Barbara LaVallee
Author of All You Need for a Beach
About the Author
Works by Barbara LaVallee
Associated Works
The Sourdough Man: An Alaska Folktale (PAWS IV) (2010) — Illustrator, some editions — 34 copies, 1 review
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- Education
- Wesleyan University (art education)
- Occupations
- artist
restauranteur
teacher - Short biography
- Lavallee obtained a fine arts degree from Wesleyan University and taught art at Mt. Edgecombe boarding school in Sitka, Alaska for twelve years. She resides in Anchorage, Alaska.
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Barbara Lavallee grew up in Iowa and Wisconsin, the daughter of an art teacher and a Protestant minister, and graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University with a degree in art education in 1964. She worked in social services in Germany and Maine, taught art to Native American children in Arizona and Alaska, and owned and operated a restaurant with her husband, Tom, in Sitka, Alaska.
Divorced since 1981, Lavallee raised her sons, Mark and Chip, in Sitka and Anchorage. Today she and her sons manage a family-owned, direct-mail merchandising business, Lavallee and Sons, in Anchorage. [from Painted Ladies and other celebrations (1995)] - Places of residence
- Anchorage, Alaska, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- Alaska, USA
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I would use this book this book with lower grade levels such as kindergarten or first grade as it is very repetitive and the words chosen are very simplistic and would be much too easy for older grade levels to read. With this book, it would be easy to have the students make connections about their favorite vacations or their ideal vacations. I would also have them practice their inferring skills based on what they think would happen next based on the illustrations.
I think this book would be perfect for an end of the school year book to het the students excited for summer and maybe any future vacations they may have. This book is definitely meant for lower grade levels such as kindergarten-1st grade.
Good rhyming, guessing-what's-next book about one of my favorite places, the beach!
I would use this for a kindergarten or 1st grade class due to the simple vocabulary and storyline. This is a good book to introduce poetry to younger students because it rhymes and is something most students can relate to. For a kindergarten class I would read this out loud and talk with the class about what they see in the pictures. As a class I would have them use the illustrations to make a list of things we find at the beach and make a list on the board. I would then have them draw a show more picture of something they might do if they were on the beach. If I used this book for a 1st grade class I would focus on the rhyming words and have the students pick out words on each page that rhymed. I would write out two words from the story that rhyme and show them broken down the parts that make the words rhyme. I would then have them come up with other words that rhyme and do the same thing with those words on the board. I would then give them a matching sheet where they matched rhyming words that had pictures next to them to give them a clue if they struggled reading the words. show less
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- Works
- 4
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- Members
- 105
- Popularity
- #183,190
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 10
- ISBNs
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