Your 2nd graders will love these 17 fantastic chapter book series to keep them hooked on reading. As 2nd graders gain confidence and skills with reading; every book read helps improve fluency and comprehension. I am in sixth grade. I need a book report book for my language arts class. I don't know what book to read. I need it to be at least 150 pages or more. Sandwich Book Report. SOURCE: 123Homeschool4Me. You’ll notice a lot of our creative book report ideas revolve around food. In this project, each layer of this book report sandwich covers a different element of the book—characters, setting, conflict, etc. A fun adaptation to this project is the book report cheeseburger. These book report forms are suitable for both beginning readers and older children. The first is simply a form they can fill out that becomes their book report. The second set is an outline primer plus a page for them to handwrite their report (if you don’t already make them use a word processor!). Your final Book Report text should be at least 5 paragraphs. Along with detail paragraphs covering characters, settings and plot, your introductory paragraph should include the theme and your concluding paragraph should include your opinion of the book and your persuasive argument for or against the book's study in 4th grade.
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Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Students respond to a book they have read by thinking symbolically to create a business card for one of the characters.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Students make bookmarks on computers and share their ideas with other readers at their school, while practicing summarizing, recognizing symbols, and writing reviewsall for an authentic audience.
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Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
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Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
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Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
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Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
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Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
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Grades 5 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
In this alternative book report, students identify the elements of fiction in books they have read by creating glogs, interactive multimedia posters, and then share their glogs.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
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Grades 6 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
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Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
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Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Students identify the elements of fiction in a book they have read and share summaries of them by writing and illustrating their own mini-book.