Authors, Illustrators, & Characters, oh my!

I love, love, love using notebooks with my Kindergarten students!

It is such a fun, flexible way to capture student learning. 

ALL of my students can be successful - 

and work at their own level. 

In Reader's Workshop we've been focusing on the parts of a book, authors, illustrators, and characters.

Here are some examples of the awesome learning that is going on in our room. 

parts of a book

An author writes the words.

An illustrator creates the pictures. 

Pout Pout fish inspired by Dan Hannah:

I can draw Pigeon like Mo Willems. 

Characters by Mo Willems:

I can draw David just like David Shannon. 

Click here to read other ways we use our reading notebooks.  

I have added several new prompts to my Reading Notebook labels on TpT. 
There are now 100 prompts that are all tied to the Kindergarten ELA CCS! 
Check it out:

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