Point out that every book has
a Title: What the book is called
An Author: The person who writes the words in the book
An Illustrator: The person who creates the pictures in the book,
And Characters: The people, or animals that the story is all about.
Talk about some of the books you loved when you were a child, and ask them if they have any favorites.
Read 2 or 3 books to your children and ask them the following questions
What was the title of this book?
Who were the characters?
What do you think of the illustrations?
How do you think he/she made the illustrations? (Painted? Colored? Used cut outs? etc)
Point out that one of the great things about stories is that the author can make anything happen in them, even if it can't happen in real life. Ask if they noticed the characters doing anything in the story, that people/animals probably wouldn't be able to do in real life.
ACTIVITY: BOOK BINGO
Set up 5 rows of children's books (5 books in each row) that the you have read to the children at one time or another.
Use Shoes or anything else around the house as your Bingo markers.
To Play:
Describe a book in one of the rows by talking about the characters, or the story line. For instance: "I'm thinking of a book that has a character who is very mean and tries to kill a princess with a poisenous apple."
Or "This book teaches us to take good care of animals" or "The illustrations in this book were made with playdoh"
Have children take turns putting their marker on the book you are describing.
Tell them when they have laid down 5 markers in a row, they should yell BINGO!!!
Keep on going for a blackout!
