Step Book
Directions: Place two sheets of paper on a flat surface. Pull the top sheet about 1 ½” below the bottom sheet. Fold backwards. Turn over, adjust the fold, and staple.
Two sheets give you four steps that can be used for:
Seasons
Life cycle
Layers of the rain forest
Sequence – first, next, then, last
Three sheets will make a six step book that can be used for:
School, city, state, country, continent, planet
Five senses
Rules
Who? What? Where? When? Why?
Four sheets make an eight page book for:
Days of the week
Planets in the solar system
Color spectrum (Roy G. Biv)
Continents
Facts
Main idea and supporting details.
How To
Children write steps for cooking, doing an art project, making
a snowman, and so forth.
Accordion Book
Take a sentence strip and fold in half, fourths, eights. Now fold back and forth like a fan.
Another accordion book can be made by folding a sheet of paper into sixteenths. Cut on the dotted lines as shown. Bend back and forth to make an accordion book.
Use for: letters, numerals
sequencing
concept books