Empower student voice & choice with digital book reviews!

Are your older students disengaged readers?  Are they circulating or reading less books than other grades?  As a library media specialist, raising readers is important to us; we want to keep books in the hands of our students.  One of the best ways to do that is word of mouth; through digital book reviews! As students review books they’ve read, they also generate reading excitement in future readers through quick book reviews.  

The digital platform is your (or your students’) choice. However, before they click that record, they need to organize and plan their thinking. There’s nothing worse than stepping up to mic unprepared. Teaching students how to plan a recording session makes it enjoyable and has them coming back for more! 

Get ready to help your students create awesome digital book reviews and increase reading across the school! After downloading this pack, you will get:

• Standards Based Lesson: outlines the lesson step - by - step. Standards listed below. 
• Construct a book review inquiry activity: students will take the pieces of a book review and see if they can put them together in the correct order. Great partner activity!
• Digital Drag & Drop Activity to construct a book review for Google Slides.
• suggested digital platforms for your students to create digital book reviews
• Single Point Rubric in digital and print form. Single point rubrics are awesome for developing a growth mindset and have students do the heavy lifting of reflection.
• Book Review Planning sheets in digital and print form.
• Directions for using the included materials with Google Slides.
• A Choose Kindness poster to guide students as they provide feedback; comment on and/or like each other’s digital book reviews.

STANDARDS ADDRESSED IN THIS ACTIVITY:

AASL: 

• Using a variety of communication tools and resources.
• Interacting with content presented by others

ISTE: 

• Students select and use digital tools to plan and manage a design process that considers design constraints and calculated risks.
• Students choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication.
• Students create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations.
• Students communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.

CCSS: 

• Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
• Present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audien

Quick Byte: 

• This resource includes links to digital materials. Click that link and you will be asked to make a copy in your Google Drive™.

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