Max's Words

Max's Words
Kate Banks - author
Boris Kulikov - illustrator


Max's brothers are collectors of coins and stamps, but Max doesn't collect anything. He decides to collect something, anything. He finally decides to collect words. He carefully selects them from all sorts of print materials and then sorts them by category: colors, foods, small ones, big ones. He then gets very creative with the collection in this charming story that is must for pre and early readers.

Activities for this book might include:
1. Children can be given magazines and newspapers to find words that are of interest to them.
3. Construct a paper tree using strips of construction paper or paper bag. Glue the tree on a sheet of construction paper. Have the children cut out leaves and glue words from magazines on the leaves. They can decorate the remaining portion of the sheet of paper.
3. In a classroom, create a large tree on a bulletin board. Children can find their favorite words in magazines and affix them on the tree. Students can also glue the definitions to the words on an adjoining leaf on the tree.
4. Provide the students with construction paper and library pockets. Children can draw a picture using the pocket as a shirt pouch, jeans or any appropriate wearing apparel. Children can periodically add words to the pocket and then use them in their writings or simply use them to write sentences
5. Each child can add words to a journal or a little home-made book. They might be specific designations of words such as descriptive, synonyms, sensory, etc.
6. Select some words from the book and list them on chart paper. Children can think of synonyms to use for the words.
7. Allow children to select a passage in the book to illustrate.
8. Research other books the author has written and read them.

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Kate Banks has also written teh following books:
The Eraserheads