Award Book Reports

The next book report needs to be from an award winning book. If you

read a few minutes every night, the book should be finished in plenty of time.

Students have three choices for the type of report this time. They each get to choose the one project that most interests him/her. 1. Book jacket Cover 2. Book Float and/or 3. Scrapbook page.

Book jacket cover

Design a new, original book jacket cover for the book. Paper for this is available in our classroom.

Front cover: Illustrate the book setting and some of the happenings of the book on the front cover. Do NOT copy the original book cover.

Inside front and back flap: Write a summary of the book including characters, conflicts, complications, and resolution. This should take up most of both flaps.

You may add information about the author on the back inside flap if you have space.

Back Cover: Create “quotes” from book critics to praise the book. We can poll other students at our school for this. You can ask teachers of the school if they have read the book, etc.

Book Float

The students may design and decorate an upside down shoebox to correspond with the Award winning book they read. The students need to visualize this as a “float” in a parade.

1. Cover the entire shoebox with paper or paint. No advertisements or words should be showing from the original box.

2. The title should be written in correct form with theproper words capitalized and the whole  title underlined. The author’s name should be written after the title.

3. The Newbery medal or other award medal can be placed on the front of the ”float.” If there is not a medal, neatly indicate what award this book was given.

4. A neat and brief summary of the book should be on the other side of the “float.”

5. The student’s name should be on the back of the "float.”

6. Decorations should be used to build the scene on the shoebox. The scene needs to clearly indicate something specific about the book.

Scrapbook page

Two sample direction pages were sent home. Examples of past students’ projects can be found on previous year