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Character Body Book Report Set
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Character Body Book Report Set
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Character Body Book Report: Your students will love creating a large visual image of the main character of their book for this book report!
The writing templates and graphic organizers that I have designed fit inside on the character's shirt and outside on the character's vest.
This Body Book Report Set will provide you with all of the teaching resources that you need for your students to creatively write about the main character of their book. The only additional material required to complete this project is construction paper, although you may also want to provide yarn for the character's hair.
Traditionally, requiring students to write about the main character of their book is a task that most students find quite boring. By using these body shaped book report templates, your students will be enthusiastic about writing how their character changed or learned an important lesson during the main events of the book.
You will be amazed at some of the creative ideas that your students come up with as they are individualizing their character's body to represent facts that they read about their character in the book.
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.
The final draft worksheet templates that are provided fit inside the shirt area, outside on the vest, and the 10 adjective descriptions are glued on the outside of the character's body.
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.
These finished character book reports make a brilliant bulletin board display of your students' work. Everything that you need to complete these Character Body Book Reports is included in the set. All that you will need is scissors, glue, tape, coloring pencils, a piece of 12 inches x 18 inches construction paper for the main body section, and construction paper to make the character's head, hands, and feet.
There are 10 worksheet/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 reports.
Character Body Book Report Set What's Included?
This set includes assembly directions on how to prepare and assemble this project. There are 3 pages of directions that show how to assemble this project with graphical images. Below is a sample of these directions. I have only shown the first step and the last step of the directions in this picture sample. The directions in this set are split up into 8 steps of graphical images that demonstrate how to cut and fold the construction paper.
This set includes a book report grading rubric.
I believe that it is important for students to evaluate their own work, so my grading rubric contains both a student assessment and a teacher assessment component. When the students grade their work, they color in the faces. When the teacher grades the work, the teacher circles the small numbers in each box beside the faces. I often find that my students are harsher on themselves than I am, and that the grade that I give them is higher than they have scored themselves.
Below is an example of my Character Body Book Report grading rubric:
I believe that the writing process is important and that teachers should use process writing whenever possible.
For this reason, my students never begin their book reports by writing on their final draft templates, instead they write on first draft worksheets. Then, they edit and revise their work on their own, with a partner, or in individual writing conferences with me.
This set contains three worksheets for students to write their first drafts on (only two of them are shown below). On my first draft worksheets, I have designed the writing line spaces to match the spaces allotted on the final draft body templates.
This Character Body Book Report Set is designed so that each section fits onto the shirt and vest area of the character's body. The writing sections for this project include:
Outside Vest Pocket: Title, Author, Genre, Name, and Date
Inside Middle of Shirt: If I Met _________ (Describe why you would like to meet this character from your book. What activity would you like to do with this character if you met him or her? Try to think of something that this character would be interested in doing based on what you learned about him/her from the book.)
Inside Left Area of Shirt: At the Beginning of the Book (Describe what your character was like at the beginning of the book. What problem, or challenge, did this character have to solve?)
Inside Right Area of Shirt: At the End of the Book (Describe what your character was like at the end of the book. How did this character change after he/she solved his/her problem or challenge? What valuable lesson did your character learn at the end of the book?)
Adjectives: Students write 10 descriptive adjectives about their character and glue them on the outside of the character's body.
Due to spelling differences in English (words like color/colour and favorite/favourite), there are two sets of downloads for these worksheets, as well as the final draft templates and grading rubric. You can select the spelling that is used in the country that you are from.
This set contains three first draft worksheets, only two of them are shown below.
This set includes 3 pages of final draft templates that are cut out and glued on the inside and outside of the character's body. I have divided them into 4 pages for this picture so that they are easier to see.
Finally, I know that it takes teachers a lot of time to assemble their bulletin board displays. Many teachers spend their valuable time cutting out large display letters or making a banner on their own at home on their computer.
This time is valuable and better spent on developing your classroom curriculum and grading papers, so I have designed a matching 5 page display banner for your bulletin board. If you have access to a laminating machine, you can laminate your banner so that it is durable and you can use it year after year for bulletin board displays of these Character Body Book Report projects.
In addition to the main project that is described above, I have my students write a letter to the main character that they just designed their project for.
I have designed a matching set of rainbow letter stationary and a bulletin board banner for this writing activity.
Both of these are included in this Character Body Book Report Set. Below is an example of the letter writing stationary and the matching bulletin board banner.
With the book report projects that I have created, I have found that my students are excited and look forward to each new book report project that I assign to them.
You will be amazed at the creative ideas that your students come up with for this project. If the character that a student chooses is an animal, he or she can easily adapt this project into an animal body book report.
Below is an example from Lisa's classroom, she teaches Grade 4 in Connecticut. Her student's main character was a badger.
You will be able to design a colorful and dynamic bulletin board display using your students' finished character body book report projects.
The writing responses that are required of your students will make them think and write about how the main character in their story has changed or learned a valuable lesson during the events of the book. In addition, this book report set includes a letter writing activity and matching bulletin board banner.
This is one of the first book reports that I assigned my students. I have gone through many versions of this project while I tested and refined the direction steps and template pieces.
The first year that I tried this book report project with my students, I basically just gave out the directions for folding the poster paper into the shirt, vest, and arm shapes. I had body book reports turned into me that were in a variety of shapes and sizes, from 6 inches in height, all the way up to 6 feet tall! It was very hard to create a bulletin board display of these projects when they were such different sizes.
Although each student now comes up with a different colored and somewhat different shaped character, by following the detailed direction steps that I now provide, my students' projects have a similar shape and size to them.
I have tested sending this whole project home (the directions, first draft, and final drafts) as a week long homework assignment, and my students were able to complete all of these steps on their own at home.
This Character Body Book Report has been one of my students' favorite book report projects, and they have really enjoyed sharing their book report projects and discussing their main characters with their classmates when they have completed their projects. I hope that your students enjoy these body shaped book reports too!
Below is an example of a body book report done on the BFG by Roald Dahl.
In these character body book report projects, I encourage my students to think about what makes their character unique, and to use these ideas in designing their character. In this example, the BFG has large ears, is holding a snozzcumber in his hand, and by his feet is his
Dream Jar.
Below is an example from Lisa's 4th Grade classroom in Connecticut. This character must be cool, as she's wearing sunglasses!
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Character Body Book Report: Your students will love creating a large visual image of the main character of their book for this book report! 
