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Book Reports
Dear Parents,
Each year third grade students are required to do three book reports throughout the year. The second, third, and fourth grading periods I will assign a particular type of report I want the children to do:
2nd quarter: Popcorn Bag Book Report
3rd quarter: Cereal Box Book Report
4th quarter: Biography Report (dress as your person with a prop)
Each report will consist of: reading an entire book that is appropriate for your child’s reading level, (in order to find a book on your child's reading level, read through a little of the book with them, and if they are really having trouble with the words pick another book until you come to one where they can read most if not all of the words on their own; please no picture books)(PLEASE CONTACT ME IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS), completing the report following the rubric guidelines and presenting to the class before the end of the grading period. Their grade will be entered at the end of each quarter. No excuses for not having a book report finished in nine weeks!
Please help your child pick a book at his or her reading level. Whether your child is reading at a second grade level or fourth grade level, there are many books to choose from. Their book may come from my room library, the school library or the public library, or from home.
These book reports and projects are meant to be fun, non-stressful experiences for families. I understand that to some degree your child may need your assistance with the project part, but for the most part I’d like this to be their responsibility. At the beginning of each grading period I will send home an explanation of the required book report, rubric and any materials I may be supplying. Please get with me if you have any questions! Let’s get excited to read and create some amazing reports!
Sincerely,
Miss Blackton
Popcorn Bag Book ReportStudent Materials: White lunch bag ( teacher supplied)
Crayons or colored pencils
Popcorn (teacher supplied)
Written report summary
Procedure: Each student will read any genre of a fiction book. (fiction, historical fiction, mystery, fairytale, poetry, comic, adventure…….) On the white paper lunch bag students will boldly write the title (underlined!), author and illustrator and create a new book cover design or illustrate your favorite scene from the book. On the other side of the lunch bag glue down the completed book report summary. Be sure to carefully and correctly fill out the report form.
On the day of presentations students will open their popcorn bag book reports and I will fill them with popcorn and enjoy our classmates’ presentations. Please send a drink with your child to have with the popcorn. Please contact me with any questions!
Popcorn Bag Rubric
Due Date:________________________
Front of Bag:
Title- (underlined & correctly capitalized) 10 pts.
Author/Illustrated- (correct capitalization) 10 pts.
Picture- (neatly colored book cover or scene) 10 pts.
Back of Bag:
Book report summary 40 pts.
Proper capitalization & punctuation 10 pts.
Spelling 10 pts
Presentation:
Volume/Speed 5 pts.
Fluency 5 pts.
Total:
Comments:
Cereal Box Book Report
A Non-fiction Book Report
This book report is made from a cereal box. You will read a non-fiction book and present your information and cereal box in front of the class.
After you have read your book you will take an empty cereal box and cut it down the middle to the bottom of the box. * Leave a header at the top for the title. (I will have an example in the classroom.) Please have an adult help you with the cutting. The entire outside of your box will need to be covered and designed to go along with your book. On the inside you will glue pictures that you have drawn or cut out that relate to your book’s topic. You will need to write “fact captions” for the pictures that you have chosen to share with the class.
Follow the attached rubric to ensure you get all possible points. Please contact me with any questions!
Cereal Box Rubric
Due Date:________
- The Cereal Box
- Cover the entire box &
design the front………………………………….10 pts
- Title on front (written correctly)… 5 pts.
- Author listed…………………………………………5 pts.
- At least 10 interesting “fact captions”
glued to inside flaps and back………20 pts.
- Pictures for each “fact caption”…….20 pts.
- Neatness:
mounting………………………………………..5 pts.
cutting…………………………………………….5 pts.
- Presentation
- Volume & speed……………………………………………5 pts.
- Fluency………………………………………………………….5 pts.
- At least 10 facts orally presented…….20 pts.
Total: pts.
Comments-
Biography Book ReportYour book report will be a biography on a person from the past or present. When you present your person you will dress like your person and have at least one prop to go with it. For Example: If you chose Ben Franklin you would dress like him and bring in a lightning rod or kite for your prop. You can make your prop if needed.
Your written report must be filled out and turned in when presenting. You will also do a timeline with important life events for your person. You can use your timeline to make your note cards. When your present your person to the class you will speak in first person and use your note cards.
