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Cheeseburger Book Report Set
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Cheeseburger Book Report Set
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Cheeseburger Book Report: Do you want an exciting and challenging book report idea for your students that will make them hungry to read their books?
These cheeseburger shaped graphic organizers will provide you with all of the teaching resources that you need for your students to write about the key elements of their book.
Many teachers have used sandwich book reports, where all the layers of the sandwich are stapled together, and you can only see the top layer at first glance. I believe that these cheeseburger templates are a unique version of this idea because all of the layers of the cheeseburger are visible. This means that all of the students' writing is easily seen on a bulletin board display of these finished projects.
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 uniquely shaped book report set contains four worksheet templates that assemble into a cheeseburger. The finished cheeseburger project measures 9 inches in width and 21 inches in height.
These finished book reports make a brilliant bulletin board display of your students' work.
Everything that you need to complete these Cheeseburger Book Reports is included in the set. All that you will need is scissors, glue, tape, and coloring pencils.
There are 11 worksheet/template pages in this set, as well as a 5 page color bulletin board display banner.
There are two cheeseburgers with title slogans that you can use as a centerpiece for your bulletin board display.
There are also 8 cheeseburgers posters with reading slogans on them to add as accent pieces for your bulletin board display.
Cheeseburger Book Report Set What's Included?
This set includes assembly directions on how to prepare and assemble this project. Below is a sample of this directions page.
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 Cheeseburger 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 Cheeseburger Book Report Set is designed so that each layer of the cheeseburger, is a layer of information about the book. The layers of this book report include:
Top Bun: Title, Author, and Genre
Onion Layer: Main Characters
Lettuce Layer: Setting
Tomato Layer: Plot
Cheese Layer: Conclusion
Meat Layer: My Favorite Part
Bottom Bun: Drawing of Favorite Part of the Book, Name, and Date
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. You can select the spelling that is used in the country that you are from.
This set contains two worksheets for students to write their first drafts on. On my first draft worksheets, I have designed the writing line spaces to match the spaces allotted on the final draft cheeseburger templates.
First Draft Worksheet #1: Students write the title, author, and genre of the book. This information is written in the top bun of the cheeseburger.
Students write about the setting of the book and this is written in the onion template.
Next, students write about the main character and this is written in the lettuce template.
First Draft Worksheet #2: Students write about the plot of the book and this is written in the tomato template.
Next, students write about the conclusion of the book and this is written in the cheese template.
Finally, students write about their favorite part of the book and this is written in the meat template.
This set includes 4 templates that assemble into the shape of a cheeseburger. Inside the circle in the bottom bun, students draw and color a picture of their favorite part of the book.
Below are the top bun and onion templates. On the bun template, students write the title, author, and genre of their books.
On the onion template, students write the setting of their books.
Below are the lettuce and tomato templates. On the lettuce template, students write the main character.
On the tomato template, students write the plot.
Below is the cheese template. On the cheese template, students write the conclusion of the book.
Below are the meat and bottom bun templates. On the meat template, students write their favorite part of the book.
On the bottom bun template, students draw a picture and write their name and date.
When I am first introducing my students to a new project, I believe that it is important for them to have a visual picture of what their final draft should look like. I always assemble the project myself beforehand and complete it.
My students enjoy seeing my cheeseburger project first (especially because I am horrible at drawing!). They also enjoy hearing about the book that I chose to do my book report on, and this gives me a great chance to promote a book that I would like to encourage my students to read.
To save you time in coloring your example that you show your students, I have included color cheeseburger templates of this project for you to use.
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 your bulletin board display of these Cheeseburger Book Reports.
EXTRA GOODIES: For some of my book report sets, I am able to think of, and create, additional accent pieces to help you in decorating your bulletin board displays.
This Cheeseburger Book Report Set includes a cheeseburger that is the same size as the students' templates that says, "WE ARE CHEFS! Read Our Delicious Cheeseburger Book Reports!"
This set includes a second cheeseburger that says, "Reading Books Feeds Your Brain With New Knowledge!"
EXTRA GOODIES: I have designed 8 (one page) cheeseburger posters that contain slogans written on them that promote reading.
The 8 cheeseburger reading posters say:
Cheeseburger Book Reports
Books Are Delicious!
Devour a Book Today!
Reading is Yummy!
Snack on a Book Today!
We Are Hungry to Read Books!
Follow a Diet of Reading Everyday!
Reading is Food For Your Brain!
I hope that these three EXTRA GOODIES that are included in this book report set help save you time in decorating your cheeseburger bulletin board display.
Above is a picture of my students in front of their cheeseburger book reports. It is often hard to get students excited about completing writing assignments about a book that they have just finished reading, but you can see that my students are enthusiastic about this project!
Students with their finished Cheeseburger Book Report projects.
You will be able to design a colorful and dynamic bulletin board display using your students' finished cheeseburger book report projects.
These cheeseburger graphic organizers are a unique and fun way to get your students excited about completing a writing assignment about the books that they have read.
The writing responses that are required of your students will make them think and write about the main elements of their books in a challenging and engaging way. In addition, this book report set includes cheeseburger themed accent pieces to help you in decorating your bulletin board display.
This is one of the first book reports that I designed for my students. I had an idea to create a sandwich book report, but I wanted all of the layers to be visible, and that is how I came up with the idea for these templates.
These Cheeseburger Book Reports have been one of my students' favorite book report projects, and they have thought that that this reading assignment was yummy! I hope that your students enjoy it too!
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Cheeseburger Book Report Set
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Cheeseburger Book Report: Do you want an exciting and challenging book report idea for your students that will make them hungry to read their books? 
