How to Help Your Child Read:

Strategies, Games, and Research for Reading Success  

                 By Joseph Campbell                                        

Copyright 2000 Joseph Campbell

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Great Idea #3

Make your own books

Children love to tell having their own stories published, and this is an inexpensive way to do it.

Needed:

1. Some cardboard into two 6 inch x 6 inch squares
2. A sheet of white or patterned contact paper.  (Wallpaper samples are also good for this) cut into a 14 inch by 8 inch rectangle. 
3. Two 5 1/2 by 5 1/2 inch white squares
4. Glue
5. Your child's story written on 6 inch by 6 inch paper

Lay the two pieces of cardboard on top of the contact paper (or Wallpaper), so that it is even spaced from the edges.  Leave two inches of space between them in the middle.

Fold the contact paper around the outside edges like you are wrapping a present. and glue them down.

Cover each side with the white squares to hide all the folding.

Fold the book over, and insert the pages of your child's book.  Staple the papers inside the book.

I always find the students enjoyed adding picture pages, title pages, and dedication pages to their books also.

Enjoy!