Hi Everyone, I'm very happy to be here. My name is Kevin and I'm a high school English teacher here in Japan. I used to blog a lot and sometimes write short stories for English language learners. I also am interested in basic reading research. So I was thinking about combining all of this together to try and put together a sample chapter of a book which contains: 1) a very short story of 500-1000 words with ~90% of the vocabulary consisting of the most frequent words of English 2) two to three pages of theory about how reading skills are developed and how reading the short story can help develop those skills 3) a series of activities to be used in lessons, or by a parent with their child, or by a group of friends which is also based on the theory in part 2. The completed chapter will, I hope, be about 8 to 10 pages and will serve as the template for the rest of the book. I'm also really excited to spend time with other teachers who are interested in material development and...
Remember that you'll need your cover as a separate file, as a jpeg for ebooks and a .pdf for paperbacks--but we'll just start with the ebook. I'm not sure about the size... did you check the templates on Canva? Is that where you made this? If you used a different program, check the website listed on our ppt slides that gives ebook cover sizes.
ReplyDeleteI like the image, but I'd love to see your title larger... like, a LOT larger. Take up at least the whole line, but consider using two or three lines, like
Read Faster
and
Comprehend More
Make your name larger, too--no need to be shy! You can fill most of the bottom line (and remove "by"). Italics are not standard for book covers, so try making that just plain roman.
I like the way the cover image feeds into the first spiderweb metaphor and image in the first chapter.
Dorothy Zemach Hello Dorothy, I made those first two covers as word docs and didn't check the sizes, I also used images that were copyrighted and not available for free commercial use. Therefore, I made and uploaded to the Google community another 4th cover using Canva and saved as both a jpeg and a pdf. I included the suggested changes in this last cover design
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I also wanted to make sure that the text of my first chapter was correctly laid out before I tried to upload to an epub converter.
Thank you for your time!