Scholastic Booktalks

This idea comes from the Scholastic Book Fairs Book Blurbs (chairperson's toolkit)

• Use The Booktalks provided by Scholastic Bookfairs (Archive on Google Drive) to Advertise your book fair by posting them around campus.  

  • Use this form to print your book fair dates on the bottom.

• Use these booktalks throughout the year to passively booktalk one book on display.

• Have your ASB use them as a script during book fair to promote the books in classes or on your announcements.

• Put several booktalks on each table.  Students read the booktalks and decide which books they would like to check out.  Teach students how to place holds on books.  

• Put them in a binder alphabetized by Title, Author, or Genre.  

• Many of these books also have BookTrailers by Scholastic.

• You can also have students create their own using the Booktalk Template Lesson.

• Scholastic also provides more Booktalks and Discussion Guides on their Teacher Page

• The samples below are created by MRS GRU using the Booktalk Template in Google Slides.  Google Slides is better than docs for image manipulation.  

See Also:

• Toilet Papers from The Book Wrangler FREE on TpT

Activity:

Snowball Fight shared by Terra Hazen on The School Librarian's Workshop Facebook Group:

Snowball Fight!!! (Library Style) I picked out some of the library's best winter themed books, printed out the book reviews from goodreads, and crumpled them up into snowballs! After explaining the rules (below), I had students battle it out in three rounds, unfolding and reading the book review inside at the end of each round. If students liked a 'snowball book review', they recorded the name of book on a winter themed bookmark and then had an opportunity to check out the books after our last game. (I'm sharing because it worked great!) I also like that you can adjust the time the activity takes by changing the number of rounds. (If students get the same snowball twice I have them swap with their neighbor.) 

**Rules are the key to success if you decide to try this! Go over them BEFORE handing out the snowballs. My game rules are: 1) Aim from the neck down, 2) Stand up and tuck in your chair when I say "Stand" 3) Don't start until I say "Go" 4) Freeze when I say "Freeze" 5) Find a snowball and sit down when I say "Find it"! Depending on the class, I also add in a 'no running' rule. After each round they crumple the reviews back into snowballs. After the last round students crumple back up their snowball and I put a box in the middle of the room and they try to toss their snowball in from their seat. We pick up the 'misses' and then I have all the snowballs ready for the next class!