BookaKucha is a Pecha-Kucha style book talk. The lesson is from Jon Corippo and Marlena Hebern's book Eduprotocols. Students present four to five slides about the book they are currently reading. These presentations generally run about two minutes per student
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PechaKucha (Japanese for “chit chat”) is the world’s fastest-growing storytelling platform, used by millions around the globe. PechaKucha is what “Show and Tell” always dreamed of becoming. 20 slides. 20 seconds of commentary per slide. That’s it. Simple. Engaging. Spurring authentic connections.
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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:
Title
Character/Conflict/Setting/Theme/etc.
Character/Conflict/Setting/Theme/etc.
Character/Conflict/Setting/Theme/etc.
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.
The video on the left is a screencast created by the teacher going over how a #BookaKucha works.
This video is an example of a student's #BookaKucha and his presentation screencast.
This video shows how a student used FlipGrid to present her #BookaKucha