Learn Parts of a Book for Kids with Playdough Worksheets

Do your kids love playing with play dough? I know mine do. That is one reason why I love incorporating playdough activities using playdoh mats into other aspects of our learning. So as we were learning what are the parts of a book I decided I’d make playdough mats to learn the parts of a book for kids. Simply print the parts of a book worksheet and set out some playdough to teach preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders the basic parts of a book.

Parts of a Book for Kids

Learning about parts of a book can start with preschoolers, but typically it is taught to Kindergartners and grade 1 students.  This literacy activity is a fabulous back to school activity or part of your literacy book center or library resource. Use the parts of a book printable along with playdough to learn the different parts of a book while having fun! Playdough is not just a fun activity for kids. It is also a wonderful sensory activity for kids of all ages. Squeezing and manipulating the playdough helps kids not only calm down but experience the sensory aspects. This is also a great tool to help strengthen fine motor skills. Rolling playdough into a snake is a great way to help strengthen the muscles and dexterity of the fingers and hands that help kids learn to hold a pencil correctly or tie their shoes.

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Parts of a book worksheet

Start by scrolling to the bottom of the post, under the terms of use, and click on the text link that says >> _____ <<. The parts of a book printable pdf file will open in a new window for you to save the freebie. Now print the pages and cut out the alphabet tiles.

Parts Of A Book

With this activity, multiple fascits are explored while learning about parts of a book. Creativity is encouraged with some of the playdough mats. It asks children to create a cover and illustrations with the playdough. This can be anything their heads can think up, there is no right or wrong.

Prewriting is also touched on. Some of the parts of book vocabulary are written in dotted letters so that children can either write them with a dry erase marker or create them with playdough.

We created these parts of a book worksheets to help kids of all ages learn to identifying the part of the book and the appropriate vocabulary for that part. Children can use crayons, markers, or colored pencils to colour the book. Then trace the name of the part – above the word spine is featured. Now use playdough to covere the part of the book this page is talking about.

Each of the pages are super cute and feature a different title with picture. Have kids read the different book titles in these worksheets.

Basic parts of a book

These words covered in this manner are:

• Book
• Cover
• Author
• Illustrator
• Pages
• Page Number
• Contents (Table Of)
• Spine
• Back Cover

Different parts of a book

If you prefer not to use playdough, these pages are also fabulous as color pages as well.

REview what you’ve learned by completing this Parts of a Book Worksheet page with word bank to remember the key terms.

Once you’ve learned the parts with the parts of a book poster, tracing pages to color, and the worksheet to remember what you’ve learned – children can use the book cover and open book pages to create their own book.

Parts of a book activity

Once you have the pages printed, you can choose to laminate them. This is great when using playdough so that the playdough doesn’t stick to the paper. If you don’t have access to a laminator, we like to use sheet protectors or dry erase pockets. Both of these are great for playdough or dry erase markers.

What are the parts of a book

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