Free Author Study Activities - Having Fun First

Hey friends! Are you looking for engaging digital literacy resources to share with your students or to do with your own children? These author study activities are about some of my favorite authors and I know they will soon become your students’ favorites, too! I collaborated with a fellow educator and friend, Megan Mitchell from First Grade Roars to create these FREE digital author study resources that you can easily share with your students digitally. (Printable versions are also included!)

Each author study has a variety of guided reading comprehension activities and other unique extensions tailored to the book. Bonus, there is no need to own the book because each resource has a link to listen to the story as well as a link to explore their website full of other engaging activities.

The authors included in this free author study resource are:

Diane Alber
Andrew Beaty
Doreen Cronin
Becky Cummings
Drew Daywalt
Julie Falatko
Pat Zietlow Miller
Laura Murray
Peter H. Reynolds
Karma Wilson
Susan Verde

We know that the stress level is high, and the expectations might be unclear, but we know one thing to be true, that we want to continue supporting our students.

We hope that by providing these free digital author study units you will not only be able to continue supporting your students with engaging resources but that we are also able to ease and avoid any unneeded stress.

Click on the image below to access all the FREE digital author study resources we have created.

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