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Game Board Book Report Set
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Game Board Book Report Set
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Game Board Book Report: Do you want an exciting and challenging book report idea for your students that also involves them designing a game about their book?
This Game Board Reading Response Set will provide you with all of the teaching resources that you need for your students to create property names and trivia cards for a game based on their book. This game will involve your students in creating 22 property names and 15 question and answer trivia cards. I have designed it similar to the popular board game Monopoly.
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 unique 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 uniquely shaped 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.
These finished book reports make a brilliant bulletin board display of your students' work. Everything that you need to complete these Game Board Book Reports is included in the set. All that you will need is scissors, glue, tape, and coloring pencils.
There are 20 worksheet/template pages in this set, as well as a 5 page color bulletin board display banner.
Game Board Book Report Set: What's Included?
This set includes assembly directions on how to prepare and assemble this project. Below is a sample of these direction pages.
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 Game Board 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.
For this Board Game Book Report students have to:
Choose 22 property titles based on the settings and characters in their book
Write 15 questions
Write 15 answers to their questions
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 includes 4 templates that assemble into the shape of a game board. Inside the two stars, students draw and color pictures of their favorite parts of the book.
Below are examples of these four templates:
This set includes 15 Trivia Cards. Students write their questions on the front of the cards and their answers on the back of the cards.
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 game board 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 game board templates of this project for you to use. Since this project is very time consuming to complete a teacher example of, I have included a completed version of my example using the book Matilda by Roald Dahl.
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 Game Board Book Reports.
You will be able to design a colorful and dynamic bulletin board display using your students' finished game board book report projects.
These game board 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. Your students will enjoy thinking up unique property titles for their games, as well as writing challenging questions about their book.
I had an idea for students to write questions and answers about their books. This idea was a bit boring to me, so I thought of this unique book report idea to provide the opportunity for students to write questions and answers about their book.
My students have enjoyed playing each others' games when they have finished these book report projects.
We keep these finished game boards in the classroom all year long. When students finish reading a book that another student has designed a game for, they can play that game. This is a great activity for students to do if they finish their work early, and it doesn't involve you creating a game for each novel. I hope that your students enjoy creating and playing these games too!
Click on the ADD TO CART button below to purchase this downloadable teacher resource:
Game Board Book Report Set
$4.99
Above is an example of a student's finished book report on The Bridge to Teribithia by Katherine Paterson. (Please note that I have made a few updates and improvements in these templates since I last had my students complete this book report.)
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Game Board Book Report: Do you want an exciting and challenging book report idea for your students that also involves them designing a game about their book? 
