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Subjects

• Arts & Humanities
  --Language Arts
  --Literature
• Educational Technology

Grade

• PreK
• K-2
• 3-5
• 6-8
  

Brief Description

A camera is all you need to create this fun bulletin board for Book Week (or anytime).

Objectives

Students think critically about a favorite book or a recent read.

Keywords

book report, reading, SSR, language arts, reading, bulletin board, Book Week

Materials Needed

• camera of any kind (digital preferred)
• construction paper
• markers

Lesson Plan

For this lesson, students can choose a favorite book or a book they recently finished reading. Use a camera to take a close-up picture of the student holding up the book (so the title is readable in the photograph).

Using Technology. If you take pictures with a digital camera, it will be easy to enlarge the photos for printing. Students might do the enlarging and printing of their own photos.

Cut from white construction paper a large "talk bubble" like those seen in comic books and comic strips. (See talk bubble samples 1, talk bubble samples 2 for enlarging.) Have students use markers to write their thoughts about the book inside the talk bubble. Or, instead of leaving this assignment wide open, you might ask all students to respond to a specific question such as