Class Books- All About Fall!

Class books are my absolute favorite! These books are always the hot ticket item in our classroom library. Students love reading their own work and I love seeing how proud each student is of his/her own work. We spend several days completing all the activities, which helps reinforce the skill we are working on. We have just completed our second class book and I wanted to share what a wonderful job these kiddos did.

The first day we brainstorm together and make a chart. students come up with what they want their page to say and I write it on the chart. We use this chart for several days to practice reading our sentences. 

Next I give students an envelope with their name on it. In their envelope they will find all the words that make up their own sentence. It is their job to put the sentence in order and read it to me. This really helps students recognize the difference between a letter/word/sentence. Once they have their words in order they glue them onto construction paper. 

The next day we work on our illustrations. We spent a lot of time this week talking about realistic pictures and making our pictures relate to our sentences. In kinder we often use pictures to read the story so we want our readers to be able to connect to the book through both the words and pictures. 

After students finish their illustrations they have the opportunity to share their work with the class. They really enjoy this part and I like how it helps students take ownership of their work. 

Next, I laminate the book and put it together for the class. Once we read it together as a whole class the book moves to the class library for students to read during read time :) 

Happy Fall!!