TITLE: Create an Alphabet Book
AUTHOR: Carolyn Creger, Natrona County School, Casper, WY
GRADE LEVEL/SUBJECT: K-12, many subjects
OVERVIEW: Making an alphabet book on any topic is a fun
learning experience for students K-12. The idea can be used
in many subjects.
PURPOSE: To help students learn a topic through research,
drawing, and the production of a finished product.
OBJECTIVES: As a result of this activity, the students will
be very familiar with their topic and will have used some
thinking skills, research skills, art skills, and
cooperative skills.
RESOURCES/MATERIALS: Alphabet books or access to library,
dictionaries, encyclopedias, paper, pencil, crayons or other
media.
ACTIVITIES AND PROCEDURES:
1. Look at alphabet books, specifically ANIMALIA by
Grahame Base.
2. Assign letters of the alphabet to individuals,
partners, or groups. Topics could be: invertebrates,
chemicals, compounds, toys, countries, adverbs,
adjectives, cities, plants, people, etc.
3. Do research, if need be, to find the core word for the
page. Brainstorming could be done for this.
4. Create a sentence for the page that includes a noun,
verb, adjective and adverb plus other words if wanted.
Brainstorm and do research to find these.
5. Design a page for the book putting as many pictures of
items beginning with that letter as appropriate plus
the sentence.
ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES: Exchange pictures and have someone
else list all the words with that letter, make an index for
the book, write authors of alphabet books, compare and
contrast alphabet books, present the finished books to the
library and other classes, lower grades share their books
with upper grades, secondary students share their books with
elementaries if appropriate or with other classes, posters
made by students instead of a book, lists made by students
for each letter and posted.
TYING IT ALL TOGETHER: Enjoy and discuss the finished
product.
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