Foldable Books

Dinah Zike invented hundreds of educational manipulatives (foldable books) that are used to help students remember concepts.  In the downloadable examples here, we use the foldable book to scaffold student description and inferences about a text.

Portrait of Pocahontas, from painting by Wm. Sheppard.

Read the Bibliographic Information. When was this image first created? Who is this person?

Created/Published: [between 1900 and 1920] Photograph of a painting in the United States Capitol, copied from original William Sheppard, dated 1616, at Barton rectory, Norfolk, England. Detroit Publishing Co. no. M 18753. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.v

• Pocahontas Foldable Book

• Pocahontas Foldable Book with Support

See how students would open a foldable book and how an image or text can be cropped to encourage student thinking.

Make a wallet-sized booklet with 6 pages out of a simple piece of printer paper.

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Document Based Question Activity Foldables

These foldables support a Document Based Question Activity from the New Visions for Public Schools US History Curriculum.
This activity is in Unit 9: The Cold War.

• US Defense Budget

• Hunting Communists

• Sputnik

• Bomb Shelter

These books were made by Marvin Antebi-Gruszka, a science and health teacher in New York City. Marvin was kind enough to make a template as well as these examples.

Zoom In Foldable Template (WORD)

Zoom-In Foldable (What Is Earth Science-)        (1)relative age foldable rubric

ES Unit 0 – Brain Plasticity FOLDABLE

Rhonda used these foldable books to support adult English Language Learners in a conversation class. The foldables are designed for a jigsaw discussion (like books meet together first then in groups of three with different books, participants answer the question, “What is a scam?”

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scam2

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