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easy book reports
By heather

I teach 6th grade reading, english, and social studies. I really wanted my students to learn better writing skills last year so I came up with my own book reports. Here is the layout:
Name
Date
Book report #

Bibliography

Summary
(no more than 2 paragraphs)
Critique (student's opinion and why)
I ask that these not be longer than 1 page. This makes it easy on them and also easier on me for grading. I set up a simple rubric to check by. I just grade for what I expect of them. They receive the rubric after I grade them and they have to take them home to be signed.
My students have to

read 4 accelerated reader books per nine weeks (school policy). They must write 3 book reports. I also require that my students do one book project per nine weeks for the fourth book that they read. They can choose which books to use for reports or their project. Projects can include story cubes, story boards, story pyramids, story wheels, grocery bag books, write a new ending for story, write a letter to author, write a letter to a character, interview a character or author, etc. At the end of the nine weeks, my students share their projects with the other students.

My classes are departmentalized so this makes the grading so much easier on me and it still covers all of the objectives that I need to cover.

Hope this is helpful and not confusing!!!