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Book Report Templates: One of a Kind Book Report Sets
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Below are small graphical images of the variety of shapes that I have designed my book report templates in. Your students will find these uniquely shaped book report sets fun to complete, and each one contains writing activities related to the book report's shape, and the written responses required of students are different in each book report set.
Below is a list of the book report sets that are available on Unique Teaching Resources:
Please click on the links below to go to each book report set:
Your students will blast off with reading with this rocket book report set!
Traditionally, requiring students to write about the story elements of a book is a task that most students find quite boring. By using these uniquely shaped Rocket Templates, your students will take off with enthusiasm to complete these writing tasks that use rocket related vocabulary.
This Rocket Book Report Set contains five book report templates that assemble into a rocket. The finished rocket book report templates measures 12 inches in width and 27 inches in height.
There are 14 worksheets/template pages in this set, as well as a 5 page color bulletin board display banner. In this set there are 4 smaller rockets with reading slogans on them and 18 planet clip art templates to add as accent pieces to your bulletin board display.
Do you want an exciting and challenging book report idea for your students that will make them hungry to read their book?
Traditionally, requiring students to write about the story elements of a book (characters, setting, plot, etc) is a task that most students find quite boring. By using this uniquely shaped Cheeseburger Book Report, your students will find this task delicious!
This Cheeseburger Book Report Set contains four book report templates that assemble into a cheeseburger. The finished cheeseburger project measures 9 inches in width and 21 inches in height.
There are 15 worksheets/template pages in this set, as well as a 5 page color bulletin board display banner and 10 smaller cheeseburgers with reading slogans on them to add as accent pieces to your bulletin board display.
Do you want a book report idea for your students that also involves research skills? The unique written responses that are required of students for this project will make them have to think about their characters in a whole new way! They will have to select a country that they think that the main character would enjoy visiting, select what the main character would pack in their suitcase, why it was fun to travel with the main character, and many other creative responses.
This Main Character Vacation Suitcase Report Set contains five worksheet templates that assemble into a suitcase. The finished suitcase project measures 11 inches in width and 16 inches in height (including the handle, the height of the project is 23 inches).
There are 16 worksheets/template pages in this set, as well as a 5 page color bulletin board display banner. In addition, this set includes 40 bulletin board accent pieces of international children carrying their country flags.
Are you looking for a book report idea that involves your students in designing board games about their books?
The unique written responses that are required of students for this project will make them have to think about their characters and settings in a whole new way! When these game board book report projects are complete, students can have the opportunity to have fun playing each others' games before you display them on your bulletin board.
This Game Board Book Report Set contains four worksheet templates that assemble into a game board. The finished game board project measures 15 inches in width and 12 inches in height.
There are 20 worksheets/template pages in this set, as well as a 5 page color bulletin board display banner.
Your students will have a blast planning a birthday party for the main characters in the books that they read!
Based on what your students have learned about their main characters, they have to choose a location, the guests, food, gifts, and the games that they will play at the birthday party. By using this uniquely shaped Birthday Cake Book Report, your students will find these unusual writing responses delicious!
When my students have finished their projects, I bring in a large birthday cake for the whole class, and we all sing Happy Birthday to our main characters.
This Birthday Cake Book Report Set contains five worksheet templates that assemble into a birthday cake. The finished birthday cake project measures 9 inches in width and 17 inches in height.
There are 15 worksheets/template pages in this set, as well as a 5 page color bulletin board display banner. There are 8 birthday balloons and a Happy Birthday Cake for you to add as accent pieces to your bulletin board display.
Your students will love creating a large visual image of the main character of their book for this book report project! The writing templates that I have designed fit inside on the character's shirt and outside on the character's vest.
This Character Body Book Report Set contains directions on how to fold a piece of construction paper into a body shape that has a vest that opens up to show the shirt, where students do their writing. It is impossible to tell you the measurements of this book report because each student designs their own head, hands, legs, and feet for their characters. Without the body parts, the main part of this project measures 18 inches in width and 12 inches in height, and students add their head, hand, legs, and feet to this main body piece.
There are 10 worksheets/template pages in this set, as well as a 5 page color bulletin board display banner. In addition, I have designed matching letter writing stationary and a matching bulletin board banner so that your students can write a letter to their main character when they finish their character body book report.
Your students will enjoy pretending that they are radio disc jockeys with this book report project. As a DJ, students have to write a radio news update and song lyrics on their radio shaped templates.
This Radio Book Report Set contains 6 book report templates that assemble into a radio flip book. Students draw pictures on the radio's speakers, and these speakers flip open to reveal the two main writing sections of this book report. The finished radio project measures 21 inches in width and 8 inches in height.
There are 15 worksheets/template pages in this set, as well as a 5 page color bulletin board display banner. In this set there are 6 DJ microphones and 6 CDs with slogans on them to add as accent pieces to your bulletin board display.
