My Christmas Book About the Nativity

Looking for a way to teach the nativity story? Use this KinderLit book so that each student will have their very own copy to take home and read. The children will write the high frequency words "I" "the" and "who" on the pages before collaging the illustrations as well as tracing over a dotted word for each of the following:

✞Mary

✞donkey

✞star

✞oxen

✞shepherd

✞Baby Jesus

✞Three Wise Men

✞children who celebrate Christmas

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Included is a writing journal!

Your children can write about each of the above people and animals in a journal! There are two different page formats, one for listing 3 facts - great for beginner writers. The other set has dotted writing lines for a narrative story. This set works well with first and second graders.

If you wish, you can purchase the journals separately here: Journal Writing About the First Christmas

A must for Christian schools!

Your students can create their own copy of this book!

Included are all the reproducible blackline masters, full directions, and a color photo page showing the completed pages of the book.

The children create a page a day, using the collage technique.  The students follow directions to create the illustration out of construction paper.  Included are the complete cutting directions for making circles and ovals from squares and rectangles by trimming off the corners.   All you do is cut squares and rectangles on your paper cutter for the pages.  The rest is up to the children!  Very little teacher time for prepping and no patterns or tracers to create! 

There is at least one word on each page for the students to write.  We sound the word out together as a class and then the children can copy it from the board or try sounding it out themselves.

When we are finished with the book, we use it at our reading station in place of the published books from our reading program before sending the books home. The teacher's copy can be laminated and placed in the class library for the children to read over and over during the year. The children love using their own books and take great pride in them!

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