CHALLENGING WORDS

autumn
beautiful
Halloween
happy
hurry
pick
sneeze
Thanksgiving
trick-or-treat
visits

SUMMARY

Clifford loves autumn. He helps pick up leaves. Clifford and Emily Elizabeth have great autumn days together.

--- Conversation Questions---

(1) / Share your favorite part of the story.
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / Why is this your favorite part?
(2) / Estimate how long you think it took them to rake the leaves into a pile?
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / Have you ever had to rake leaves? Did you play in them when you were finished?
(3) / Suppose you were Clifford, would you be glad to be back home with your friends?
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / When you are gone somewhere do you miss your friends?
(4) / Tell me your favorite season and why.
(Answer) / Any logical answer.
(Follow Up) / What season is it now?
(5) / Define beautiful.
(Answer) / Very pretty, lovely.
(Follow Up) / Tell me something that you think is beautiful.
(6) / Name what Clifford was dressed up as to go trick-or-treating.
(Answer) / A clown.
(Follow Up) / Tell me what have been on Halloween before.
(7) / Explain how the leaves got blown all over the yard.
(Answer) / Clifford sneezed and it blew them all over the place.
(Follow Up) / Do you think there is a Kleenex/tissue big enough for Clifford somewhere?
(8) / Tell who Clifford visited on Thanksgiving.
(Answer) / His mom.
(Follow Up) / Do you visit family on Thanksgiving?
(9) / Tell who Emily Elizabeth visited on Thanksgiving.
(Answer) / Her grandmother.
(Follow Up) / Do you visit grandparents on Thanksgiving?
(10) / Find what color Emily Elizabeth’s parent’s car was on the last page.
(Answer) / The car was purple.
(Follow Up) / What color car or vehicle does your parent’s drive?
Activities
1. / Draw and label a picture of Emily Elizabeth and Clifford in their costumes.
2. / Write a short paragraph about your favorite season. Make sure to include why it is your favorite.
3. / List all the holidays during autumn. Choose your favorite and write a sentence telling why.
4. / Draw a picture of you and a friend doing something you enjoy in the autumn. Write a sentence describing your picture.
Introductions
1. / Have pictures of different seasons. Ask student(s) what their favorite season is. Tell them that Clifford loves autumn, let’s read and see why.
2. / Have a picture of Clifford or a toy Clifford. Ask student(s) what their favorite Clifford story is. Today we are going to read about Clifford’s favorite season. Let’s see what it is.
3. / Show student(s) the front of the book. Ask them what they think this book is about. Let’s read and see if you are correct.

Book Title: Clifford Loves Autumn

Author: Norman Bridwell / Illustrator: Norman Bridwell
ISBN: 0-439-13370-X / # of Text Pages: 8 AR: n/a LEX: n/a
Building Oral Vocabulary
1 / autumn / 2 / sneeze / 8 / beautiful
Prediction Questions
1 / What do you think Clifford and Emily Elizabeth will do next?
4 / Do you think Clifford got a lot of candy?
8 / Do you think Clifford and Emily Elizabeth are glad to see each other?

This resource is made available by THE LEARNING CORPS-Barren County School system, an AmeriCorps program, funded in part by the Kentucky Commission on Community and Volunteer Service and the Corporation for National and Community Service.