Strega Nona Worksheets

Writing Activities for Tomie dePaola Books After reading Strega Nona Takes a Vacation, students imagined where else Strega Nona might travel and wrote postcards home from Strega Nona's point of view. On an "armadillo watch" in Texas! Cruisin' in a limo in Hollywood! The back says" I wish you were here to stop this ride! Strega Nona, or Grandmother Witch, heals her community members with her natural remedies.

When she gets too old to cure headaches, help single women find husbands, and rid people of warts on her own, she takes on a helper called Big Anthony. Free Strega Nona study unit worksheets for teachers to print. Comprehension by chapter, vocabulary challenges, creative reading response activities and projects, tests, and much more!

Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Strega Nona Use Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work. Tomie de Paola's predictable story will have children giggling as they think about what outrageous events can happen when magic is misused. Strega Nona - 2 Separate activities! FREE! This activity is meant to be used on an interactive file folder.

Once the student has read the book, they can use the file folder to arrange character traits to the matching character. The second activity is a story mountain for the Strega Nona book. Same concept, students will match the sentence to the corresponding part of the story.

These. Substitute Plans Today's lessons are all based on the book Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola. Social Studies (approx.

30 min.): Maps Show students the cover of Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola. Tell students that today you are going to be doing a lot of activities based on this book. Show students copies of the World Map and Europe Map.

FREE Strega Nona (primary/elem)' Book Overview Use this 'Book: Strega Nona (primary/elem)' printable worksheet in the classroom or at home. Your students will love this 'Book: Strega Nona (primary/elem)'. Enhances comprehension and vocabulary for Tomie dePaola's retelling of an Italian folktale; Caldecott Honor Book.

Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola is such a great book. This collection of comprehension and writing activities for Strega Nona will help your kids enjoy the book and work on comprehension skills too. SYNOPSIS Strega Nona - "Grandma Witch" - is the source for potions, cures, magic and comfort in her Calabrian town.

Her magical ever-full pasta pot is especially intriguing to hungry Big Anthony. He is supposed to look after her house and tend her garden, but one day, when she goes over the mountain to visit Strega Amelia, Big Anthony recites the magic verse over the pasta pot, with. Strega Nona and Her Tomatoes is a counting book, and Big Anthony: His Story includes quite a few words of Italian.

Younger children will just enjoy the stories, but they provide an opportunity for older students to compare the structure of a folktale with other kinds of stories.