If you follow the rubric you will do well and receive a high score. This grade will be added to the grade book at the end of the quarter. I have included the written report form, paper for the timeline, note cards, and a list of possible choices. You may have someone else in mind, just check with me. Please return the parent signature and chosen person form as soon as possible. Remember you have 9 weeks to put this together. If you or your parents have any questions come see me.
Name:____________________________ Date:_________Biography Written Report:
Title:_________________________________________________________
Author:______________________________________________________
Name of Person:____________________________________________________
Early childhood:_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Young adult:___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Adult:_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Biography Rubric
Due Date:________________
- Brought in parent signature/chosen
book slip…………………… 6pts.
- Written Report
- includes early childhood…………20 pts.
young adult……… 20 pts.
adult ……………… 20 pts.
- Three written paragraphs……....5 pts.
- Spelling…………………………… 3 pts.
- Capitals & Punctuation………….3 pts.
- Neatly written or typed………….3 pts.
III. Completed Life Timeline…20 pts.
Total: 100 pts.
- Presentation
- Fluency & Volume Control………..10 pts.
- Note cards to read from……………30 pts.
- Costume………………………………50 pts.
- Prop……………………………………10 pts.
Total: 100pts.
I have read the Biography Book Report assignment with my child __________________. He/she will be doing a biography on________________________________
Date:________ Parent Signature:_________________________
Biography Ideas:
Architects/LandscapersFrank Lloyd Wright
Frederick Law Olmsted
Artists/Magicans
Claude Monet
Leonardo DaVinci
Pablo Picasso
Vincent VanGogh
Ansel Adams
Grama Moses
Walt Disney
Harry Houdini
David Copperfield
Athlets
Michael Phelps
Wilma Rudolph
Lou Gehrig
Muhammad Ali
Michelle Kwan
Joe Namath
Apollo Anton Ohno
Michael Jordan
Lebron James
Authors
Charles Dickens
Theodor Gisel (Dr. Seuss)
Han Christian Anderson
Lewis Carroll
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Composers
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Johanna Sebastian Bach
Dancers
Anna Pavlova
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Fred Astaire
Explorers
Sylvia Earle
Christopher Columbus
Matthew Henson
Kit Carson
Daniel Boone
Meriwether Lewis &
William Clark
Amerigo Vespucci
Inventors
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
The Wright Brothers
Henry Ford
Louis Braille
Musicians
Bob Marley
Elvis Presley
Johnny Cash
Ray Charles
John Lennon
Royalty
Henry VIII
Queen Victoria
Prince Charles
Princess Diana
Scientist
Albert Einstein
Isaac Newton
George Washington Carver
Marie Curie
Galileo
Dr. Eugenie Clark
Presidents/Supreme Court Justices
Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jackson
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Ronald Reagan
Thurgood Marshall
Sandra Day O'connor
Patriots
Ben Franklin
Francis Scott Key
Betsy Ross
John Hancock
Thomas Paine
Paul Revere
Native Americans
Sequoyah
Crazy Horse
Tecumseh
Sacajawea
Pocahontas
Women Who Made A
Difference
Susan B. Anthony
Mother Theresa
Amelia Earhart
Harriet Tubman
Clara Barton
Annie Oakley
Florence Nightingale
Helen Keller
Anne Frank
Jane Goodall
Astronauts/Aviation
Buzz Aldrin
Neil Armstrong
Sally Ride
Alan Sheperd
Christa McAuliffe
Charles Lindberg
Orville Wright
Wilbur Wright
Amalia Earhart
Poets
Louisa May Alcott
Jane Austen
Emily Dickenson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert Frost
Civil Rights/Fairness
Martin Luther King Jr.
Rosa Parks
Ruby Bridges
Civil Rights/Fairness
Lucy Burns
Cesar Chavez
Delores Huerta
Actors/Actresses
Charlie Chaplin
Julie Andrews
Bill Cosby
Shirley Temple
Marilyn Monroe
Jim Carey
Johnny Depp
Dancers
Anna Pavlova
Miikhail Baryshnikov
Fred Astaire
