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Type a picture book. Get a theme week for it.

We look the book up online first, then plan a week of circle-time activities around what's really in it: a sort, counting, a letter and its sound, a daily-living routine and a craft, each at three levels, plus smartboard slides, a data page and a family letter. For preschool through 2nd grade and special ed.

Free to build and preview. Your first packet is free. After that it's $4 a packet, or included in All-Access (it counts as one download).

Not at your computer? Email yourself a link

You can build right here on your phone. Or we email you one link that opens this page on your computer with the book already filled in. The draft is kept for 14 days, then deleted. One email, no list.

The title you type is sent to an AI service that searches the web for the book. If it can't find the book, we tell you and build nothing: we never guess. Privacy

Questions

How does it know what's in the book?

Before planning anything, it searches the web for the book (publisher, library and review pages) and reads what it finds. The week is planned from those notes, and the sources are listed with your preview so you can check them. If it can't find the book, it says so and builds nothing.

Does it copy the book?

No. The packet never quotes or retells the book or uses its characters or illustrations. It builds activities around the book's theme and the things in it, with an original chant, and names the book as your read-aloud.

What's in the packet?

A Start Here plan for the week, a book page, smartboard slides, picture vocabulary cards, a sort, counting, letter and beginning-sound pages and letter writing (each at three levels), a first/next/then/last routine, a craft, tracing and cutting practice, core word pages, a data page, a family letter, and ink-saver versions of every student page. Every cut page has five or more big pieces with straight cuts.

Is it the same as your theme weeks in the shop?

It uses the same page templates and the same checks. The shop units have a hand-drawn craft made for their book; a built packet has a picture crown made from the week's pictures.

What format is it?

A printable PDF, in color with ink-saver pages. It is not a Google Slides or PowerPoint file; the smartboard slides are landscape PDF pages you show full screen.

Do book titles typed here end up in your shop?

Sometimes. A few of the theme weeks we build here go on to become theme weeks we add to our TPT and brightpathsped.com shop, the same way our other theme weeks are made: with a real drawn craft, our own cover art, and the same quality checks. No personal information is involved — only the book title itself, and only the theme it suggests, never anything you typed about a specific student.