Lesson · Grade 2 · English Language Arts
Parts of a Book: Title, Author, Illustrator, Chapters and Contents
- Grade 2
- English Language Arts
- 1 min 9 s
- British Columbia
- BC2-EN-05
A made-up chapter book, "The Red Boat", is shown closed, and its title, author and illustrator are named one at a time with coloured labels, a pencil and a paintbrush. The book then opens to its table of contents and the first page of chapter 1, the three chapters and their page numbers are counted one by one, and the viewer sees that chapter 1 starts on page 3 before a recap of all five parts.
Concept: Parts of a book
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In one sentence
The question this lesson answers
What are the parts of a book? Let's name them one at a time.
The title is the name of the book. This book is called The Red Boat.
Transcript
What the lesson says
What are the parts of a book? Let's name them one at a time.
The title is the name of the book. This book is called The Red Boat.
The author is the person who writes the words. This book's author is Ana Lee.
The illustrator is the person who makes the pictures. This book's illustrator is Tom Wu.
Now let's open the book and look inside.
Many books are split into parts called chapters. Chapter one is called Set Sail.
This page is the table of contents. It lists the chapters in order.
This book has three chapters in all. One, Set Sail. Two, The Storm. Three, Home.
Three, nine and fifteen are page numbers. They show where each chapter starts.
Chapter one starts on page three. Page three is right here, beside the contents.
Title, author, illustrator, chapters and the table of contents!
Curriculum
Where this fits
- British Columbia, Grade 2
English Language Arts, Story/text: vocabulary associated with textsBC2-EN-05
The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.
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