A New Coat for Anna
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A New Coat for Anna
Illus. in full color. "A fresh and moving story of a mother's dedication to acquire a coat for her daughter in post-World War II hard times. Anna's mother decides to trade the few valuables she has left for wool and for the services of a spinner, a weaver, and a tailor. Lobel's pictures do a tremendous job of evoking the period. Insightful and informative, this may make children consider how precious the ordinary can become in times of turmoil."
Why are we featuring this book?
A New Coat for Anna is a book featured in Five in a Row, a literature-based unit study curriculum. Many families use FIAR for all but the Grammar / Reading and Math, and others use it in conjunction with other resources. Below you will find information about the author and illustrator, story summaries, and links to lesson plans and websites that are great go-alongs for A New Coat for Anna. Please note that these resources are meant to complement, not replace, the Five in a Row units. The Five in a Row volumes are inexpensive and well worth the investment. Digital downloads of the FIAR volumes and supplementary resources like Fold & Learn™ (paper manipulatives similar to lapbooks) are available to enhance your units.
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Author page
Other books by Harriet Ziefert
Illustrator Page
The author is also the illustrator.
Go-Alongs:
Online Units and Resources for A New Coat for Anna
A New Coat for Anna (Wool)
This supplemental unit provides resources for students in first and second grade to understand how people acquire goods and services. More specifically, the children will learn about the process involved in making a coat, from sheep to clothing.
(Y)
Guide in Budapest
Facts and Pictures of Hungary (Y)
Our Five in a Row Adventures Vol. 2
Highlights and sugggestions from someone who has "rowed" before you. (Y,T)
A New Coat for Anna
From TeacherViews. (Grades K-6) (Y M)
A New Coat for Anna Poem
(Y, M, O, T)
Intermediate Civics (3-4): Values and Principles
Selflessness in the face of personal adversity. Alternate book list. Grades 3-4 (Y)
Mr. Fargan's Reading Pages
Grade 3.2 (Y)
CyberSleuthKids: Hungary
A comprehensive educational directory and homework helper that provides a wide variety of resources on Hungary. (Y, M, O, T)
Budapest Zoo & Botanical Garden
A place where regardless of age, everyone finds something entertaining! In Budapest Zoo you can see more than 2000 animals from the African savannah to the arctic area. (Y, M, O, T)
Go-alongs about WWII
1945 World War II Timeline - From WorldWar2History.info (Y, M, O, T)
Aleutian World War II National Historic Area - The Aleutian World War II National Historic Area and Visitor Center in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, tell these compelling stories and preserve the historic Fort Schwatka on Mount Ballyhoo. In a unique arrangement, the park and visitor center are owned and managed by the Ounalashka Corporation (the village corporation for Unalaska) and the National Park Service provides them with technical assistance. Through this cooperative partnership, the Unangax are the keepers of their history and invite the public to learn more about its past and present. (Y, M, O, T)
Fly Girls - During WWII, more than a thousand women signed up to fly with the US military. Wives, mothers, actresses and debutantes who joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS) test-piloted aircraft, ferried planes and logged 60 million miles in the air. (Y, M, O, T)
Manzanar National Historic Site - In 1942, the United States government ordered more than 110,000 men, women, and children to leave their homes and detained them in remote, military-style camps. Manzanar War Relocation Center was one of ten camps where Japanese American citizens and resident Japanese aliens were interned during World War II. (Y, M, O, T)
North American Battleground of World War II - Teaching with Historic places lesson plans (Y, M, O, T)
Pearl Harbor Raid - a historical overview and special images selection from the Naval Historical Center (Y, M, O, T)
Remembering Pearl Harbor - National Geographic's Pearl Harbor page with maps, timelines, survivor's stories, and more (Y, M, O, T)
Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park - Preserves and interprets the stories and places of our nation's home front response to World War II. (Y, M, O, T)
Timeline of Events 1941-1945 - From The History Place™ - World War Two in the Pacific. (Y, M, O, T)
Tuskegee Airman - During World War II, black fighter pilots fought the Germans abroad and racism in the ranks...may we never forget...and may future generations understand the way it was...
(Y, M, O, T)
WWII Pilots - "The B-24 Liberator was produced in greater quantities and flown in more theaters of war by the air forces of more countries than any other four engine bomber in World War II. 19,256 planes (in several versions) were produced by Consolidated Vultee, Ford Motor Company, Douglas Aircraft and North American Aircraft between the years of 1939 and 1945. Today there are only two flight-worthy B-24's in existence, and it's history and role in WW II is only dimly recalled except by those who flew in them." (Y, M, O, T)
Go-alongs about Sheep
Sheep crafts - Crafts for kids from Danielle's Place (Y)
