LIFESTYLE AND ENTERTAINMENT
It’s definitely full steam ahead for our newspaper inquiry!
As a class, we recently talked about the Entertainment section of a newspaper, and how it usually includes movie reviews, information about music events and live theatre, and reviews about the latest bestselling books!
Given that the children have been doing an Author Study on Mo Willems in the classroom, it made complete sense to have each of them do a Book Review on one story by Mo Willems!
We discussed the importance of having Book Reviewers in the newspaper world, as they help to shed light on literature that readers may find interesting or even uninteresting. The children learned that when they write book reviews for an audience, their opinions matter!!! Yes, they do!!!!
As Book Reviewers, the students know they have a responsibility to tell their readers how they feel about a book (was it good? was it terrible?), so that their readers are better informed to choose to check out the book (or not).
NOTE: Full credit for these Book Review Templates goes to Mrs. N’s Classroom. These free templates can be found on her page on Teachers Pay Teachers.
To see Mrs. N’s Book Review Templates on Teachers Pay Teachers, please click here!
Check out the kids’ book reviews…
Maybe you’ll be inclined to pick up a book or two from the public library after reading Division 11’s Book Reviews?
