Tommy depaola art

A great blog post with hands-on activities and teaching resources for Tony’s Bread by Tomie dePaola. Part of a 4-part series on teaching reading comprehension and text structure with Tomie books for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade.

This post explores our read aloud plans for The Art Lesson by Tomie DePaola. You can take a look at the different kindergarten activities and see how they address important reading comprehension skills like visualizing, retelling, inferring and more.

Who better to start off our new “Meet the Magazine” series than the founder of Cricket Magazine, Marianne Carus.

Grab this list of 10 favorite must-have books for your art class students or to inspire creativity for any children in your life!

Welcome: Tommy Depaola Inspired Dragons

Your elementary students are going to love learning about theme with the story "The Legend of the Poinsettia" using these resources and FREE downloads.

Character Relationships Map from 26 Fairmount Avenue Great for third grade. Grab it free at Buzzing with Ms. B!

We’re knee deep now in our Tomie dePaola author study . Each time I read The Art Lesson I’m reminded and amazed all over again at the acute recollection Tomie dePaola has of his childhood. Down to the last detail. It’s those little details in the story and illustrations that draw me in and make The Art Lesson one of my […]

We’re knee deep now in our Tomie dePaola author study . Each time I read The Art Lesson I’m reminded and amazed all over again at the acute recollection Tomie dePaola has of his childhood. Down to the last detail. It’s those little details in the story and illustrations that draw me in and make The Art Lesson one of my […]

We’re well into week three of our Tomie dePaola author study and knee deep in Strega Nona’s world! My class has fallen in love with the characters in these books. Their folkloric quality, Big Anthony’s bumbling, Bambolona’s brusqueness and Strega Nona’s endearing ways have captured their hearts and their attention. We began this part of […]