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Can You Find It?

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Plan a Parts of a Book scavenger hunt. Begin by giving your young adventurers a book, and asking them to find the title, author, illustrator, and table of contents. After a discussion of the purpose of each of these items, class members create their own book covers with this information depicted. 

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illustrators, illustrations, the table of contents, the parts of a book, authors, fiction, nonfiction, titles

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author, illustrator, table of contents, title, elements of a book, parts of a book, fiction, nonfiction, english language arts
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Grade
K - 3rd
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Type
Lesson Plans
Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
1 hr
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Choral Response
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Year
2003

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