Help students build important reading and writing skills using heartwarming stories such as Strega Nona, The Popcorn Book, The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush, Watch Out for Chicken Feet in Your Soup, and other Tomie dePaola favorites. Engaging lessons, activities, interactive reproducibles, and graphic organizers will help students develop skills in predicting, sequencing, summarizing, analyzing story elements, and exploring the characteristics of different genres--from nonfiction to folktales. Also includes teaching ideas for phonics, vocabulary and spelling, and much more!