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Week 4
What a Tree Has Seen
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Week 4
What a Tree Has Seen
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Warm Up
Before Reading
Have students look t the title page. Remind students that the title page
contains the title and the name of the author and illustrator. Ask volunteers to
explain what title, author, and illustrator means. Have volunteers read the title,
author’s name, and illustrator’s name aloud. Then read the title, author, and
illustrator and have the class repeat after you:
What a Tree Has Seen by Hope
Walker, illustrated by Stephen Aitken.
Have the class repeat it after you.
Genre
Remind students that we read to learn. Books, stories, and poems can explain
or describe things.
What a Tree Has
Seen
is an example of historical fiction.
Explain:
Sometimes authors will place a story within a series of real historical events.
The characters may not be real, but the events actually happened. Sometimes the
characters are real but the events may be imaginary events.
Discuss with the class
what any books or stories they know or have read that are historical fiction.
You may provide some examples to begin the discussion.