Leo Lionni’s books are known for teaching students important life lessons. We are so excited to add A Color of His Own to our Starts With a Story Collection. While this book is short and simple, it lends itself to great discussion and teaching a variety of skills. We love that this book has themes of friendship and appreciating and accepting individuality. - Jodi and the Starts With a Story Team
SUMMARY
All animals have their own color, except chameleons. The chameleon in this book is tired of always changing colors, and wants to find a color of his own. He attempts to remain on a leaf forever so he does not change color, but the leaf changes color itself and eventually falls off the branch.
After a long cold winter, the chameleon ventures out into the grass when spring comes. He meets an older chameleon and asks if they will ever have a color of their own. The older chameleon suggests that the two stay together forever. Although they will change color, they will always be the same color as each other. This causes the chameleons to live a much happier life.
USE THIS BOOK TO TEACH:
There is so much you can teach with A Color of His Own. Our book companion for this story addresses a number of reading comprehension skills, integrates a variety of writing styles and introduces grammar and social emotional learning concepts. Here is a sneak peak at some of the different lessons you can use this book to teach.
- This book lends itself to a lesson on theme. Discuss the theme of the story with students and have them identify details that help determine the theme.
- Practice sequencing the events of the story, this is an important reading comprehension skill that demonstrates students' understanding of the text.
- Integrate informational writing by asking students to write about chameleons.
- Allow students to get creative and continue writing the story.
- Teach a lesson on homophones using examples from the book.
- Review plural nouns and adjectives.
- Teach a lesson on the importance of individuality.
NO-PREP PRINTABLE ACTIVITIES:
If you are looking for “ready to go” activities for the first day of school, be sure to check out the book companion. With it you’ll receive all of the following resources to align with this specific book:
- comprehension questions
- 30 writing prompts with themed paper
- vocabulary activities
- word study print & go activities
- ideas for grammar lessons with focus sentence printables
- social emotional learning discussion topics
- graphic organizers to target specific comprehension skills and strategies
This resource is all you will need when it comes to planning your read aloud for the book A Color of His Own. Gone are the days when you have to brainstorm discussion questions, look online for student activities, and spend hours gathering resources. Now everything you need is included in this book companion allowing you to make choices on what you want to use with your students.
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ADDITIONAL BOOK SUGGESTIONS
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