Writing & Publishing Prose
Flip Book
Grades
3 - 12
About this Interactive
Overview
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.
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Implementing the Writing Process
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The first English printer, William Caxton, was born on this day in 1422.
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How Does My Garden Grow? Writing in Science Field Journals
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Students plant a garden and study its growth using the inquiry process of questioning and exploring. As they research and study, students record their observations in a field journal.
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You Know the Movie is Coming—Now What?
6 - 8
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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.
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Swish! Pow! Whack! Teaching Onomatopoeia Through Sports Poetry
6 - 8
Lesson Plan
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Students explore poetry about sports, looking closely at the use of onomatopoeia. After viewing a segment of a sporting event, students create their own onomatopoeic sports poems.
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Blogtopia: Blogging about Your Own Utopia
9 - 12
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Students work together to create their own utopias, using blogs as the primary source of publication.
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Shared Poetry Reading: Teaching Print Concepts, Rhyme, and Vocabulary
K - 2
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The rhyme and reason behind this lesson is that students will need to develop important reading skills to increase their reading fluency.
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When I Was Young In...A Literature to Language Experience
6 - 8
Lesson Plan
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Past meets present in this lesson in which students practice verb tense when they write personal short stories that they then publish in a flip book.
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Fishing for Readers: Identifying and Writing Effective Opening "Hooks"
3 - 5
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Good writers "hook" their readers in the very first sentences. In this lesson, students learn how to cast an attention-grabbing hook in their writing to effectively draw in readers' attention.
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Let's Read It Again: Comprehension Strategies for English-Language Learners
K - 2
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Help Spanish-speaking English-language learners unlock the mysteries of their new language by using a bilingual book to recognize unfamiliar words and construct meaning from the text.
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Using Children's Natural Curiosity to Lead to Descriptive Writing
K - 2
Lesson Plan
| Minilesson
Inspired by the book It Begins with an A, kindergarten students are invited to turn their curiosity and guesswork into a class book, complete with illustrated objects and descriptive language
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Question and Answer Books--From Genre Study to Report Writing
3 - 5
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After exploring several question and answer books on a variety of topics, students research a topic and create their own class question and answer book.
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Looking at Landmarks: Using a Picture Book to Guide Research
3 - 5
Lesson Plan
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This lesson uses Ben's Dream by Chris Van Allsburg to highlight ten major landmarks of the world. Students research the landmarks and present their findings to the class.
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Cooking Up Descriptive Language: Designing Restaurant Menus
6 - 8
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Students explore the menu genre by analyzing existing menus from local restaurants. They review adjectives and descriptive writing and then work in groups to create their own custom menus.
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Literature as a Jumping Off Point for Nonfiction Inquiry
3 - 5
Lesson Plan
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Students use text sets to research a topic inspired by a fiction book they have read. A text set is a collection of multiple text genres with a single focus.
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Our Classroom: Writing an Owner's Manual
3 - 5
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Students write an owner's manual that helps them get to know their classroom, provides them with a sense of ownership, and lets others know about their classroom.
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Characters in Because of Winn-Dixie: Making Lists of Ten
3 - 5
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
The list of ten things about Opal's absent mother that her father shares in Because of Winn-Dixie serves as inspiration for students to create their own lists describing literary characters.
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Students as Creators: Exploring Multimedia
6 - 8
Lesson Plan
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Students are introduced to the genre of multimedia presentations through a review and analysis of online presentations. They then apply what they have learned to create their own multimedia presentations.
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Polishing Preposition Skills through Poetry and Publication
6 - 8
Lesson Plan
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Students deepen and refine their understanding of prepositions by reading Ruth Heller's Behind the Mask. They write preposition poetry and create a study guide using an online tool.
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Creative Writing in the Natural World: A Framing
4 - 8
Lesson Plan
| Minilesson
Students practice writing detailed, sensory-rich descriptions by framing a small piece of nature and freewriting about it. From this minilesson, students can develop a variety of types of writing.