Red Sings from the Treetops a year in colors

 By: Joyce Sidman
Lexile Reading Level: AD570L

Spring, Winter, Fall, Summer, Colors

In this book, specific colors are used to describe the four seasons. These poems uses description so the reader can really picture what is happening in the book.
Suggested Delivery: Small Group Reading

Electronic Resources:

Meet the Author

This is Joyce Sidman’s website, where students can find information on her and her book. There are questions that tell about her life and how she started writing. This can be used before the students read the book, so they can get to know the author.

Wordle

Students will pick one of the season, described in the book. They will create a word cloud describing the colors and different events that happen in each season. This will be done after they read this book.

Key Vocabulary:

This vocabulary should be taught before reading the book.

Rhubarb

Squirms

Mossy-soft

Goldfinches

Honking

Waxing

Waning

Reading Strategies:

Students will answer an anticipation guide to see what they know about poems in general and about the poems in the book. Students will do this before they read and answered the statements true or false.

All poems need to rhyme. False

Colors can be used to describe seasons. True

The color red resembles the sun. True

The color while only stands for winter. False

After the students have read the poems in the book, they will create their own found poem. The students will use words or phrases from the poems to create their own poems.

Writing Activity that demonstrates Inferential Comprehension:

Students will pick a season that they enjoy the most to write about. They will use the colors in the book which describes this season and they will describe what each color represents.

Sidman, J., & Sidman, J. (2009). Red sings from treetops: a year in colors. Cookery: Houghton Mifflin Books For Children.