ABSTRACT
Booklets are made up of many pages and therefore show children that stories build, one part upon the next. The booklet provides a concrete way to address story structure, telling one part on each page, making sure the illustrations and the text go together, and other aspects of craft that have to do with organizing and ordering a cohesive story. They learn that writers make decisions about what to include, what to leave out, and how to put the information on each page so readers will understand and want to keep reading. The booklet allows us to address more sophisticated elements of craft as well. This chapter introduces booklets to the whole class at once. It focuses on how to introduce booklets to children individually. The chapter also focuses on introducing booklets using own writing, which will be familiar because it parallels the way that is introduced storytelling using own stories first.
