We finished up on Friday and I am already thinking about next year. Last year, I did not do a great job with shared reading time. I used lots of poems and charts, but not a lot of big books. I may be one of the only kindergarten teachers that dislikes big books, but I can't stand them! I don't have an easel that really works for big books and the big books are just bulky and difficult with the easel I have. I end up ripping the pages by accident, or the book closes and the kinders can't see the pages... Anyway, enough of my anti-big book rant... I guess my point is that I am always searching for different things to use for shared reading.
I have a Smart Board in my classroom and I recently discovered that I can take a document and "print" it into a Smart Notebook file! It takes every page of the document and makes it a page in Notebook. It groups everything on the page as like a picture file so I can't edit it or change it really once I "print" it into Smart Notebook. This opened up a whole new world for me! Now I can take shared reading high-tech. So, I was thinking today about books that I read at the beginning of the year. I thought about
The Kissing Hand and how much fun that is at the beginning of the year. I also love to use
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? So, I thought I could make "big books" for shared reading that go along with these books. And, if you know me at all, you know how much I love pocket charts. So, of course, I had to make the put together sentences for the pocket chart. And, here's what I created. I am excited about using them in the first few weeks of school in August! Hope you like them too!
Click on the links for the whole {FREEBIE} book and activity for
Kissing Hand and for Brown Bear.
