First grade students are learning about the author and illustrator Marc Brown by visiting three different stations in the library.
Watch the video below of a real aardvark. Do you think he looks like Arthur as seen on the cover of the book to the left? Our students learned that Arthur's appearance has drastically changed since the first Arthur book was published in 1976. In the first few books, Arthur and his entire family resembled the aardvark in the video below. Why do you think Marc Brown decided to change Arthur's appearance?
Below are the three stations students visited.
Station 1: Students are selecting character and setting cards and writing stories based on the cards they chose.
Station 2: Students are drawing Arthur using Let's Draw Arthur cards as a guide.
Station 3: Students are browsing http://pbskids.org/arthur/ to learn more about the characters and settings that appear in Marc Brown's books.
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