Chester

This book had me giggling throughout. Chester the cat doesn't like the story the author wrote, so he crosses hers out and adds his own with a red marker. Chester is quite narcissitic, but very funny.

Lesson Idea: Writing- This would be a great book to use during a writing lesson on editing stories and adding more details to a story. You could make up a very plain story with minimal drawings and then edit it and add more details. You could divide the students into groups and give each group one page of the story to edit together, or give 1 page to each student to edit and then come back to share when finished, or do it as a whole class together. Once you have completed this activity, then have students go back to choose a piece of writing they have done and work on adding more details to it. This lesson may take a day, a few days, or a week to complete. For a printable generic story click here

National Language Arts Standards:
4. Students adjust their use of spoken, written, and visual language (e.g., conventions, style, vocabulary)
to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences and for different purposes.
5. Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
6. Students apply knowledge of language structure, language conventions (e.g., spelling and punctuation), media techniques, figurative language, and genre to create, critique, and discuss print and nonprint