Book Review - IVE



Book Review

Tell others your understanding and opinion of the book.

You first have to figure out what type of book you have…

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|Narrative (tells a story) |Expository (gives information) |

|Paragraph 1: Topic Sentence Summary |Paragraph 1: Topic Sentence Summary |

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|1. Start with a topic sentence. Make an IVF chart to help form the sentence |1. Start with a topic sentence. Make an IVF chart to help form the sentence |

|(Identify, Verb, Finish your thought). For example: Gregor the Overlander tells |(Identify, Verb, Finish your thought). For example: Strangest Animals travels all |

|how Gregor falls into the Underland and is drawn into a conflict with strange |over the world to describe some of the weirdest creatures on our planet! |

|creatures as well as discovers the fate of his missing father. |2. List 3-5 important ideas. |

|2. List 3-5 important events from beginning to end. |3. Turn steps 1 and 2 into a paragraph. |

|3. Turn steps 1 and 2 into a paragraph. | |

|Paragraph 2: Theme or Message |Paragraph 2: Author’s Opinion or Point of View |

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|What is the book really about? What’s the life lesson? |1. What did the author think about this topic? For |

|1. Pick a topic to focus on: |example, the author thought making cupcakes is very |

|courage family determination trust |creative, fun, and a great hobby. |

|freedom hope overcoming fear honesty | |

|friendship love growing up acceptance |2. Give two or three examples from the text to support your opinion. What clues in|

|2. What message about that word did the author want the reader to learn? For |the text made |

|example, having courage can lead to great rewards, or friendship is hard work but |you think that? |

|worth it. | |

|3. Give two or three examples from the text to support your choice. What clues in | |

|the text made | |

|you think that? | |

|Paragraph 3: Your Opinion |Paragraph 3: Your Opinion |

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|1. Give an opinion about the characters, settings, |1. Give an opinion about the ideas or facts. For example, |

|events, problem, or the solution. For example, the |orca whales are more interesting than humpback whales. |

|main character, Camilla, was way too worried about | |

|what other people thought of her. |2. Give two or three examples from the text to support your opinion. What clues in|

|2. Give two or three examples from the text to support your opinion. What clues in|the text made |

|the text made you think that? |you think that? |

Presentation Project Ideas

Before your presentation, write a topic sentence summary for your Teacher to look at while you tell us about your book.

Ask if you need any materials.

| Big Book | Read All About it! |

|Make a Big Book (poster paper folded in |Create a newspaper for your book. Summarize the plot in one article, cover the |

|Half) by choosing one of the most important |weather in another, do a feature story on a character or the author in another,|

|scenes in the book and creating a comic |make a comic based on the book, etc… You can even |

|strip on the inside of the Big Book. Include |include ads that relate to your book. |

|captions and speech bubbles. | |

| Collage | Character Board |

|Create a collage to get your classmates |Become your character! Draw a life-size image of your character on a large |

|interested in reading your book. Cut out |poster, but cut the face out of the poster big enough so you can fit your own |

|pictures, photographs, words, colored |face in that hole from the back. Acting as if you were the character, tell us |

|paper, or your own illustrations, and glue |about your adventure! |

|them all together on poster paper in an | |

|interesting way. | |

|Timeline (Great for Historical Fiction) | PowerPoint |

|Create a timeline of the main events in your |Make a PowerPoint with one slide for |

|text by connecting several pieces of paper |each of the following categories. |

|together. Include captions, illustrations, or |Narrative |

|cut-out pictures along the timeline. |Characters |

| |(list and describe) |

| |Settings |

| |(list and describe) |

| |Main problem |

| |Events |

| |Solution to the |

| |main problem |

| |Theme |

| |Your Opinion |

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| |Expository |

| |Topic |

| |How it’s organized |

| |People Involved |

| |Big Ideas |

| |What’s Important |

| |to remember? |

| |Author’s Opinion |

| |Your Opinion |

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| Map It Out | Paper Bag Presentation |

|Design a map or model of a setting or |Find 5 to 7 objects that represent the |

|settings used in your book. Label it with |people, places, things, or ideas in your |

|arrows and brief sentences to tell us |book, and then put them into a paper bag. Pull out these items one at a time |

|what key events happened at this setting(s). |during |

| |a presentation to tell us about your book. |

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