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Main Character Vacation Suitcase Book Report Set
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Vacation Suitcase Book Report Set
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Main Character Vacation Suitcase Book Report: Do you want an exciting and challenging book report idea for your students that also involves research skills?
This Main Character Vacation Suitcase Reading Response Set will provide you with all of the teaching resources that you need for your students to respond to a book that they have read, as well as having to complete research about a particular country.
The unique graphic organizers and 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 uniquely shaped book 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).
These finished book reports make a brilliant bulletin board display of your students' work. Everything that you need to complete these Main Character Vacation Suitcase Book Reports is included in the set. All that you will need is scissors, glue, tape, and coloring pencils.
There are 16 worksheet/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.
Main Character Vacation Suitcase Book Report Set What's Included?
This set includes directions on how to prepare and assemble this project.
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.
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 four 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 templates.
This Main Character Vacation Suitcase Book Report Set contains the following written components:
Researching the country, flag, population, capital city, currency, languages, and price of an airline ticket
The main attractions that we plan to visit are...
I think that ____ would enjoy visiting ____ because...
Packing our suitcases
Our favorite places that we visited together
Shopping and Restaurants
Traveling with ____ was fun because...
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 suitcase. Inside one of the boxes, the students draw and color a picture of a place that they visited with the main character in the book.
Below are examples of these four templates:
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 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 templates of this project for you to use.
In this set there are black/white and color templates for the suitcase handle. On the handle, students write the title, author, and genre of their book.
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 your bulletin board display of these Main Character Vacation Suitcase 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 Main Character Vacation Suitcase Book Report Set includes 40 different international children carrying their country flags. These can be used as accent pieces on your suitcase bulletin board display. I hope that these flag accent pieces help save you time in preparing and decorating your suitcase book report bulletin board.
Besides using these international children accent pieces for this bulletin board, I am sure that there are other times in your curriculum that you may need displays of country flags.
Here is an example of a finished project done by one of my students.
You will be able to design a colorful and dynamic bulletin board display using your students' finished main character suitcase book report projects.
The graphic organizers and writing responses that are required of your students will make them think about the main character of their book in a different way.
Based on their main character's personality and interests, students have to choose a country to visit that the character would enjoy, think about what that character would pack in their suitcase, what that character would enjoy buying, and other creative responses. In addition, this book report set requires your students to do research about a country.
This Main Character Vacation Suitcase Book Report has been one of my students' favorite book report projects, and I hope that your students enjoy it too!
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Main Character Vacation Suitcase Book Report Set
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Main Character Vacation Suitcase Book Report: Do you want an exciting and challenging book report idea for your students that also involves research skills? 
