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How To Make Writing Lessons Fun Using Flip Books

Today I want to talk about how to make writing lessons fun and enjoyable for students. Even with an engaging topic, sometimes writing on a plain piece of paper is just not interesting enough for students. That’s why writing flipbooks can be an excellent way to engage your students in a writing lesson. Let me tell you all about them!

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These are some flip books for January, February, March, and April.

Why flip books?

Flip books are great because they are interactive. After students have finished their writing, they have pictures to color in, pages to cut out, and pieces to glue together. Flip books can add an art/craft element to your lesson.

When complete, flip books are great as bulletin board displays, but they also look good in student workbooks and are exciting for students to take home and show their families.

Here’s the thing. Flip books are like an interactive notebook, which means they are a great way to showcase student learning!

Flip books are ideal for Literacy lessons, Literacy centers, or Writer’s Workshop. However, they can also be used in Science, History, or Geography lessons (depending on the topic).

april easter flip book craft
Who doesn’t love writing fun facts about Easter?
janurary new years flipbook craft
It’s fun to talk about New Year’s celebrations.

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I have a selection of flip book products in my TPT store. I have one product for every month (January through to December). Each product has 5 flip books. This means that I have flip books for every season and holiday/celebration!

The flip books are sometimes for informative topics like ‘Chinese New Year’ or ‘Martin Luther King Jr’. These are great for informational writing lessons. If you are learning about a season, holiday, celebration, or special day, your students can research the topic and then showcase their learning in the flip book.

mlk martin luther king flipbook craft january
earth day april flipbook craft
Flip books are great because they are no prep for you (just print and go) and easy for students to make.

There are also opinion writing flip books for topics like ‘I Love Spring’. Students will think of 3 reasons for any opinion flip book they complete.

There are even procedure (how-to) writing topics like ‘How to Grow a Flower’. This is perfect for when you are teaching procedural writing. Your students can demonstrate their knowledge of how to make or do something. The prompts are ‘first, next, and last’.

february flip books
These flip books are perfect for February lessons.
spring march flipbooks - st patrick's day
These flip books are ideal for March/Spring.

Let your students brainstorm a topic and then create a colorful, interactive, and engaging writing flipbook to showcase their learning and experiences.

An instructional page for teachers (with an example picture) is included for each craft. All the flip books are made the same way in 4 simple steps (color, write, cut, and glue).

However, this is no prep for teachers, so you can print and go! Students will only need the two pages printed, as well as pencils, scissors, and glue.

back to school flipbook - writing craft
cinco de mayo writing craft flipbook
chinese new year flipbook - writing craft

Interested in a freebie?!

If you’d like to try before you buy, check out some of the flipbooks for free here!

free writing flipbooks - freebie writing prompt flip book
Click here to grab these flipbooks for free!

Fun and easy for students

There is lots of engaging clip art for students to color in. This also gives your students ideas for what to write about.

The writing flipbooks are easy to assemble. Students simply layer the boxes on top of each other (from largest to smallest). Each box is numbered. They add glue where it says ‘glue here’.

summer flipbook - writing craft
mother's day flipbook - writing craft

Each writing flipbook comes in two type of lines, dotted and plain. This caters to lots of learners! Here are some examples of the dotted lines in action.

 mother's day may flipbook - writing craft
summer flipbook - writing craft

So, that’s how you can make your writing lessons more engaging and fun for your learners – try a writing flipbook!

After all, learning should be fun, hands on, interactive and engaging, am I right?!

You can access all of the flipbooks that are pictured in this post, grabbing the bundle here.

september fall flipbooks
december winter christmas flipbook - writing craft
october flipbook all about pumpkins halloween writing crafts
november flipbook all about thanksgiving writing craft
november flipbook veteran's day writing craft

If you’d like to try one of my writing flipbooks, I have some good news! I have a free flip book you can download here. It’s a part of my free resource library which I’m sure you’ll love! Students write about how to grow a flower!

free flipbook writing craft how to grow a flower freebie art

P.S – Follow me on Instagram @terrificteachingtactics to see my resources in action!

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