Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf

Ehlert, L. (1991). Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf. San Diego, California: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , Publishers.

Brief Annotation: This book is about a little boy who describes how a maple leaf seedling grows into a beautiful tree. The little boy goes through the seasons showing us how his tree has grown and best of all, the colors it becomes in the fall.

Genre: Picturebook

Grade Level: Pre K-2

Readers who will like this: Teachers or parents who are teaching about the growth of a tree. Teachers teaching their students about Earth Day. Children who love to learn about nature. Children who love bright colored pages. Children who are just learning how to read.

Response/Rating (1-4): 4. Not only does this picturebook have great bright pages to look at, it also shows seasonal comparisons of the maple tree for the children.It also tells the reader how to plant a tree at the end of the book.

Question you would ask before a read aloud: Can you tell me what happens to some trees in the fall?

Reading Strategies Connection: Graphic Organizer for Sequence of Events (Yopp & Yopp, P.77). The students can organize the sequence of events of a tree through the seasons. They can also add illustrations to show how the trees change through the seasons with colors and how in the winter the leaves fall off. They could expand this graphic organizer to a little book if wanted to.