David Wiesner
Lesson plans for Tuesday and other books
|Biography and Background|
|June 29, 1999|
|Flotsam|
|Tuesday|
David Wiesner
The author's official site.
Beachcoming with David Wiesner
Author interview related to his book Flotsam.
Predicting Story Outcomes
Students will be able to make predictions by analytically listening to the reading of June 29, 1999.
Flotsam
The book's official site
Applying Question-Answer Relationships to Pictures
In this multisession lesson designed for struggling readers, students are guided through a viewing of David Wiesner’s Tuesday, a wordless picture book. As students view the images, they are asked four different types of questions about the pictures. The questions range in difficulty from those with answers that can be found in the text to those that require inferences. Students learn to categorize questions by the four question types and use pictures to help them better understand a story.
Fun-Loving Frogs
During this lesson students will use their imaginations and writing skills to write a story from a wordless picture book, Tuesday, by David Wiesner. They will work in pairs and write text to go along with the pictures. They will also view a website to learn facts about frogs.
Tuesday by David Wiesner
A review and suggestions for classroom activities.
Picture This!
Working with partners, students use sticky notes as they write stories to accompany picture books. This activity will work with many picture books.
Weird Animal Adventures
Inspired by the wordless animal adventures found on the pages of David Wiesner's Tuesday, student writers will plan an original story about a group of animals weird adventure that happens after dark. Unlike Wiesner's text, student stories will be built from words that focus on interesting details. Before drafting, each student will pre-plan the story's beginning, middle, and end. This lesson focuses on organization and idea development.
