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Radio Book Report Project: 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 graphic organizers.
This radio reading response project will provide you with all of the teaching resources that you need for your students to pretend that they are radio disc jockeys while they write about the key elements of their books.
Traditionally, requiring students to write about the most important part of a book is a task that most students find quite boring.
By using these uniquely shaped radio graphic organizers, your students will be engaged in writing their news summary and singing along as they write lyrics to their own songs.
This uniquely shaped book report project contains 6 worksheet 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.
These finished book report projects will make a brilliant classroom bulletin board display of your students' work. Everything that you need to complete these Radio Book Report Projects is included in this set of teaching resources. All that you will need is scissors, glue, tape, and coloring pencils.
There are 16 worksheets and template pages in this set, as well as a 5 page color bulletin board display banner and a grading rubric. There are 6 DJ microphones and 6 CDs with slogans on them to add as accent pieces to your bulletin board display.
Radio Book Report Project: 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 Radio 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 report projects 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, two of them are shown below. On my first draft worksheets, I have designed the writing line spaces to match the spaces alloted on the final draft radio templates.
This Radio Book Report Set is designed so that the writing responses require the students to pretend that they are a radio disc jockey. The writing sections of this book report include:
1: Title, Author, Genre, Name, and Date
2: DJ's Book Recommendation: Pretend that you are the radio DJ. Write a short recommendation of why the people who are listening to your radio station should read this book.
3. DJ's Song List: Think about the characters and the plot of your book. Create 5 titles for songs that the DJ will play on the radio based on the characters and the plot of your book.
4. DJ's News Update: Think about the most exciting event that happened in this book. Pretend that you are the radio DJ, and write a news story about this event that you can read during the news section of your radio program.
5. Song Lyrics: Read the 5 song titles that you created. Choose your favorite song title and write lyrics for that song.
6. Speaker Illustrations: Draw an illustation on one speaker related to the news update, and on the second speaker draw an illustration related to the song lyrics.
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 6 templates that assemble into the shape of a radio. Inside the speaker circles, students draw and color pictures related to their news update and song lyrics.
This book report project is a flip book, and the speakers are stapled on top of the writing sections, so that they are lifted up to reveal the corresponding writing sections.
Below are examples of these 6 templates:
My students enjoy seeing my radio 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 radio templates of this project for you to use.
Finally, I know that it takes teachers a lot of valuable 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 display of these Radio Book Report Projects.
EXTRA GOODIES: For some of my book report projects, I am able to think of, and create, additional accent pieces to help you in decorating your bulletin board displays.
This Radio Book Report Project includes 6 microphones with speech bubbles. These bulletin board accent pieces measure 9 inches in width and 6 inches in height. These templates come in both color and black and white. The 6 microphone speech bubbles say:
Characters In The News
Newsworthy Characters
DJ's Song List
DJ's Book Review
Our Radio Book Reports
Listen to These Songs
EXTRA GOODIES: I have designed 6 radio CDs that measure 5 inches in width and 5 inches in height. These templates come in both color and black and white. The 6 compact discs say:
Super Songwriters
On the Radio
Radio Book Reports
On the Air
Top 10 Songlist
Radio News Update
I hope that these two EXTRA GOODIES that are included in this book report set help save you time in decorating your radio bulletin board display.
Below is a picture of my students with their radio book report projects. It is often a challenge to get students excited about completing writing assignments about a book that they have just finished reading. With this book report assignment, I have even had students volunteer to sing the songs that they wrote in front of their classmates!
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 able to design a colorful and dynamic bulletin board display using your students' finished radio book report projects.
These radio 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 character and the main events of their books in a challenging and engaging way. In addition, this book report set includes radio themed accent pieces to help you in decorating your bulletin board display.
This Radio Book Report Project has been one of my students' favorite book report projects and it has even inspired some of them to perform their songs for their classmates. I hope that your students enjoy completing this book report too!
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Radio Book Report Project
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On this page, I describe how I have used book report projects and sticker charts to motivate my students to read books on their own. You can read about how to engage your students in reading so that they will be excited to read books independently and enthusiastic to complete their fun book report projects! To go to this reading page, click on the underlined link in the paragraph above.
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Sincerely, Heidi McDonald
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Radio Book Report Project: 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 graphic organizers.
