Mini Books

Reproducible Mini Books
for Emergent Readers

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Using Reproducible Mini Books

Teaching reading is next to impossible without LOTS of small books to give to my students. No matter how good your reading series, nor how many books you have in your classroom library, you still need mini books for your students to keep in their bookboxes in the classroom or to take home for their private library. Either way, the point of mini books is to give your students the repeated practice they need to build fluency. And in many classrooms, these are the only materials available that are appropriate for emergent readers -- the basal series is just too hard, and doesn't give us the tools we need to bridge the gap between non-readers and beginning readers.

A lot of people on the KinderKorner Mailing List have been asking about inexpensive reproducible blackline books to extend their classroom materials for emergent readers. Here are some of the things I do with mini books in my classroom, to get more mileage from my materials:

Enlarge the pictures and text, color them, glue them to construction paper, and laminate them to make a Big Book for Shared Reading, and for the children to read individually during Literacy Centers.

Make a Wall Book by putting the pages up on a bulletin board for Read the Walls.

Make 6 extra copies of the book (enlarged, if necessary) and bind them inside

a 6" x 9" laminated cover, for permanent use during Guided Reading.

Copy the text onto sentence strips (2 sets of text), and make an extra set of pictures to color and laminate. Cut one set of strips apart so the kids can match the text in the pocket chart. I usually make alternating lines of text in two different colors to make reading and matching easier, and I staple a one-gallon ziplock baggie to my charts to hold the cut apart words.

Send the mini books home for family reading homework, and have everyone the child reads the book to write their name on the back. When the books are brought back to class, we keep them in our individual Book Boxes (I use cereal boxes) for independent reading.

Now That I Can Read

     I used to need somebody
     To sit and read to me.
     I'd look at every page they read
     And listen carefully.

     But now that I am in first grade,
     I'm filling up a shelf
     With stories, poems, and other books
     That I can read myself.

Reproducible Mini Books & Phonics Manipulatives
25 Emergent Reader Mini-Books Wonderful K-1 books for emergent readers, in the same format and size as "My Books" in Scholastic's Literacy Place series. Terrific thematic beginning readers to use all year long. 20% off Scholastic's price	25 Holiday & Seasonal Emergent Reader Mini-Books This volume adds another 25 books to your reading library. Charming child-sized 8 page books that help your budding readers feel success! 20% off Scholastic's price	Look, Look, I Wrote a Book! 28 reproducible minibooks for kids to personalize with their own words and illustrations. These delightful thematic books reinforce basic concepts, put songs and poetry into print, and are ideal for sharing at home and for reading time and again.
26 Interactive Alphabet Mini-Books Pre-emergent readers will love completing the pages as they practice handwriting, begin letter collections, and more. 20% off Scholastic's price	Guided Reading Books for the Emergent Reader 21 reproducible blackline books that make great Family Literacy Homework.	25 Mother Goose Peek-a-Books More mini books using familar text and easy patterns for emergent readers. 20% off Scholastic's price
Collaborative Math Books for Your Class to Make and Share Easy Patterns for Creating 12 Rhyming Books That Build Early Math & Literacy Skills This book is intended for making class big books, but can also be used for designing individual or collaborative group mini books. 20% off Scholastic's price	Write-And-Read Math Story Books: Reproducible Patterns for 12 Interactive Books That Build Early Math and Reading Skills This terrific book was released in May 1999, and by the end of June had sold over 630,000 copies at Amazon alone! Scholastic says: "Students fill in numbers, words, and pictures for personalized math tales about counting, addition, subtraction, shapes, time, money, fractions, and more." 20% off Scholastic's price	15 Reproducible Write-And-Read Books Instant Patterns for Easy Predictable Books Your Students Help Write! Kid friendly topics include shapes, opposites, numbers, colors, and more. 20% off Scholastic's price
25 Science Mini-Books Teach science as you build literacy with these fun books with flaps and doors. Emergent readers for integrating your science curriculum with reading. You can use these small books for Guided Reading, too! 20% off Scholastic's price	30 Collaborative Books for Your Class to Make and Share! Easy Patterns & How-To's for Creating a Year's Worth of Thematic Rhyming Books 20% off Scholastic's price	Fun Phonics Manipulatives ~ Quick and Easy Flip Books, Pull Throughs, and Interactive Mini-Books to Make and Share Learn letter/sound correspondence and develop a strong sight word vocabulary with these adorable pull-through phonetic pals, predictable books, and flip-books. 20% off Scholastic's price
Turn to Learn Alphabet Wheels 26 Ready-to-Go Reproducible Patterns That Put a New Spin on Learning the Alphabet 20% off Scholastic's price	Turn to Learn 30 Ready to Reproduce Wheels for Cross Curricular Hands-On Learning! Colors, animals, counting, and more	Books I like books I really do. Books with stories And pictures, too. Books of birds And things that grow Books of people We should know. Books of animals And places, too, I like books I really do!
Ready-To-Go Reproducibles ~ Fun Phonics Cut and Paste Publication date is July 1999 Advance orders accepted and paid when shipped. 20% off Scholastic's price	Ready-to-Go Phonics Games, Manipulatives, Activities, and Rhymes That Make Teaching Phonics Easy and Fun! Ready-to-use and reproducible activities, including Vowel Cheer rhymes and games like alphabet Tic-Tac-Toe, Digraph Puzzlers, and Vowel Pick-and-Peek Great in centers or for independent work.	Ready-To-Go Reproducibles ~ Fun Phonics Mini-Books Publication date is October 1999 Advance orders accepted and paid when shipped. 20% off Scholastic's price
25 Spanish Emergent Reader Mini-Books One of Scholastic's most popular sets of blackline books, now available in Spanish for ESL students. 20% off Scholastic's price	25 Bilingual Mini Books Easy to Make Books for Emergent Readers, in English and Spanish These wonderful books have the text in English and Spanish on each page. Perfect for ESL students and Dual Immersion classrooms, or for teaching cross-cultural awareness along with Spanish vocabulary to your English speaking students. 20% off Scholastic's price	15 Reproducible Spanish Write-And-Read Books Instant Patterns for Easy Predictable Books Your Students Help Write Another popular set of books from Scholastic, now available in Spanish. 20% off Scholastic's price

Looking for more ideas?

My bookstore pages have lots of information on how I use various materials in my classroom, and on activities you can do with your students. The thematic pages are complete unit resources, with lots of poems, songs, and links on each page. Make yourself comfortable and take a look around!

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Underlined subjects are links, the other ones are coming soon!

Top 10 Must Have Books for Teachers	Phonics & Phonemic Awareness	Integrated Curriculum & Balanced Literacy	Reproducible Mini Books for Emergent Readers	Pat Cunningham Books & 4 Blocks Books	Writing & Writer's Workshop
Reading & Guided Reading	Pocket Chart Resources	Songs and Poems	101 Literacy & Math Centers	What's In A Name?	Back to School
Marvelous Math Books	Family Math	Literature for Math	Monthly Themes	I Love My ABC's	Friends
Bears Everywhere	Down on the Farm		Rain Forest	Going Buggy!
Spring Has Sprung!		Come Into Our Garden	A Camping We Will Go!	Under the Sea	A Rainbow of Colors
How to Level Trade Books and others	Snowmen & Mittens		Special Books for Special People reading for pleasure		Scarecrows
Coming Soon!		Nursery Rhymes		Bats & Spiders

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