How to Do a #BookaKucha with Your Students

The teacher assigns a slide template with prompts relating to character, setting, conflict, plot, theme, or whatever you want students to focus on sharing about the text. The makeup of the slide template goes something like this:

1. Title

2. Character/Conflict/Setting/Theme/etc.

3. Character/Conflict/Setting/Theme/etc.

4. Character/Conflict/Setting/Theme/etc.

5. Quote*

The Quote slide is the one teachers have said really gets students talking about what they thought about the book rather than reading notes off of their slide.  

Students read throughout the week and work on slides. Keep your template slides pretty simple because you can end up with students spending more time working on slides than they are spending reading a book and that's no good.  Some teachers have changed the rules a little to support students that had issues presenting in front of the class and allowed them to do a screencast recording of their presentation using Screencastify, WeVideo, or even a Flipgrid video.    Some teachers allowed students to read the same books and work together on slides and presentations if they wanted to do that.