Overview
This all-in-one resource helps you and your young students create flap books, wheel books, tri-fold books, accordion books, shape books, and pop-up books. There are reproducible patterns for a wide variety of big (11"x17") book covers, many of which will easily tie in with specific lessons and seasons. These fun patterns include: monkey, bear, frog , jar, elephant, house, apple, dog, clown, pig, duck, Stegasaurus, basket, mouse, snowman, turtle, knight, bunny, and tooth. Smaller patterns for each are also included. The instructions and suggestions for making books are thorough and extremely helpful. Please refer to the Expanded Series Description below for complete details. Making Big Books with Children is easy, fun and sure to make a big impact on any child.Create your own big books for reading instruction or student stories. Three titles, each with 20 big 11" x 17" patterns for shape books, wheel books, accordion books, and more. Literature references, story starters, and little stories for reading instruction.
Use the three volumes in this series to create an almost unlimited supply of big books for your students to share. For each of the 19-21 topics in each book we give you big 11" x 17" patterns and little 5" x 4" patterns and an abundance of ways to use them to enhance reading and writing in your classroom.
You can use the big patterns to make big books for reading instruction-- we give you two stories and a poem to choose from. You can use the big patterns to make class books--we give you directions, story starters and suggestions for picture stories. You can use the little patterns to make individual books--we show you several ways. You can use the littlepatterns to make stick puppets, game pieces, bulletin board borders, name tags, you name it! For every topic there are literature references given.