue 35, p89, 1/5p; (AN 10711127) Tackylocks and the Three Bears (Book). By: Gawron, Marlene; Jones, Trevelyn E.; Toth, Luann; Charnizon, Marlene; Grabarek, Daryl; Larkins, Jeanne. School Library Journal, Sep2002, Vol. 48 Issue 9, p197, 2p; (AN 7295135) Score One for the Sloths (Book Review). By: Gibson, Robin L.. School Library Journal, Oct2001, Vol. 47 Issue 10, p123, 2p; (AN 5315428) Tacky the Penguin (Book Review). By: Wheatley, Bonnie. School Library Journal, Apr88, Vol. 34 Issue 8, p82, 1/8p; (AN 5734504) Try reader's theater. Have students act out one of Helen Lester's books with these ready to print scripts. Adobe Acrobat is required to download and read this material. A Porcupine Named Fluffy Hooway for Wodney Wat Listen Buddy Tacky the Penguin The kids can't get enough? Here are more in-depth, ready to use lesson plans for several of the titles. Ohio Standards based lesson plans on leading students through a researched based Webquest using Tacky the Penguin. Standards based lesson plan includes activities for before, during, and after reading Hooway for Wodney Wat. Although the standards used are from Kansas, they correlate to Ohio's Standards and can easily be adapted. Lesson Plan on A Porcupine Named Fluffy with vocabulary, open-ended questions, and activities.