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Synopsis
Publish your students' work using delightful book-making forms that cover 50 topics ranging from animals to popular holidays. This complete resource provides everything the busy teacher needs to support multiple levels of writers in one classroom. Separate forms for emergent, beginning, and independent writers make it easy
Synopsis
Teachers know how difficult it is to address the varied writing needs within a primary classroom. With The Ultimate Shape Book, you can conduct a writing lesson based on a literature book and provide a writing experience that is appropriate for all your students. - Nonwriters may use the blank shape form to draw their stories. They may then dictate a sentence or two about their story for an adult or cross-age tutor to write on the form. - Beginning writers draw a picture and write several sentences on the shape form with three or four writing lines. - Independent writers develop their stories on the fully lined shape form. The 50 topics offer a variety of motivating shapes - 25 animal topics, including penguin, bat, elephant, and stegosaurus - 10 seasonal and holiday topics, including sailing ship, cornucopia, pinata, and heart - 15 miscellaneous topics, including clown, house, mitten, and sun - Give every student a copy of the front and back covers (back cover has a poem on it too ) to cut out and color. Now everyone in class has a book to share.