Better Book Reports Curriculum Map

Book reports allow the young readers to share their thoughts about the stories they have heard or have read themselves. As well, students need the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding of the materials.

Each section begins with a Teacher’s Notes page that will provide suggestions to help you to introduce the sections and to obtain the best results from your students. Students in the Junior Division have more developed reading skills and require meaningful activities that will promote successful and enjoyable reading experiences. These activities should address both oral and written aspects of performance.

This resource contains six sections: 

1. Vocabulary Development

2. Identifying Important Information

3. Character Analysis

4. Summarizing & Sequencing Events

5. Reasoning & Critical Thinking

6. Creativity & Design

The Introduction Includes:

• At A Glance - Skill List

• Teacher Assessment Rubric

• Student Self Assessment Rubric

• Teacher – Student Conference Form

• Introduction & Teacher Suggestions

• Overall Expectations

• Introduction

• Getting Started: organizing materials, using the activities

• Sharing student results

• Introducing Book Report Activities

  • Library Lingo

  • What is Genre?

  • Name That Genre

• Book Report Activities - List of Worksheets

• Student's Personal Reading Record Form

• Student's Book Report Activities Tracking

Book Report Activities

Vocabulary Development 

1. Word Power

2. Catching Your Interest

3. I Mean the Same As …

4. Similes and Metaphors

5. Ways to Tell a Story

6. Follow Your Sense

7. Making a Glossary

Identifying Important Information 

1. Do You Believe?

2. Hee! Hee! Hee!

3. Terrific Travels

4. Information Sharing

5. Once Upon a Time

6. In the Sport Light

7. Scavenger Hunt

Character Analysis 

1. Character Friends

2. Character Poem

3. Sharing a Biography

4. Fantasy World

5. Realistic Fiction

6. Historical Fiction

7. On Tonight’s Show

Summarizing & Sequencing Events 

1. Read Around

2. Shape Up!

3. Add It Up!

4. Slice of Life

5. One Step at a Time

6. In a Nutshell

7. FAN – tastic!

Reasoning & Critical Thinking 

1. Time Travel

2. Poetry

3. Agree or Disagree?

4. Sound Advice

5. Quiz Me!

6. Who’s Telling This Story?

7. Critic’s Choice

Creativity & Design 

1. Listen! Listen!

2. File It!

3. Hocus! Pocus!

4. Perform Live!

5. Book Mobile

6. Travel Adventures

7. Character Collage

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