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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Book Trailers

One of my many goals this year is to expose students to more books.  We already do this through student sharing, classmate recommendations, and teacher sharing, but I am wanting to take time each week to show one book trailer which advertises a new or existing children's book.  While searching, I found this one:




Third grade is a great year for Mr. Popper's Penguins, and I liked that this was short but to the point. I also liked it for its use of vocabulary. I am thinking I can have this lead directly into a lesson on context clues.

Do you use book trailers in your classroom? Do you have a special place that you find them or that you recommend? I would love to get ideas on using book trailers in my classroom.

4 comments:

Barbara said...

I see most of my book trailers on You Tube - the district finally unblocked this site for us. Here's one you'll LOVE - the book is called Your Fantastic Elastic Brain:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch3kbXBah5Y

Flashlight Press is now doing book trailers; their new book looks really cute! I also saw one for Cloudette by Tom Lichtenheld on You Tube that was ADORABLE!!!

Barbara

Mrs. Shepherd said...

As I was going through my blog roll, I found this link to book trailers http://mrspilver.wikispaces.com/Book+Trailers.

She also has lots of other tech products she did with her students.

Julie said...

What a wonderful idea! I can't wait to use book trailers in my classroom this year. Thank you so much for sharing.

Rebecca Rojas said...

Ooh, great idea! Hope I can get onto these sites at school!!