Thursday, March 15, 2012
Week 10: Book Trailers
Book trailers are exciting solutions to the boring book report. They do require careful planning by the teacher, and most likely group work to handle the varied tasks. However, "watchers are not always readers." How do YOU think a book trailer could influence a struggling or nonreader to reach for a good book?
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This "Book Trailer" solution to the boring book report opens up the door for the creative students. It allows the students to incorporate their ideas and inspirations by creating an attention grabbing and exciting trailer. Students must be organized with their writing process, must be logical, organized, and make use of the storyboard. Images, music, voice and other media allow for some extremely creative ideas. This method could certainly influence a struggling student to join in on the assignment due to the open ended creativity possibilities. This opens the possibilities up to all kids. Kids that otherwise don't engage in reading may enjoy this type of project. It lets them think about books in another light. What fun. cb
I see making a book trailer more as a motivational tool to get students to read a book. As they read, they could create or collect images of settings and characters and gather quotes from the novel to put into a trailer. djm
I've found that the best way to get a reluctant reader is to get other kids to urge them to try a favorite. The peer pressure is strong, especially at the beginning of the school year when we start talking about the summer reads. The students who haven't read THE OUTSIDERS check it out within a week or two. Tying some of those popular books to a student-prepared book trailer might drive home the enthusiasm as well.
I see the prospect of doing book trailers as being in itself motivating. Students will be more likely to read if they know they will be combining images and music to show to others. But I know a good book cover has gotten me to pick up a book, so a good book trailer would do that even more effectively. AB
Book trailers would help grab the interest of a non-reader because it is visual and auditory as opoposed to just reading a summary about the book. If the student makes a book trailer about a book they have read in place of writing a report. It appeals to their technolog side and may get them more involved in reading.
Book trailers are so much more dynamic than a written and/or oral summary of a book's plot. A good trailer has the potential of attracting reluctant readers. Use of sound, video clips and stills artfully stitched together can evoke emotion much more effectively than text alone. The trailer makes the statement - "pick up the book to find out how this emotional journey turns out." Tough to say no to such an emotional appeal.
A second thought is that the allure of creating one's own trailer can be a reason to read. A student knowing that he/she will be doing all the fun book trailer stuff once the book is read will be motivated to read it in the first place.
EL
Sometimes kids get bogged down in school with papers, pencils, books, notebooks, etc. Using tools from our children's world is much more appealing to them and lets them create and explore our avenues (i.e. books)in a more interesting and exciting way. Book trailers can also give better understanding and increase interest level for a student that may only haphazardly search for a book or read a book jacket. Fun is a great motivator! LA
I do not do book reports, but I can see the merit of book trailers.pa
I do not do book reports, but I can see the merit of book trailers.
pa
I do not do book reports, but I can see how it could get students interested in reading a particular book.
pa
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