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Motivating students to become wild readers is always one of my top priorities each school year. From ridiculously engaging read-aloud voices to weekly themed shelves, I am willing to pull out all the stops because growing students into readers matters.
Motivating students to become wild readers is always one of my top priorities each school year. From ridiculously engaging read-aloud voices to weekly themed shelves, I am willing to pull out all the stops because growing students into readers matters. One of the easiest ways to achieve student buy-in is peer pressure! Getting students to suggest books to other students immediately validates the recommendation.
This resource includes…
*3 book recommendation templates
*Book Recommendation Checklist (anchor chart)
*Book Recommendation Checklist (for students)
If you have any questions or requests, feel free to email me at [email protected].
Catherine
The Brown-Bag Teacher
***For other teaching and learning resources, check out my Primary Math Centers, Word Work Centers and Visual Directions and Primary Writing Prompts and Papers.
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Sharon M. –
Great resource! Thank you for the freebie!
Lindsay Robertson –
This resource is exactly what I needed!
Anna E. –
My students loved using this resource! They are not quite ready to do it independently, but they still enjoyed the activity
Amy W. –
It was so fun to see how my students enjoyed sharing their book reviews.
Deborah K. –
After our recent book fair where they highlighted a book a day on the morning “news”, my students were interested in sharing their opinions about what books they liked or didn’t like. This was a perfect way for me to be able to jump onto a present interest of theirs and give them a different opportunity to practice their writing.
From My Mixed Up Files –
My students love to use these to recommend books to others! It is good for me to see why students like certain books- it helps inform my book purchases and library checkouts.
Thank you!
Michelle T. –
My students loved writing reviews to share in the library. I ended up printing off and laminating a set so I could erase and reuse them.
Courtney Jensen Classroom –
I use these each year during literacy week at my school. The kids enjoy writing recommendations for their favorite books. I add a copy of the cover of the book to display in the hallway.
Rebecca T. –
I’m a K-5 Librarian and my students are LOVING these!
Angela G. –
This is helpful for book talks. I’ve been putting it in our homework and on Friday, students give a book talk using this to help in their presentation.
Amy L. –
Thank you
Presley W. –
I found these speech bubble a great way to encourage students to pick up books and read.
Jennifer C. –
Awesome
Heather D. –
Is it too dramatic to say this resource changed my life? Every year, I had students who spent their book choosing time just staring at the hundreds of perfectly organized and color coded books on the shelf just to say they couldn’t find anything to read (insert silent screaming here). This resource changed that forever! Everyone loved choosing a book that their friends recommended. My students loved, loved, loved writing reviews for the books they read. In fact, some of their best writing came from their book reviews. I put aside a special basket in our class library with plastic folders in it. When they had a book they wanted to review, they wrote the review and put it in the folder with the book and placed it in the special basket. We even altered one of daily circle times for book reviews. Thank you for such an engaging resource!
Aneesah A. –
I have used this resource year after year with success. My students appreciate the rubric- it’s easy to use for them to use for reflection. The writing templates are also student-friendly. My students are remote this year so I won’t be able to use this in the same way, but I’ll give my students copies. One of my favorite writing resources.
Michael M. –
Great inspiration for my own projects!