My students have had success with Focused Reading Book Reports. These are not your typical summary book reports. They each have a specific point for students to concentrate on as they think about the book.
Download these forms for free and try them out with some of your students.
FOCUSED BOOK REPORT #3 Minor Character Major Impact
FOCUSED BOOK REPORT #7 Surprise
FOCUSED BOOK REPORT #9 Rate This Book
FOCUSED BOOK REPORT #10 Three Easy Pieces
These forms and 14 more Focused Book Report forms, plus many other effective reading assessments can be found in my book Hi-Impact Reading Strategies.
These assessments have worked at all levels in my Spanish classes (1-AP), and most recently, in my Latin classes. I’ll show some student examples of these in a few days.
Oh, I didn’t mention that I volunteered to teach Latin at a school my daughter started? I’ve been learning Latin for 8 months and teaching it for 6 months!
I’ll blog about what I’m learning and re-learning about language teaching soon. Stay tuned…
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