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Reading Supplements:Creating the Book

Word ListsFlashcardsQ&A Games

Copyright © Joycebelle, 2009 The Creative Dot Reading Supplement: Stories behind the book, Word Lists, Flashcards, Q&A Games

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Stories Behind the Story

Dedication:The Creative Dot:This book is dedicated to children everywhere.

Creating the Book

A dot can be a fascinating thing. This book helps young children discover dots around them. The author, Joycebelle, awoke one morning at dawn with the little dot rhyme buzzing around her head. Just as it was about to fly away, she grabbed a pen and paper and jotted it down. A year or so later, she found it as she was cleaning out a drawer in her nightstand. She read it, was amazed by it and entered it into the computer as a little poem.

A couple of years later, she sent it to her artist friend, Jessie Powers, who illustrated each line with line drawings. Joycebelle created the cover and art for a few pages with computer graphics and published it as a book, then recorded it as an audio book and as a talking animated picture electronic-book. What fun!.

This is the first of four word books Joycebelle has written. The Fine Line – books one and two and The Bouncing Ball. She has a list of other ones she wants to write, someday. Word are so fun to explore If you want to write a rhyming word book, please give it a try. Also enter it in the ongoing contest on www.goodstorycontest.com.

The Creative Dot Reading Fun Supplement Word List

The Creative Dot Word List: 314 Words in the book - 93 individual Words A

ALL

AND

AROUND

AT

BALANCED

BE

BEING

BIG

BROOM

BUTTERFLY

BY

CAN

CHASED

CHEEKS

CLOWN’S

COLD

COW

CREATIVE

DOT

DOWN

DRAW

FAT

FIN

FISH’S

FUNNY

GLEE

GLEE

GOING

GOT

GROUND

HEE

HEN

HIGH

HOT

HOUND

I’VE

IN

INTO

IS

ITS

JUMPED

LADYBUG

LITTLE

LONG

LOOKING

LOT

MATTER

ME

MOO

MOON

MY

NIGHT

NO

NOON

NOT

OH

ON

OR

PAPER

PEAKS

POKING

POLKA DOT RED

ROLLING

ROOM

ROUND

‘ROUND

SEE

SHOCK

SOCK

SUN

THAT

THE

THIN

TOO

TREE

‘TWEEN

TWIN

UP

WAY

WHAT

WHY

YOU

Rhymes SEE ME TREE ME GROUND AROUND HOUND MOO TOO HOT DOT LOT THIN HEN FIN HIGH BUTTERFLY NOON MOON HEE GLEE CHEEKS ‘TWEEN TWIN PEAKS

ROOM BROOM SOCK SHOCK ME HEE GLEE DOT LOT DOT WHAT DOT GOT DOT NOT

Alliteration Round Red Fish’s Fin

The Creative Dot

Use the following flashcards to identify key words in the story.

Scroll through the words and speed read them as fast as you can.

Combine these word flashcards with picture flashcards to give clues to readingthe words.

Use a stop watch to time the action.

Print and cut apart as cards.

A ALL AND

AROUND AT BALANCED

BE BEING BIG

BROOM BUTTERFLY BY

CAN CHASED CHEEKS

CLOWN’S COLD COW

CREATIVE DOT DOWN

DRAW FAT FIN

FISH’S FUNNY GLEE

GLEE GOING GOT

GROUND HEE HEN

HIGH HOT HOUND

I’VE IN INTO

IS ITS JUMPED

LADYBUG LITTLE LONG

LOOKING LOT MATTER

ME MOO MOON

MY NIGHT NO

NOON NOT OH

ON OR PAPER

PEAKS POKING POLKA DOT RED

ROLLING ROOM ROUND

‘ROUND SEE SHOCK

SOCK SUN THAT

THE THIN TOO

TREE ‘TWEEN TWIN

UP WAY WHAT

WHY YOU

SEE ME TREE

ME GROUND AROUND

HOUND MOO TOO

HOT DOT LOT

THIN HEN FIN

HIGH BUTTERFLY NOON

MOON HEE GLEE

CHEEKS ‘TWEEN TWIN

PEAKS ROOM BROOM

SOCK SHOCK ME

HEE GLEE DOT

LOT DOT WHAT

DOT GOT DOT

NOT

The Creative Dot

Use the following picture flashcards to color and to write your own story.

Combine them with the word flashcards to give clues to reading the words.

You can play a fun - tell what each critter is doing with its dot. Make this a creative story telling idea. Give prizes for participating and for trying and for winning.

Use a stop watch to time the action.

Print and cut apart as cards.

The Creative Dot

Use this Q&A Game section to have fun and play togetheras a family or with friends.

Set aside a pot of change and reward right answers with money as happens with popular game shows on TV. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Jeopardy, and Wheel or Fortune. Learning can be fun! When it is, more learning takes place.

The list below is just a suggested list of questions that you can start with. Some are easy for the young reader and others are more challenging. Use a stop watch to time the answers

They can be printed and cut apart as cards.

1) How many times is Dot used in the book? .

2) List words that rhyme with dot that you find in the book and add to your list. See who in your family can develop the longest list.

3) When my children were little we lived on a high mountaintop about 100 miles from the ocean with a huge city, Los Angeles with all his traffic and freeways in between. The road down the mountain was very steep and curvy and the city traffic was unending. We developed games to distract us from the long trip. One was called Spot the Bug. This was back in the 80’s and there were lots of colorful VW bugs, beetles, vans, and even convertibles. Whoever spotted a bug or other VW first would get the designated points. Each type of VW carried with it a certain number of points as well as the color of the paint. So the scoring system could be a challenge within itself. What does that have to do with the Dot book? Try playing Spot the Dot with your family. Assign points for colors, sizes, and numbers spotted. You will be amazed how many dots you will see once you start looking for them.

4) Take pictures or videos of dots you see. Be creative, why not?

The Creative Dot

Answers:1) Dot rhyme 62

Dot in copyright page 3Dot on the covers 2So what is the answer? 67

2) See words that rhyme list in this supplement. 3) Keep a running ledger in the car and you will find a real competition will

develop. 4) Post your video on YouTube.com. If there is enough interest, GoodStorybooks

might had a competition for the most creative assortment of dots.

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