Big Books

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Big Books
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Purpose of Big Books

• Reading Big Books together is non-threatening
  social learning activity.
• They show students how to read naturally, with
  understanding, for enjoyment.
• They are an enjoyable way of introducing
  beginning readers to the written form of their
  language.
• They can be read many times so children can
  develop the concept of story.

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Characteristics of Big Books

• They are BIG! Should be A-3 size or larger
• Pictures are big, easy to understand and are
  clearly related to the text (so students can
  read the pictures).
• Text is large readable.
• Story type is familiar, acceptable interesting
  to the learners.
• Language is natural memorable with predictable
  text and lots of repetition.

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Using Big Books

• Read the story (can read many times)
• asks WHO, WHAT, WHEN, HOW,WHY questions AND
  ask each other questions
• re-tell the story
• act out the story
• change the ending of the story
• change the characters in the story

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Other activities with Big Books

• Oral cloze activities
• Matching word activity
• Matching sentence activity
• Make-a-sentence activity
• draw their own picture about the story and add
  their own text share their story with others

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Steps in Making a Big Book

• 1) Write edit the Big Book story
• 2) Have someone else check content, language,
  spelling and handwriting
• 3) Put text and pictures onto A-3 paper in pencil
  
• 4) Proofread one last time, make corrections
• 5) Go over text and pictures using a black
  marking pen. Leave space at the bottom of the
  page for page numbers

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• 6) Make a small Guide Book or dummy to show you
  how the pages will be put together
• 7) When you are SURE that you have the pages
  correctly ordered, put double pages in order
  tape the double pages together
• 8) Make the cover (picture, title)
• 9) Tape the cover page onto the cardboard cover.
  Tape around all the edges
• 10) Fasten front and back covers together, using
  masking tape and several layers of duct tape
• 11) Tape inside pages together
• 12) Check the order of pages one last time. Then
  sew the inside pages to the covers.
• 13) Tape over the string with final layer of duct
  tape.

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