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Richard Byrne writes: "Creating book trailer videos is a great alternative to a traditional written book report assignment. In a book trailer video students highlight their favorite elements of a story and try to entice viewers to read the book themselves."
Via Mary Reilley Clark
A few days before we went on winter break, I was brainstorming ideas for January library visits. I decided to broach the idea of a book trailer contest with the 6th grade teachers, and immediately heard back from over half of them that they were in! I'm hopeful that we can tie this in to our annual March Madness contest, too.
The idea (at the moment) is to have students create individual book trailers on one platform, with a maximum length of... 60 seconds? 90? I'll have to play with this. (I am leaning toward using Adobe Spark as the platform, which Richard demonstrates in his blog post.) Each class will then vote for their top three. Those finalists will be shown on our daily TV news, and voting will be open to all students. I think I'll also post the finalists on the library webpage for students who may miss a day of school (or whose teachers still aren't showing TV news each morning!)
I'm also planning on an awards show for the finalists, with a red carpet, paparazzi (our yearbook students) and popcorn! 650 sixth grade students--I hope I didn't create a monster! For the third year in a row I will be out the last day before spring break, so I will leave my part-time library tech with the job of tallying and posting the winners. We will have to have the awards ceremony after break. There's a lot still to plan, but Richard's post, along with my presentation--with bonus cheesy trailers--will get us started in January.