Here is the Drop Box public link to my UDL Book Builder book project.
My book is called “You are Never Too Little to Help around the House”. It is part of a four book series (theoretically) which would include other books entitled “You are Never Too Little to Help around the Yard”, “You are Never Too Little to Help in Your School” and “You are Never To Little to Help in Your Community”.
This book is intended for first graders and includes a list of the Dolch sight words for first grade. The ELA teacher I am working with uses the Dolch list as a guide and her reading program incorporates these words in every book. In addition she uses what are called “Challenge Words” in each book and the students have a different list of challenge words that they are tested on weekly, in addition to the sight words. I have included several of these challenge words in my book.
I have asked the reader questions at the bottom of each page. They can either type in the space to respond or use the questions to have conversations about the book with classmates or the teacher. The teacher would use this area for guided questions and to check for understanding. In addition teachers could use this book in the social studies curriculum. Part of that curriculum is learning about community and community helpers. These books would be perfect for that topic.
The idea for the book came from my daughter who is in second grade. She helps around the house quite a bit but was complaining that none of her other friends have to do chores. We discussed the idea of helping your family around the house and that gave me the idea to do this particular story. I included pictures of my daughter doing what she does every day to help.
For the images, I took pictures of my daughter and edited them with filters in Adobe Photoshop to make them look more stylized and colorful. I then added a stroke (border) around a few and created a collage for one of the pages.
To improve this book I would work on the images a bit more. I would also try to include more hyperlinks to information. It was a fun project and I will try to finish the series of books in Book Builder at some future time.
I thought you did an excellent job on your book! I think it is an excellent message to teach students. Often times young children will say they cannot do something because they are too little. This is limiting their potential, regardless of what they are saying they cannot do. I had a student in kindergarten who said they could not tie their shoe because they were too little. After sitting down with him and working with him for a week, he was able to tie his shoe. I think you book and the other 3 you mentioned are such a wonderful idea!! Great job!
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