Book Braggy Blogpost

 We have made a few little books recently.  One of the conferences I went to recently showed me a really easy way to make these little books, so we tried it and they were quite popular, so we've tried it a few more times.   The smaller pages are so much less intimidating to children than regular full-sized paper, so some children are much more willing to try to write more.

Yesterday everyone got to write a book about whatever they wanted.  It needed to have a title, an author, and at least 3 pages.  They made these books independently!  So I wanted to show/tell you all the wonderful things they are learning and progress they have made.  (Sorry for the blurry pictures)  It's fun to see them use the print conventions that we have talked about in books we read together.

 This child wrote a non-fiction book about snakes.

 The text is someone screaming (all capital letters, so it sounds exciting!)

 

 Here is a story about Indiana Jones that showed a beginning (he has a hat), a middle (the problem: he loses his hat), and an ending (the resolution: he finds his hat)

 Another non-fiction book, this one about plants and it used a label in the illustration, as many pictures in non-fiction books do.

 Really colorful illustrations:

 This book was a pattern book about different colored hearts.  Notice the period at the end of the sentence.

 This was a counting book about cats.

This book has neat writing and the pictures and words go together really well.  (She read this to me as dinosaur, but I think she actually wrote dragon).

This version of The Three Billy Goats Gruff was great!  The child remembered a title, an author, and used some other print conventions like ...