Where to Get Appropriate Text for K-1 Bookmaking

* Innovations of shared reading material.
* Reproducible emergent readers from resource books
*Traditional poems, songs, rhymes, and chants
* Adaptations of emergent readers
* Download free books from the internet.

For your book-making pleasure, here is a great idea for a class book based on my book below, What Goes Together?

 

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What goes together?

June Swinney, a 1st grade teacher, made this class book with her students. First she read aloud several books with the theme of catagories or things that go together. Then the class brainstormed a long long list of paired objects. From that list they created rhyming couplets. Pairs of students created and illustrated each page of the class Big Book. Adorable!

When is a Good Time to Make Books with K-1 Kids?

When is a Good Time

to Make Books

with K-1 Kids?  

Finding time to make books with your beginning readers can be a challenge.

Here are some good times to keep in mind:

•  As a learning center activity
•  Homework
• When parent volunteers are available (Coordinate this with center time.)
•  Time with upper grade buddies

If you have other suggestions for how to find time for book-making,

please let me know and I"ll post your ideas!

Here is one of my favorite Cat and Dog books,

with a cool book-making activity that you can download for free. This fun book fits with a social studies theme of "needs vs. wants."

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Good Choices for Cat and Dog

Book Making!

                                            

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