Challenge your students to climb this mountain story map graphic organizer! Your students will enjoy climbing their mountain by writing and drawing about the exposition and rising action, reaching the summit by writing and drawing about the climax of their story, and descending the mountain by writing and drawing about the falling action and resolution.
Besides using these book report templates for individual student book reports, they are ideal for a teacher to use as a lesson activity for a book that the whole class has read together. These templates would also work well to use as a collaborative group project for students to work on together after they have finished reading a class novel.
This book report set contains 5 worksheet templates that assemble into a mountain shaped banner.
Students draw pictures along the mountain's slope to correspond with the following writing sections: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. The finished mountain story map project measures 32 inches in width and 10 inches in height.
There are 15 worksheets/template pages in this set, as well as a matching 5 page color bulletin board display banner and a grading rubric. There are 5 mountain display posters (one page each) with the definitions of exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution written on them to use as accent pieces for your bulletin board display.
Do you want to encourage your students to dive into reading great books? Do you want to create a vibrant ocean themed bulletin board display that promotes reading that was created by your own students? On this page you will find 12 varieties of fish book report templates so that you can assign different fish templates to your students for this book report activity.
By using a large variety of these different fish templates, you will be able to create a Dive Into Reading bulletin board display that contains an abundance of different types of sea life on it that will capture everyone's attention!
These 12 uniquely shaped fish Dive Into Reading Book Reports each contain a first draft writing worksheet, grading rubric, black and white fish templates, color fish templates, and a matching bulletin board banner. These finished fish book reports make a colorful ocean bulletin board display of your students' work that will promote reading in your classroom. There are two sets of Dive Into Reading Book Reports available on this page, and each set contain 6 different fish templates in it.
Do you want a fun and colorful book report idea for your students that will make them want to hop on board the reading bus? These bus shaped book reports, along with the free reading road signs that are included in this set, will help you to create a dynamic bulletin board display in your classroom.
This School Bus Book Report Set contains 5 book report templates that assemble into a school bus. Students draw pictures in the bus windows, and bus door opens up to reveal a character inside it. The finished school bus book report templates measures 28 inches in width and 8.5 inches in height.
There are 16 worksheets/template pages in this set, as well as a 5 page color bulletin board display banner. There are 12 reading road signs to use as accent pieces for your bulletin board display, as well as a background of a road template for you to use.
Almost every child enjoys working on a computer. What better way would there be to get your students enthusiastic about completing a book report project than to have them do a book report on computer templates that contain computer writing themes?
Traditionally, requiring students to write a summary, describe the climax, or write a letter to the main character in a book is a task that most students find quite boring.
By using this uniquely shaped computer book report, your students will eagerly want to fill up their computer's hard drive with these computer related writing responses.
This Computer Book Report Set contains 4 worksheet templates that assemble into a computer. Students draw a picture in the computer screen. The finished computer book report templates measures 16 inches in width and 12 inches in height.
There are 12 worksheets/template pages in this set, as well as a 5 page color bulletin board display banner. There are 7 pages of computer related accent pieces for you to use to help you decorate your bulletin board display.
Butterflies are one of the most colorful creatures that can be found, and this book report focuses on colorful writing. Students have to find examples of the author using colorful verbs and adjectives in their book. Then, they have to write a colorful description of the main character and explain why the plot of this book is colorful and interesting.
This Butterfly Reading Response Set will provide you with all of the teaching resources that you need for your students to review finding and using descriptive verbs and adjectives, and then using colorful verbs and adjectives in their own writing to describe the main character and plot of their book.
By using this butterfly book report that emphasizes colorful writing, your students will want to spread their wings and fly into these grammar and writing activities.
This Butterfly Book Report Set contains five worksheet templates that assemble into a butterfly. The finished butterfly project measures 14 inches in width and 14 inches in height.
There are 17 worksheets/template pages in this set, as well as a 5 page color bulletin board display banner. There are 13 pages of flower accent pieces that match the flowers in the bulletin board banner, for you to use to help you decorate your bulletin board display.
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I hope that you have read my Book Report Page to give you an overview on my philosophy of using book report projects as a way to engage my students in reading a variety of books and responding to them using uniquely shaped book report templates.
On this page, I have explained how I use these unique book report templates to have students respond to literature in a way that they find fun, and that keeps them engaged and on task. If you have not viewed this page, it is available by clicking on this link: Go Directly to Book Report Page
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Book Report Templates and Sets: Please click on the links below to go to each book report set:
Below are small graphical images of the variety of shapes that I have designed my book report templates in. Your students will find these uniquely shaped book report sets fun to complete, and each one contains writing activities related to the book report's shape, and the written responses required of students are different in each book report set.
