📚 Book Reports!

Looking for some simple solutions for book reports? Gotcha covered.

I spent a lot of time through the years thinking about how to get my students to read more. As I look back, it seems like my first class read all the time, but as modern life has gotten busier, kids just don’t read as much.

So, getting more reading going requires the right balance of inspiration and accountability.

For the accountability side, book reports are great. I think they’re a good “first report” for second or third-graders, and when kids hear about their classmates’ books, they are encouraged to read more.

I set up book reports in third and fourth grade in the same way that I’ve set up other reports in the grades. For a series of weeks, students get a weekly homework assignment with specific questions, and at the end those answers are collected into a final report. I remember spending a week on each—character, setting, and plot.

We happened to be online during third and fourth grade, so I have lots of photos of that work. Here are some examples.

I’m happy to share my book report assignments. The links below are to my Google Drive. Just make a copy to your own Google Drive or download to your device.