Amberly Media Center

September 11-19

How do we identify books? We look on the cover and expect to find the name of the author, possibly the name of the illustrator, and also the name of the book or the title. These are the first three words on our library media word wall.

For practice, each student created the cover of a book of their own design. They put their own name in place of the author. They created an descriptive title. They also added a cover illustration.

Next we “shelved” these books by author’s last name. Then on that shelf, students found four other books by authors that have a last name with the same first letter and recorded the authors’ names and the books’ titles on a worksheet.

We also learned that titles and authors’ names are usually capitalized.