5th Grade Book Trailers

  

Our fifth graders had a 20 book reading challenge this year. At the end of the year-- students picked their favorite book to create a book trailer for.

Students previewed book trailers and came up with a criteria of what makes a good book trailer. In class, students mapped out their story and wrote a script for their book trailer. We then used our scripts to create a story board for our book trailer.

In library, I taught students about why citing images is important and then taught students how to find images and cite our images citations.

Students then learned how to create iMovies and created a book trailer. Check out our work! 

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Book Trailers-- iMovie

    

Our fifth graders had a 20 book reading challenge this year. At the end of the year-- students picked their favorite book to create a book trailer for.

Students previewed book trailers and came up with a criteria of what makes a good book trailer. In class, students mapped out their story and wrote a script for their book trailer. We then used our scripts to create a story board for our book trailer.

In library, I taught students about why citing images is important and then taught students how to find images using the creative commons and learned how to cite our images citations.

Students then learned how to create iMovies and created a book trailer. Check out our work! (Click on the play list from your class-- in youtube you can see individual projects).

5Schuver

5 Sweeeney

5 Nyangacha

iMovies

 In 5th Grade students read from a list of 15 genres. At the end of the year-- students picked their favorite book to create a book trailer for.

Students learned about important story elements in class and learned how to write a script.

In library, I taught students about why citing images is important and then taught students how to find images using the creative commons and practiced citations.

Students then learned how to create iMovies and created a book trailer. Check out our work!

Mr. Sweeney's Class

Ms. Schuver's Class

Mr. Nyangacha's Class

Citing Websites and Online Images

I have noticed that students in grades 5 and 6 understand why images and websites must be given credit while doing research and projects. I have found that students have had a difficult time using correct MLA citation format and locating all of the parts of a site that are important to cite.

This year, I decided to create some lessons with my student teacher Molly Hazelton to teach students the parts of a website, how to copy and paste, as well as places to find free use images (we used Creative Commons).


I first taught students how to site websites using the above table. We assigned students a partner and after modeling to the class and providing them a sample to use-- the students were assigned 4 websites to site using this sheet that had websites linked up.

The following day- students practiced independently in class using this sheet. Molly made a video for the students to review the skills they had been taught. After their first day of practice she looked at what students had trouble with, and highlighted those skills.

Students are understanding that they can't just take images off of the internet-- so it is working!

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