Book trailer project

Want your students to familiarize themselves with Canva? Generate a product over a book they've read? This is the activity for you! Students will create a book trailer with Canva. What's Included: PDF - showing the steps to creating a book trailer with Canva. Overview of project (2 pages) - students will be given 10 criteria they will be graded on; criteria matches rubrics, so there is no confusion on what they will be assessed on! 3 Grading Rubrics - one with point values and score column…

Kids can learn how to make a book trailer! It's a fun way to incorporate reading with technology and script writing as a response to reading.

I have seen people post about #BookBentos a lot this year. I love following all of the libraries and classrooms posting.... ...on Twitter and Instagram using #bookbento. They are all super inspiring and fun to see and share. I also love following the #bookbento Instagram account, which has amazing examples and inspiration like this one. Today, my friend and 4th grade teacher, Kate Lamoureux, and I, kicked off #BookBentos at Van Meter with her students. We were so excited to not only do this…

Updated (18 June 2018) : The last piece of advice on this page is no longer valid: Amazon no longer helps writers to make book trailers. Ev...

Greetings! I'm Sarah and I blog over at Tales of Teaching with Tech. I was so super jazzed when I was asked to guest blog on iTeach Third. Okay.... I have to be truthful.... I literally was doing a happy dance on the inside! (But tried to keep it cool on the outside!) Last fall, I went to a Cue Rockstar training and my biggest takeaway was book trailers. The only problem was the presenters used iMovie in their classrooms and I have chromebooks. I was on a mission to find something that was…

Welcome to all of the SimpleK12 visitors and anyone else stopping by! This is just to let you know that you can find the info and links from the webinar here (actually this link can also be found at the top of the page, if you are actually on my blog and not in a reader). If you have ANY further questions please comment here. If I know the answer I'll gladly share. If I don't I'll see if I can figure it out. :]

This post has been a long time in the making- lots of hours formulating with my students has created a process we are proud of and highly invested. We are over AR tests and lame book reports. Are you? We were before we even started! Like many educators, I am not the biggest fans of Accelerated Reader (AR) testing for my students. I think the low-level questions can be fine to see if a student generally gets the book in an abcd fashion, but doesn’t do much beyond that, and the question often…

Motivate students to read books, while engaging them with creating their own book trailers with this fun reading activity. Grab a freebie to get started!