The Flip Book is designed to allow users to type and illustrate tabbed flip books up to ten pages long. Students and teachers can use the flip book for taking notes while reading, making picture books, collecting facts, or creating question and answer booklets. Students can choose from nine different layouts for the pages of their books (shown left). A blank flip book is available for demonstration and planning. For additional ideas on how to use this tool, see Tips for Using Flip Book.

Visit this interactive tool at: http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/flipbook/.

ReadWriteThink Lessons That Use This Tool

Characters in Because of Winn-Dixie: Making Lists of Ten (3-5)
Extend students’ brainstormed lists of characteristics for the characters in the novels they read by asking them to develop a list of ten important things about a specific character. Modeled on similar lists created by characters in Kate DiCamillo’s Because of Winn-Dixie, this lesson plan can be used as full class activity or can be tapped as a book report alternative.

Cooking Up Descriptive Language: Designing Restaurant Menus (6-8)
Students explore the genre of menus by analyzing existing menus from local restaurants, including a review of adjectives and descriptive writing based on the language included in the menu examples. After establishing the characteristics of the genre, students work in groups to choose a restaurant and then create their own custom menus.

Critical Perspectives: Reading and Writing About Slavery (3-5)
Through reading fiction and nonfiction children’s literature about the Underground Railroad, students critically explore the moral issues of slavery and the perspectives held by slaves and slave owners. They then use online, interactive tools to extend their understanding through creative writing projects.

Fishing for Readers: Identifying and Writing Effective Opening “Hooks” (3-5)
Students collect and categorize effective introductions in a variety of children’s books. They share and rate their favorite “hooks,” compiling a menu of strategies for their own writing. Students write several alternative hooks for a single story topic and use the Flip Book program to publish them.

How Does My Garden Grow? Writing in Science Field Journals (K-2)
While scientists are working, they often keep journals to document observations, gather information, sketch pictures, write down questions, form a hypothesis, and record reactions. In this lesson plan, students will be keeping their own science field journal as a log of a classroom gardening project.

It's Okay to Be Different: Teaching Diversity With Todd Parr (K-2)
This lesson for first- and second-grade students uses Todd Parr's book It's Okay to Be Different to introduce the topic of diversity. Students participate in discussions designed to encourage empathy and explore the idea of what makes us diverse. They then create books that are meant to help educate their peers.

Let's Read It Again: Comprehension Strategies for English-Language Learners (K-2)
This adaptable lesson for Spanish-speaking second graders learning English uses a bilingual picture book and a variety of reading strategies to help students improve fluency and retain what they have learned.

Literature as a Jumping Off Point for Nonfiction Inquiry  (3-5)
Text sets focus on one topic or subject area, yet include texts of many genres. In this lesson, after reading a novel, here Tuck Everlasting, students choose a topic related to a theme in the novel and work cooperatively to learn more about that topic using a text set. Students will have an opportunity to read and explore many genres, while learning through the content areas.

Looking at Landmarks: Using a Picture Book to Guide Research (3-5)
Using the picture book Ben’s Dream as an inspiration, children put their research skills to work. The book illustrates ten landmarks from around the world, without identifying the names of the landmark. In their related inquiry, students learn more about the monuments presented in the book, publish information about them and share that knowledge with others.

Our Classroom: Writing an Owner’s Manual (3-5)
The first few weeks of school are all about creating rules, establishing routines, and becoming familiar with the classroom. Engaging students in activities that help them get to know their classroom can make the transition easier while at the same time providing students with a sense of ownership. In this lesson, students write an owner’s manual to help them become more familiar with their classroom as well as to let others know about their classroom.

Polishing Preposition Skills through Poetry and Publication (6-8)
Middle grade students deepen and refine their understanding of prepositions through the authentic model of the literature of Ruth Heller. Students publish a poem using the Multigenre Mapper and refine their understanding of more sophisticated preposition use through a Flip Book project.

Prompting Revision through Modeling and Written Conversations  (3-5)
Students create a checklist outlining what effective writers do after watching online videos of authors Kate DiCamillo and Debra Frasier revise their own work.  The teacher then models how to revise his or her own writing using this checklist, and the students read their peers’ work and engage in a written conversation to help one another with the revision process.

Question and Answer Books—From Genre Study to Report Writing (3-5)
This lesson on genre study explores question and answer books to identify their unique characteristics. Students critically read question and answer books, looking at format and content. Students then compare the format of this genre with other nonfiction texts. After conducting research, students publish their findings in the style of a question and answer book.

Rooting out Meaning: Morpheme Match-Ups in the Primary Grades (3-5)
By using word-building cards, an online dictionary, and group activities, students determine the meaning of unfamiliar words and increase their understanding of morphemes.

Shared Poetry Reading: Teaching Print Concepts, Rhyme, and Vocabulary (K-2)
This lesson encourages successful reading by introducing kindergarten students to concepts about print, vocabulary acquisition, and rhyme. Students actively engage in a nursery rhyme, pointing out examples of the concepts being taught and following along during several shared readings.

Students as Creators: Exploring Multimedia (6-8)
In this lesson, students analyze an online multimedia resource as an introduction to the genre. They then create an original multimedia project.

Swish! Pow! Whack! Teaching Onomatopoeia Through Sports Poetry  (6-8)
In this lesson, students will learn about onomatopoeia using the sounds associated with sports. They will read and listen to sports poems, then create their own onomatopoeic sports poems, add illustrations, and compile their work in a flip book. Finally, students will share their flip books with their classmates.

The Solution Square: Strategies for Conflict Resolution (3-5)
This lesson uses literature as a springboard for conversation about friendship and conflict resolution. Students reflect on the strategies that good friends use to resolve conflict and role-play strategies for problem solving.

Using Children’s Natural Curiosity to Lead to Descriptive Writing  (K-2)
Inspired by the book It Starts with an A, kindergarten students are invited to turn their curiosity and guesswork into a class book, complete with illustrated objects and descriptive language. Students can share this book with family members and peers before adding it to their classroom library.

You Know the Movie Is Coming—Now What? (6-8)
Students and teachers often get excited when they hear that a movie version of a favorite book will soon be coming to theaters. What can be done in the classroom to prepare for a viewing of that film? In this lesson, students read a literary text with the eye of a director, selecting scenes from the text and putting a cinematic spin on them.