I Like to Book

To support our young readers and writers, we did a shared writing activity where the students created a patterned book to share their interests. The students had a writing paper that said ___ likes to ____. They filled in the prompt and drew a picture to match the words. I then copied their words onto chart paper to use for shared reading. Students were able to focus on following a pattern, using pictures as clues, and using the beginning sound as a clue in reading. They loved reading it so much that I hung it in the library where they continued to read it over and over, practicing their one-to-one correspondence!