Make-Your-Own Books

 

Wednesday is officially now a special theme day for Bilingual Reading Blog. The focused theme is on artful reading and includes finding and discovering crafts and art activities related to specific bilingual books. For starters, we will focus on make-your-own , printable books in a black-and-white coloring style.

A great resource for these interactive books is Reading A-Z. This website has a plethora of bilingual English/Spanish printable books that can be printed and viewed in color or in black-and-white. 

Books are leveled starting from aa, A, B, C, D ...Z, zz, zzz allowing for a vast range of learning levels. Each book has an English and a Spanish edition, with an occasional French edition. 

   Here is an example of the English edition and Spanish edition of one of the level C books from     

   Reading A-Z. This particular book is offered in color only. You can actually read a copy of both the    English and Spanish book on the Reading A-Z website. 

Image Credit: Reading A-Z

Image Credit: Reading A-Z

Reading A-Z has a yearly membership with unlimited downloads for $109.95 per year. While expensive, hundreds of books are available at various levels. Another option is the free monthly trial with a limited amount of downloads where you can take a look at several of the books and the accompanying resources. 

A similar, less expensive option is to have students create and illustrate their own stories in Spanish and English and then share them with classmates. This incorporates writing, reading and speaking all in one. Here is an example of the first page of a bilingual book I have written myself. 

Image Credit: Personal Photo

These are only a few of the options out there. If you have a website or company you are fond of that adequately covers the same scope, go ahead and share a comment about it. I look forward to hearing your ideas.