Publish a Book

Plan a story, create characters, write and revise a draft, illustrate every page, then bind a real book and read it at an author reading.

Your week

• Day 1: What makes a story · Make: Plan a story map
• Day 2: Creating characters · Make: Character trading card
• Day 3: Writing the draft · Make: Draft day (plan, draft, revise, edit)
• Day 4: Illustrating · Make: Picture pages and cover
• Day 5: Publishing · Make: Bind the book and hold an Author Reading

Choose your edition

• K–2 Edition ($9.99): the full week with story-order, feeling-word and fix-the-sentence worksheets for kindergarten through 2nd grade
• 3–5 Edition ($9.99): the full week with reading passages and worksheets on story elements, character, revising and editing for 3rd through 5th grade
• Family Edition ($14.99): both worksheet levels, for siblings across K–5

What's inside

• Word-for-word parent guide for every day (SAY, ASK and DO cues)
• Full-color picture pages and illustrated project steps
• Book printables: story map, front cover, title page, story pages with K–2 and 3–5 lines, and an About the Author page
• Leveled worksheets with answer keys
• 20 printable flashcards and three review games
• Word search, five coloring pages and a mini-reader
• Field trip ideas, a field trip journal, certificate and book list

Supplies are things you already have: paper, crayons or markers, index cards, a stapler and tape or a hole punch and yarn.

Printable PDF. One purchase covers every child in your family.