Lap Book Folder Fun for the Caldecott Award Winning Book

Where the Wild Things Are

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What are lapbooks?

A lapbook is basically a booklet you create with a central theme, that can be held on your lap. Most lap books are created on file folders so they can be closed and stored away. We use a file folder and a pocket folder to create our lapbooks, this unit provides all of the cut outs you need to create a lap book like the sample on the following pages.

Pocket file folder, file folder, glue, two small envelopes, brad, markers, crayons, computer printer,

What you will need

Staple the file folder inside the pocket folder. Only print out the pages you need. You can print on colored paper to make your folder fun more interesting or use markers to write the titles on the pages. You can also fill in the white background area with colored paper to make a nicer looking booklet.
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The Whole Thing

Here are sample pictures of each part of the fun folder.

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Front Cover

Print out a black and white copy of the cover of the book. Have students color the picture. Now glue it flat onto the front cover of the pocket file folder.

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Inside pocket folder left top On the top half of this page you will make a

shutter book. Cut out the pattern. Glue it onto the top half of the folder page. Glue the words in the four boxes onto each of the four small tabs on the outside. Inside glue a picture from the internet that the words describe.

Max

is a

Wild

Thing!

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Inside pocket folder left bottom pocket Matching game; Cut out the shapes on the

next two pages. Have the student put them together with their match. Once that activity is done, put the pieces into a small envelope that is labeled Matching Game. Slip the envelope into the pocket on the bottom inside left side of the pocket folder. Cut out the strip with the words Matching Game and glue it on the outside of the pocket.

Max

Forest

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Matching Game

Sailboat

Wild Thing

Crown

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Front file folder top Question and answers.

Cut out the shapes with the questions on them. Glue them onto the front of the file folder. Cut out the shapes with the answers in them and glue the correct answer inside the correct shape. Glue the Questions and Answers strip on the top of the folder page.

Fold along this line Fold along this line

Why did Max get called Wild thing?

How did Max and the Wild Things behave?

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Bottom Put glue here and attach to the folder page

Bottom Put glue here and attach to the folder page

Fold along this line

Fold along this line

Who did Max tell he would eat up?

What did Max use to get to the Wild Things?

Questions and Answers

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Bottom Put glue here and attach to the folder page

Bottom Put glue here and attach to the folder page

Fold along this line

Where did a forest grow?

When did Max give up being King?

Wild

He made mischief.

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Mother

A private boat.

In Maxs room.

When he smelled good things to eat.

Glue these answers inside the shapes with the questions.

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File folder front bottom Students will cut out the boxes below.

Glue the smaller box with the correct answer to tell the name of the main character, the main scene, the main problem and the solution for the story into the larger boxes. Now glue them all onto the bottom half of the front of the inside file folder.

Max

bedroom forest Main Scene

Max acts wild Main Problem

Max gets tired of being Main Solution

Main Character

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Inside left file folder top Students will create pictures of the main character and
their favorite scene of the book. Cut out the frames. You can cut out more if you make them smaller. Students illustrate in them. Then glue them on the left file folder. At the top glue the Picture Gallery strip.

Picture Gallery

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Inside left file folder bottom

Cut out the pattern for the accordian book along the outside edge. Have students draw pictures or write sentences that tell the main events of the story in order in the book, then fold in a fan like fashion. Glue the book onto the bottom half of the inside leftfile folder page. Glue the Illustrated Story strip above it.

Illustrated Story

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Inside right file folder Print out the book report page. Have student

complete the book report. Glue it flat onto the inside right file folder. Glue the Book Report strip above it.

Book Report

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Title ________________________________ Author:______________________________ Illustrator:____________________________ Main character:________________________ Main setting: _________________________ What story is about:____________________ ____________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________ ________________________________________ ________________________________________ My favorite part:_______________________ ____________________________________ ___________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________
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Back file folder top

To make a sequence of events wheel, print out the circle below. Cut away one triangle section. Then cut out the wheel on the next page. Attach the first wheel to the top of the second wheel with a brad so that it can spin. Finally, glue the whole wheel onto the top section of the file folder. Then the student cuts out the squares and glues the sentences over the number in the triangles on the bottom wheel in the order they occurred in the story. Glue the Sequence Wheel strip on the page. Put pictures from the internet on the other triangles on the wheel of characters in the book.

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Max wore his wolf suit and said, Ill eat you up.

A forest grew in Maxs room and Mail sailed on a boat. Max smelled good things and sailed back home.

Max met the wild things and he tamed them. Max found dinner waiting for him in his room..

They all had a rumpus and Max was made king of the wild things.

Sequence Wheel

6 5 4
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1 2 3

Back file folder bottom On the bottom half of this page you will make a
Who did it? flap book. Cut out the pattern. Glue the solid square section onto the bottom half of the folder page. Have the student glue the words in the four boxes onto the solid square underneath the lift tab with the correct question. Glue the Who Did It? slip above it.

Who Did It?

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Who sent Max to his room? Who had a rumpus? Who gnashed their teeth? Who felt lonely?

Mother Max and the Wild Things The Wild Things Max

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Inside right pocket folder top Make a layered handwriting book by printing

out the next page. Have students write in their best handwriting the words next to each box. Then glue the boxes together on the top of the inside right pocket folder page as indicated in the picture and directions so that the pages can be lifted one at a time. Glue the Handwriting strip above it.

Handwriting

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_____________________________________

________________ ________________________

Write these words in the boxes 1. Wild thing! 2. Ill eat you up! 3. Let The rumpus begin! 4. Dont go, we love you so!

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Inside right pocket folder bottom pocket Print out a picture from the story that you find on the
internet or that you copy in color from the book so it is as big as an 8 1/2 by 11 page. Glue it onto the front of a piece of cardboard. Glue the puzzle pattern onto the back of the cardboard. Then cut out the puzzle pattern side. Have student put the puzzle together. When complete, put the puzzle pieces into a small envelope marked Puzzle Pieces. Glue the strip marked Puzzle Pieces on the bottom pocket, and put the envelope inside the pocket.

Puzzle Pieces

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Back pocket folder On this side of the folder, you will just want to put the students name, age and school grade in marker at the bottom of the folder. Now your folder fun project is done. You can store it away for later.

Illustrated Story

Sequence Wheel

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Matching Game Questions and Answers

Picture Gallery Puzzle Pieces Handwriting

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Who Did It?

Book Report