Week 5

A Book Is Just Like You! All About the Parts of a Book by Kathleen Fox  

Read to: Pre-K, Kinder, and Primer 

Skills: Parts of a book 

This week we learned about the parts of a book. This book goes into great detail about how a book is just like us, so I think the comparison helped our younger students understand the overall concept better. For example, just like we have a family, a book has one too, the author, illustrator, publisher etc. Or just like we have a birthday, a book has one too, its copyright date. This book also goes into great detail about the other parts of a book such as the index, glossary, and bibliography, but we didn't touch on those parts quite yet. We just stuck to the basic parts and later we can get into more detail. It is important to learn about the parts of a book so students can identify where the title or author is. In addition, knowing what the spine of the book is and what a call number is will help the students once they begin going to the bookshelves to choose a book.   

For the lesson we began by reading the book, then we reviewed what we read in the book with a quick Smart Board lesson, and then we played a game of Simon Says, while the kids pointed to the parts that Simon was saying. There were no losers in this game of Simon Says though. I just wanted the kids to practice finding the parts of the book and they did a great job! Some of the kids even decided to check out the book that they had for the game, and that was OK with me!      

In other unrelated news, we finally got our new beanbag chairs in for our reading area! The kids are already in love with them and we are too! Just another comfy chair to curl up in with a good book. What could be better?

Have fun reading some great books this week!