Linking up today with the fabulous Mrs. McClain because you oughta know about BARE BOOKS!
A few months ago for the “You Oughta Know” blog hop, I wrote about a great online tool for making books and motivating your students to WRITE: Student Treasures.
Well, today I am sharing another writing motivator for your classroom: BARE BOOKS!
Bare Books is a great website that sells BARE books, puzzles, and game boards.
I used Bare Books when I taught a summer writing class at my school. It was SO much fun and kiddos LOVED it!
I used a few writing lessons I created, along with these FREE Common Core writing graphic organizers, to help students come up with their pieces. Here are a few pictures of them enjoying the art of writing!
They sell books with blank covers and covers with drawings.
They have books with lines and books without lines. I used a composition book to help my students with their prewriting, rough draft, and editing. They created their final pieces in the Bare Books.
Bare Books offers project ideas for their products too!
Even though they can be a little pricey, it’s worth the cost to enhance your students’ imagination. Maybe there are funds at your school to help may for the cost of the books, or your PTA can help you buy books for your students. As teachers, we know spending money, and LOTS of money, is all part of the job!
Wow! Those are awesome! I know some students who would really love doing that. Now I want to him of a project for it! 🙂
What a great idea! I have had kids design their own and print them as photobooks before, but that can be even pricier than this. I love it- and I'm sure they love being "published!"
Mandy
Caffeine and Lesson Plans
How cool! Such a great way to encourage a love of writing. I know my kinders would be thrilled to create these books!
Mrs. Plemons' Kindergarten
Amazing!!! I am Literacy Co-ordinator at my school and writing is always high priority! I just know the kids would love these- I only hope they will ship to the UK!!! I'm off to their site now to investigate- thanks millions Xx
This is amazing for writing! Thanks for sharing and thanks for joining the blog hop 🙂
Jasmine
Buzzing With Mrs. McClain
Genius idea!
Teaching, Love, Cupcakes
A professor of mine in college had us use Bare Books for a project, but I have never thought of having students publish their work in one! That would be such an awesome way to show progress from the beginning of the year through the end. Since I'm terrible at keeping up with papers, I think I might be able to keep up with a whole book. lol I'll definitely need to stock up on these for next year. Thanks for sharing!
Kelsey
Simply Magical Learning