Hey, I Can Read This!

This book has gone beyond songs, games and finger plays to create one-of-a-kind interactive books for your classroom. These interactive books link original text set to familiar tunes with manipulative pieces that are attached to the book with Velcro. While singing the text, the children move the pieces to their appropriate places within the book. This resource provides reproducible patterns, instructions, and verses for more than 25 interactive books covering language, math, science, geography, and character education, and offers language extension activities too. Make these books for your classroom and watch the reading fun begin.

Donna Sabino Butt has been an early childhood teacher for 11 years, says young children inspire and enlighten her. For six years, she served as a member of her school's Site-Based Decision-Making Council, where she dealt with many child-related issues. Donna graduated with a degree in child development from berea College in Kentucky. Kathy Barlow Thurman has taught for 14 years, 11 of those in preschool and kindergarten classrooms. She was named her county's Teacher of the Year 1999-2000.