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Laura Ingalls Wilder: An Author's Story
Discusses the childhood, marriage, and career of the American author, including her family's frequent moves from state to state, her time teaching in a one-room schoolhouse, and her meeting with her future husband, Almanzo Wilder
24 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1998
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March 22, 2020
This book would be a great read for students who are familiar with the Little House on the Prairie books. However, some of the information was unnecessary.
September 14, 2008
Title: "Laura Ingalls Wilder: An Author's Story"
Author: Sarah Glasscock
Photograpy: Courtesy Laura Ingalls Wilder Home Association and Culver Pictures
Publisher: Steck-Vaughn Company
Pub. Date: 1998
Genre: Picture Biography
Grades: 2-5
This book shares the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Her story starts with her birth in 1867 in the big woods of Wisconsin. It explains about her family's move to the prairie of Kansas, and how life had changed. Her family moved to Minnesota when she was seven years old. After hardships with grasshoppers eating their crops, they move to Iowa for work in a hotel. Moving again to Minnesota and then to South Dakota, hardships continued to come with a blizzard and almost starving. Family is important and close through her life. The story also shares about Laura becoming a teacher and marrying Almanzo Wilder. The Wilders will move to Missouri for a better climate. Laura would tell her daughter, Rose, stories about living on the prairie. As Rose gets older and becomes an author, she will get her mom, Laura, to write down the stories. Laura Ingalls Wilder did not start writing until the age of sixty, and then she would write eleven books. This just proves that it is never too late to do things with your life.
Activities:
1. Would use this book to help with an author study, while reading "Little House on the Prairie" series. The students in groups will do an author study and create a newspaper front page about information of the author. Someone can illustrate the picture. Someone can give the headline. Someone can write up the caption for under the picture. The group can organize and research the information for the actual article.
2. Do a map study. This will help with integrating Social Studies. Have a map displayed on a bulletin board. Locate on the map all of the states that Laura Ingalls Wilder has lived. Mark with a push pin. Then use yarn to show the state that was lived in next.
Author: Sarah Glasscock
Photograpy: Courtesy Laura Ingalls Wilder Home Association and Culver Pictures
Publisher: Steck-Vaughn Company
Pub. Date: 1998
Genre: Picture Biography
Grades: 2-5
This book shares the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Her story starts with her birth in 1867 in the big woods of Wisconsin. It explains about her family's move to the prairie of Kansas, and how life had changed. Her family moved to Minnesota when she was seven years old. After hardships with grasshoppers eating their crops, they move to Iowa for work in a hotel. Moving again to Minnesota and then to South Dakota, hardships continued to come with a blizzard and almost starving. Family is important and close through her life. The story also shares about Laura becoming a teacher and marrying Almanzo Wilder. The Wilders will move to Missouri for a better climate. Laura would tell her daughter, Rose, stories about living on the prairie. As Rose gets older and becomes an author, she will get her mom, Laura, to write down the stories. Laura Ingalls Wilder did not start writing until the age of sixty, and then she would write eleven books. This just proves that it is never too late to do things with your life.
Activities:
1. Would use this book to help with an author study, while reading "Little House on the Prairie" series. The students in groups will do an author study and create a newspaper front page about information of the author. Someone can illustrate the picture. Someone can give the headline. Someone can write up the caption for under the picture. The group can organize and research the information for the actual article.
2. Do a map study. This will help with integrating Social Studies. Have a map displayed on a bulletin board. Locate on the map all of the states that Laura Ingalls Wilder has lived. Mark with a push pin. Then use yarn to show the state that was lived in next.
June 30, 2016
good book but is a quick read
June 18, 2015
Three of my 4 reading groups read this book. They really enjoyed it. Lots of vocabulary, like "dugout", which had my students asking "how does a cow get on a roof?", which led to rich discussions.
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June 20, 2020Outstanding book
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