Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for A Color of His Own

Use A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

This story of a little chameleon struggling to understand what makes him so wonderfully unique is the perfect anchor text for whole-group or small-group lessons focused on comprehension strategies including how to synthesize, make logical predictions, and make meaningful connections while reading. Additionally, this collection of teaching resources includes a lesson plan focused on exploring digraphs and diphthongs along with vocabulary development resources and two assessments.

Explore lesson plans and activities to help you teach with A Color of His Own in the drop down below.

Identifying the Author’s Purpose with A Color of His Own

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Identifying the Author’s Purpose with A Color of His Own

Understanding the author's purpose for writing a book is key to comprehension and engagement. Leo Lionni's story of a little chameleon who just wants to fit in is the perfect springboard for a minilesson focused on identifying the author's purpose.

Use this set of teaching resources to help students understand the author's message and identify his purpose for writing A Color of His Own.

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Making Connections with A Color of His Own

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Making Connections with A Color of His Own

The story of a little chameleon who feels left out is highly relatable for young children.

Use this minilesson and set of teaching resources to show students how they can use their experiences to make meaningful connections to the chameleon's story. With a little luck, your students will draw upon their connections to better understand the messages of self-appreciation and acceptance found within this classic picture book.

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Making Predictions with A Color of His Own

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Making Predictions with A Color of His Own

What happens when a chameleon looks for a color of his own? Can he stand on a green leaf and remain green forever? These are just some of the questions students will enjoy pondering as they learn to make predictions with A Color of His Own.

Use the text-specific questions included in this set of teaching resources to give beginning readers practice making predictions. Students will also practice explaining whether or not the predictions they make are logical.

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Retelling & Summarizing with A Color of His Own

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Retelling & Summarizing with A Color of His Own

A Color of His Own is an ideal anchor text for a minilesson focused on retelling and summarizing.

With this set of teaching resources you can easily discuss the characters, problems, solutions, and important events in the story with your students. By learning to notice key story elements, students will be able to summarize the book and answer questions about the beginning, middle, and end of the book.

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Synthesizing with A Color of His Own

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Synthesizing with A Color of His Own

Teaching young readers to synthesize is all about teaching them to think about their thinking.

Use this minilesson and set of student activities to help your students track the ways in which their opinion of the little chameleon changes as they read A Color of His Own. The included graphic organizer and reader's notebook prompt provide additional practice for students learning how to synthesize and connect with the books they read.

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Digraphs with A Color of His Own

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Digraphs with A Color of His Own

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni as a springboard for instruction focused on digraphs and diphthongs.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how digraphs and diphthongs are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with words.

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Vocabulary Connections with A Color of His Own

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Vocabulary Connections with A Color of His Own

This set of vocabulary development resources for A Color of His Own highlights the words that are most important for students to know and understand while reading the book.  Through engaging in fun word games, matching words to definitions and pictures, and practicing how to categorize words, students will develop the vocabulary necessary to comprehend this story and many others.
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Running Record with A Color of His Own

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Running Record with A Color of His Own

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with A Color of His Own. Track meaning, structure, and visual accuracy using the first 100 words of the text to determine whether or not this book is a good fit for the readers in your classroom.

Cause and Effect Matching with A Color of His Own

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Cause and Effect Matching with A Color of His Own

Read A Color of His Own then have some fun matching cause and effect sentences from the book. By using these cause and effect cards, students will demonstrate both their comprehension of the text and their understanding of cause and effect relationships in hands-on and interactive way.

This resource includes matching/sorting cards and a sorting mat for four cause and effect sentences in A Color of His Own. Each cause card is marked with a square and each effect card is marked with a circle, making it easy to support students who struggle with matching cause and effect relationships.

Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with A Color of His Own

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Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with A Color of His Own

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of A Color of His Own includes several examples of cause and effect relationships, making it easy to use as a springboard for modeling or independent practice.

This simple resource includes four sentence stems. Each sentence stem presents an effect. Students will use what they know about the book to fill in the cause of the effect.

Retelling and Summarizing with A Color of His Own

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Retelling and Summarizing with A Color of His Own

In A Color of His Own, the little chameleon doesn't have a color of his own and so he sets out on a walk to find a color his very own. This worksheet provides students with the opportunity to use their knowledge of the story to complete a story strip retelling what happened to the chameleon during his colorful walk.

Identifying the Author’s Purpose with A Color of His Own (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Making Connections with A Color of His Own (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Making Predictions with A Color of His Own (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Retelling & Summarizing with A Color of His Own (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Synthesizing with A Color of His Own (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Retelling and Summarizing with A Color of His Own (Spanish)

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About the Book

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Title: A Color of His Own
Author: Leo Lionni
Genre: Fantasy
Themes: Social Awareness, Friendship, Perseverance, Relationship Skills, Self Awareness, Self Management
ISBN: 9780307974266
Publisher's Summary:
Elephants are gray. Pigs are pink. Only the chameleon has no color of his own. He is purple like the heather, yellow like a lemon, even black and orange striped like a tiger! Then one day a chameleon has an idea to remain one color forever by staying on the greenest leaf he can find. But in the autumn, the leaf changes from green to yellow to red . . . and so does the chameleon. When another chameleon suggests they travel together, he learns that companionship is more important than having a color of his own. No matter where he goes with his new friend, they will always be alike.
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