What's in a Book?

Kindergarten Reading, ESL

by Jasmine Gibson June 25, 2018

Your EL's will learn all about the parts of a book while praciticing their listening and speaking skills. Can be used
as a stand alone or support lesson.

Objectives

Objectives

Academic

Students will be able to identify parts of a book.

Language

Students will be able to identify parts of a book verbally and through diagram labeling.

Materials and preparation Key terms

A pre-made large drawing to be used as a class TIER 1

anchor chart (on chart paper or whiteboard) of
a book with the different parts labeled and book: Sheets of paper, blank or with writing or
written clearly (should follow the format of the pictures, that are put together between two covers.
parts of a book worksheet)
Class set of the Anatomy of a Book worksheet picture: A painting, drawing, or photograph.
Class set of the Parts of a Book worksheet
Glue TIER 2
Scissors
cover: Something that you put on something to
Several familiar read aloud picture books
protect it.
Class set of the Glossary
Class set of Vocabulary Cards TIER 3

author: A person who writes books, stories, plays, or

other works.

illustrator: An artist who makes illustrations for

books or other written works.

title: A name of something such as a book, movie, or

piece of music.

Attachments

Anatomy of a Book (PDF)

Parts of a Book (PDF)
Glossary: Identifying Parts of a Book (PDF)
Vocabulary Cards: Identifying Parts of a Book (PDF)

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Introduction (5 minutes)

Play a round of "head, shoulders, knees, and toes" with your students.
Refer to the stack or books you selected for this lesson and say, "What do we call these?""Allow students
to say the word "books" aloud, and prompt them to say "books" as needed.
Explain that just like we have different body parts (head, shoulders, knees, toes) books also have
different parts. Tell your students that today they will be learning about the different parts of a book.

Building Academic Language

Word (10 minutes)

Display the pre-made labled class anchor chart of a book to the class.
Group students in pairs and pass out one familiar book to each pair.
Point to the different labels (one at a time) shown on both the labeled book and a real book (using
modeling). Say the term aloud, providing the student a friendly defition provided in the glossary.
Ask the students to repeat each term and then find the matching part of the book using their own books,
along with their partner. For example, "Here is the title on my book, can you find the title on your book
and point to it?"
Check that students are able to identify all the parts of the book, and correct students as needed.

Discourse (7 minutes)

Hold up a book and ask students to bring their attention back to the front of the room and the book you
are holding.
Ask students to think about why it is important to know the different parts of a book by saying, "Why
might I want to know who wrote this book?" Then, model thinking aloud by answering your question
saying, "I could learn if the author wrote more stories like this one by knowing who the author is."
Repeat this process by asking questions about the title, illustrator, front/back cover, and spine (as time
allows).
Ask students to turn to a partner and think-pair-share using the sentence frame, "I could learn ____ by
knowing ____ about the book."

Additional EL adaptations

BEGINNING

Work with a small group of students to practice finding and verbally stating the different parts of a book,
using real books as models.

ADVANCED

Have students complete the Anatomy of a Book worksheet and share it with a partner to check their
work.

Formative Assessment of Academic Language (10 minutes)

Pass out the Parts of a Book worksheet and have the students refer back to the class anchor chart to
support them as they complete the worksheet independently.
Assess whether students were able to accurately find and label each part of the book shown on the
worksheet.

Review and closing (3 minutes)

Close the lesson by picking up a favorite class read aloud and saying, "It is so helpful to know the parts of
this book! Now I can learn who drew the pictures, who wrote the words, and which side of the book to
start reading!"

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Name: Date:

Anatomy of a Book
Label the pictures below to show which part of a book they are. Write
front cover, back cover, or title page on the lines under the pictures.

All About
DOGS “All About
Dogs” is a
great book
to read if you like
dogs!

by James Retriever

All About
DOGS

Written by
James Retriever Summer is the
Illustrated by
best season!
Charles Spaniel

My Summer My Summer
Day
Day

Written by
Sunshine Poole

Illustrated by
Fern Camp by Sunshine Poole

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 parts of a book
Cut out the names from the bottom of the page and paste it on the book to label the parts of this book.

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Title Pages ISBN Spine Author

Back Cover Illustration Front Cover Illustrator

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Glossary for EL Support Lesson Plan:
Identifying Parts of a Book

Word Definition Visual

Sheets of paper, blank or

with writing or pictures, that
book are put together between
two covers.

author A person who writes books,

stories, plays, or other works.

An artist who makes

illustrator illustrations for books
or other written works.

A painting, drawing,
picture or photograph. oak pine

Something that you put

cover on something to protect it.

A name of something
title such as a book, movie,
or piece of music.

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 Vocabulary Cards
EL Support Lesson: Identifying Parts of a Book

book author

Sheets of paper, blank or

A person who writes
with writing or pictures,
books, stories, plays, or
that are put together
other works.
between two covers.

illustrator picture

oak pine

An artist who makes

A painting, drawing, or
illustrations for books or
photograph.
other written works.

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 Vocabulary Cards
EL Support Lesson: Identifying Parts of a Book

cover title

Something that you put A name of something

on something to such as a book, movie,
protect it. or piece of music.

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