AUTHOR

ELISABETTA
DAMI

HOPE YOU HAVE SOME

WHISKER - LICKING FUN!

About Elisabetta Dami

- Born in Milan
Italy 1958
- Lives in Milan
Italy and Arizona
- Wrote her first
stories Age 18
- Best Seller
Author of
Geronimo Stilton
Books Since
2000

AUTHOR STUDY
OF
ELISABETTA DALMI
ISTE Standards - Teachers:
1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity Teachers use their
knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to
facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and
innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments.
a. Promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and
inventiveness b. Engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving
authentic problems using digital tools and resources
d. Model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with
students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments.
Student Standards PK -2 (4-8)
4. In a collaborative work group, use a variety of technologies to produce a
digital presentation or product in a curriculum area. (1, 2, 6)
7. Demonstrate the safe and cooperative use of technology. (5)

English/
Language Arts

New York Standards

Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (K5) :
Grade: 3 Fluency
4. Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to
support comprehension.
a. Read grade-level text with purpose and
understanding.

Ontario Curriculum
OVERALL EXPECTATIONS By the end of Grade 3, students
will:
1. read and demonstrate an understanding of a variety of literary,
graphic, and informational texts, using a range of strategies to
construct meaning; 2. recognize a variety of text forms, text
features, and stylistic elements and demonstrate understanding of
how they help communicate meaning; 3. use knowledge of words
and cueing systems to read fluently; 4. reflect on and identify their
strengths as readers, areas for improvement, and the strategies
they found most helpful before, during, and after reading
Exact Expectation
Reading Fluently
3.3 read appropriate texts at a sufficient rate and with sufficient
expression to convey the sense of the text readily to the reader
and an audience (e.g., read a poem for two voices with a partner,
using appropriate phrasing and expression)

Ontario Pull

Weekly Spelling Words

Help Benjamin Spell His Weekly Words

Students will Pronounce, spell and define words

Word Wall

Sort words by number of syllables.

Fill in the rest of the lines with other Word Wall words.

Math
New York State Standards:
Problem Solving Strand
Students will build new mathematical knowledge through
problem solving.
2.PS.3
Act out or model with manipulatives activities involving
mathematical content from literature and/or story telling
Number Sense and Operations Strand
Students will understand numbers, multiple ways of
representing numbers, relationships among numbers, and
number system
2.N.7
Use a variety of strategies to compose and decompose twodigit numbers
2.N.8
Understand and use the commutative property of addition

Overall Expectations:
By the end of Grade 3,students will: read, represent,
compare, and order whole numbers to 100,and use
concrete materials to represent fractions and money
amounts to 100; demonstrate an understanding of
magnitude by counting forward to 200 and backwards
from 50,using multiples of various numbers as starting
points; solve problems involving the addition and
subtraction of one- and two-digit whole numbers ,using a
variety of strategies, and investigate multiplication and
division.
Operational Sense By the end of Grade 3,students will:
solve problems involving the addition and subtraction
of whole numbers to 18,using a variety of mental
strategies (e.g. "To add 6 + 8, I could double 6 and get 12
and then add 2 more to get 14.)

Ontario Pull
New York Pull

Students will read aloud by taking

turns after watching the trailer.
The Mouse Island Marathon is about
when Geronimo Stilton accidentally
signed up for "The Mouse Island
Marathon. Although, he is not an
athlete, with the support and
encouragement of his family and
friends, he was able to complete and
cross the finish line.

The Marathon
Question 1
If Geronimo ran 11 km
on Monday and 14 on
Tuesday, how many Km
did he run in total. Drag
the numbers to create
your work.

To check if you are

correct drag
Geronimo to the
right to see the
answer

If Thea ran 17 Km on
Wednesday
and 20 on Friday,
how many km did
she
run altogether?

Double Digit Fun

Help Geronimo and Thea calculate the amount of
Kilometers they ran. Pull the tabs in the order they are
numbered.

14 12 10 20 17 19 16 15 18
question 1
=

25

11
12
+17

+
+
+
+
+

19 12
Pull me first
Drag the
numbers to
create your
work, An
example is done
for you.

To check if you are

correct drag Thea to
the left to see the
answer

question 2 = 37