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class made books
By Michele

We make a class book every week or so, I try to have enough for each student to have one at the end of the year. These are re-written stories (today we did a re-make of Dog's Don't Wear Sneakers by Laura Joffe Numeroff)
At any rate, how I do it is: I read the story to my kids, then we talk about the different aspects of the story (author's purpose, different writing strategies- obviously in first grade terms). We brainstorm different ideas: in the book Dog's Don't wear... many different animals try wearing lots of outfits and doing different things. It has rhyming words and a definite rhythm, so it was

easy to write blank pages and have the kids fill in the blanks. (Mine looked like ___________ don't _______ _______. And ___________ don't _________ ____________. ) The kids did 1 page...for instance Bears don't play basketball (illustration of a bear playing basketball).

I try to use books that are really rhythmic and easy to change the wording. I ALWAYS put that the book was re-written based on the origional title and author.