This resource will help you encourage your students to use the books they read as seeds to sprout new ideas and more books! In Read a Book - Make a Book teachers and students read a referereced literature title and then create a class or individual book in response.
The 38 literature titles featured include:
* picture books such as Stellaluna and Have You Seen My Duckling?
* chapter books such as How to Eat Fried Worms and The BFG
* classics such as Mr. Popper's Penguins and Make Way for Ducklings
* both fiction and nonfiction selections
You can make double-hinged books, layered books, pull-tab books, pop-up books, pull-down books, flap books, and more. Each book-making project includes "After You Read" -- ideas for discussing each book. These suggestions serve as a prewriting lesson to the "Now Write!" activity. Each project has an original poem written to accompany it.
Step-by-step instructions, reproducible patterns, and materials list included for every project. Fun, instructive line art illustrations throughout. All 160 pages perforated for easy removal.
The 38 literature titles featured include:
* picture books such as Stellaluna and Have You Seen My Duckling?
* chapter books such as How to Eat Fried Worms and The BFG
* classics such as Mr. Popper's Penguins and Make Way for Ducklings
* both fiction and nonfiction selections
You can make double-hinged books, layered books, pull-tab books, pop-up books, pull-down books, flap books, and more. Each book-making project includes "After You Read" -- ideas for discussing each book. These suggestions serve as a prewriting lesson to the "Now Write!" activity. Each project has an original poem written to accompany it.
Step-by-step instructions, reproducible patterns, and materials list included for every project. Fun, instructive line art illustrations throughout. All 160 pages perforated for easy removal.
