Bookr - create a book from pictures

My cooperating teacher has suggested that I plan some activities that revolve around holidays and customs for my English language learners. The next major holiday is Thanksgiving so I used Bookr to make a short virtual book about Thanksgiving.

This book would serve as an introduction to the holiday and also a way to preview the key vocabulary, such as gratitude, thankful, cornucopia, Pilgrim, Native American, and all the food relating to the holiday meal. I would use this book in whole class instruction first, going over the new words, and then let students explore the book either individually or in small groups/partners.

Some of my students have just arrived to the U.S. so this would be their first experience with Thanksgiving, others have been living here for four or more years. This book would be a good way to capitalize on the knowledge that students already know about the holiday by letting them explain and describe how they celebrate the holiday. After Thanksgiving, I could have my students make a book, using Bookr, that narrates how they celebrated that holiday.