I love the message of the book, even though it is extremely didactic, and the humor and the pictures are wonderful.

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As you can see when you open up an activity plan, everything you need to teach is colour-coded and divided into different areas: By telling stories from the points of view of crayons, giving voices to the small and ignored, Daywalt and Jeffers have created two books that offer plenty of charm and fun, but also make children feel deeply understood.”—The Boston GlobeThe crayons quit because they're all a bit tired of coloring the same old things. Each crayon writes a separate letter, explaining exactly what they're each tired off. [The letters look really good, by the bye] and there's a sample of the coloring they're talking about. A hilarious twist on a classic bedtime story: When a boy who routinely refuses to go to bed gets a talkative stuffed animal, the tables are turned! A brilliant, colorful tale that begs to be read aloud and a must-have for all collections.”—School Library Journal,starred review The students are using their listening bodies – while sitting on the floor – bottoms on the floor, hands not fidgeting with anything, hands on knees if not hands are up in the air answering or asking a question and eyes and ears facing and listening to the teacher and other students’ answers, questions or comments. But then I saw them, like a beacon on a hill… there, on my desk, sat an ancient box of my old crayons next to the hula girl pen holder my grandpa had left me in his will. I didn’t remember buying the crayons, or even why I had them. I didn’t have kids yet, so they were definitely my crayons. And at the time, I couldn’t for the life of me remember the last time I had colored. Crayons are so ubiquitous, aren’t they? They just show up everywhere, under couch cushions, behind the dresser, in the junk drawer. But here was a box I’d aparently kept with me, moving them with all my office stuff from apartment to apartment. So yeah… there they were. And I just knew they had a story to tell.

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Testing students level of knowledge and understanding about the story book against their completed work and learning objectives

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The teacher has made a display board ready for the students to place their completed work – with the heading – Art is Fun! – The Day the Crayons Quit. Resources: ICT activities relating to the above lessons – included in the general lesson, early finishers, extended lessons:

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This book was mentioned in a conversation here on Goodreads, with a link to a reading on Youtube, so I watched it. And I kinda loved it. Challenge your learners to explore the concept of synonyms with this fun activity. The activity requires that learners come up with as many synonyms for the colors as they can think of. For example red- cherry, blood, rouge, and scarlet. To up the ante, pair students up and set a time limit. The couple with the most synonyms by the end wins! That’s my next book!” I yelped gleefully, “If the other crayons were all bent out of shape over how they were being used, imagine how THESE ones feel??!” Find out the cost of different sets of crayons. Work out the cost of each crayon in the sets. Which set is the best value? Ignored, stereotyped and diminished, if the crayons in your classroom could talk, they might object to their treatment. Understanding why leads to great lesson activities, says Sue Cowley...I am your ... I am writing because I feel ... You have been ... and I am ... I don’t like it when you ... In future, please could you ...

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Cheeky humor and prideful asides will have listeners in stitches. A closer-to-perfect pairing couldn’t be imagined. Everyone wins!” Two things happened after we finished the book: 1. The Baby Bettys obviously colored. 2. All peach crayons were stripped of their wrappers!

These lessons are designed for lower years (level 2) based upon connecting the events in the story book – ‘The Day the Crayons Quit’. The initial lesson is a reading one with a focus on questioning and making connections, while the second and third lessons focus on an independent letter writing activity that is accompanied by a piece of artwork. There is a strong emphasis on informative and imaginative text – sentence structure, use of sight words, phonological awareness, grammar, connecting words, sentence formation. Australian Curriculum Links: There's often a adult twist, as in the illustration for Pink's letter, which complains that Duncan might be stereotyping Pink as a 'girl's color." The drawing is of a pink dinosaur laughing at an embarrassed pink monster and a cowboy in pink chaps and vest.