Grade 1-3 Teacher Guidelines

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GRADE
 
1-3
 
Teacher Guidelines 
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pages 1 – 2
 
Instructional Pages 
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pages 3 – 4
Activity Page 
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pages 5 – 6
Practice Page 
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page 7
Homework Page 
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page 8
 
Answer Key 
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pages 9 –10
WRITING A
BOOK REPORT

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*Lessons are aligned to meet the education objectives and goals of 
most states. For more information on your state objectives, contact 
your local Board of Education or Department of Education in your state.
1
Classroom Procedure:
1. Sit in the front of the room or gathering area with one of 
your personal favorite children’s picture books or novels. 
Ask the class to join you and hold up the text. Say, “Who 
has a favorite book?” Call on volunteers to tell you the titles 
of the books. Then say, “This book is my favorite book. Let 
me tell you what happens in this book.” Tell the students 
a brief summary of the book (almost like an oral book 
report) and then proceed to tell the students why you like 
the book. Ask students who shared a favorite book if they 
can give a summary and a few reasons why they like the 
book. Explain that what students have just done is give 
a book report. Explain, “A book report is an after reading 
activity where the reader reports what happens in the book, 
and then shares their opinion about the book so that other 
readers will want to enjoy the book as well. Today, we are 
going to start working on creating book reports. We will 
look at the structure, things that need to be included, and 
good tips for writing a report.”
2. Say, “Let’s listen to a story together now and then read a 
book report about the story. This story is called Brave Irene 
by William Steig.” Use your computer or smartboard to go 
to this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoOFL_Gz_
C4 to hear the story read aloud. If you do not have that 
technology available and cannot borrow the text from the 
library, here is the story in full text : https://www.scribd.com/
doc/16636067/Brave-Irene (free to join and print out, or 
can be read through on screen). 
3. After hearing the story, read the book report (attached) and 
ask students to note what they hear the author include, 
such as retelling the plot, author and illustrator names, 
summarizing, including important events, explaining why 
they recommend the book, etc. As they give answers, write 
them on the board to use in creation of the anchor chart.