Spark a Love for Reading Quickly and Easily with Google Slides Book Report Templates!
- anpoipinsf
- Jun 28, 2024
- 3 min read
How many times have you scoured TPT or Pinterest looking for a resource to give your kiddos some practice with summary writing, only to be let down by a lack of depth or scaffolding in the prompts? Too often, book report or story sequence resources ask students to just "write a summary" or "list the beginning, middle, and end" without providing enough guidance for students to connect story events in meaningful ways. Sound familiar?
My students always get excited for book reports and projects. They love taking ownership of a story, an animal, or an historical figure and sharing what they know. They also get a little nervous when deciding what to share and how much (or how little) to include. I have seen this lead to everything from disjointed summaries that confuse minor setbacks with overarching problems to nearly complete retellings of entire novels.
As a teacher, I know it can take an enormous amount of time to create meaningful and rigorous assessments that are also engaging, approachable, and easy for students to complete independently. So, how do we provide structure and support for our students while reducing overwhelm for ourselves? I hope to take the bulk of that work off your plate!
We're Here to Help!
Our Interactive Book Report Templates can be used as a teaching tools for introducing plot structure, as end of unit projects, or even as a book report templates.
Plot Structure Mountain
Our most popular template, the Plot Mountain Interactive Book Report can be adapted for students from 4th grade to freshman year! The slides in this resource include prompts that provide structure and scaffolding, allowing students to reflect on the story elements and plot in ways that are appropriate for their age and developing skills. All of the text boxes are editable so you can change the prompts to suit your students or add borders for more structure. Duplicate pages and adjust the content and links if your students need more space for each story element. The Background tool can also be used to remove the background images and add your own theme. Students familiar with keyboarding and Google Workspace should be able to jump right in!
Included Slides
Getting Started
The title slide offers room for students to type the title and author of the book they are reading. The following slide, showing the Plot Mountain Diagram, is hyperlinked, so, while in presentation mode, students can jump to different pages during their journey up the mountain. Also included is a slide for students to discuss the genre. Increasingly important as students get older, identifying or knowing the genre of a book can be critical when previewing a book or making predictions about a story's outcome.
Exposition
Included in the exposition section is a slide to identify and illustrate the main and supporting characters, as well as a slide to describe the characters further and discuss their relationships to each other. These are followed by an additional slide to name, describe, and illustrate the time and location of the story's setting.
Sequence of Events
Instead of trying to squeeze the entire plot of the story onto one slide, students are given four slides to describe the conflict, beginning (Rising Action), middle (Rising Action, Climax), and end (Falling Action, Resolution) of the story. Prompts for each section assist students in connecting story events critical to plot and character development.
Wrapping Up
As a bonus, a slide for students to write a critique of the story and a slide where students can write a meaningful quote are included.
Printable Template Now Included!
A companion to Interactive Book Reports, our Plot Mountain Printable Book Report Template, is now included free when you purchase the Plot Mountain Interactive Book Report!
Offered lined and unlined, this blackline printable gives your students the flexibility to gather and organize their ideas by hand during the reading and note-taking process before they jump into the typing. It can even be used as a rough draft for a final poster-sized presentation.
All of the Google Slides listed above are included in a printer/copier friendly black and white version. We've also added a 4-page guide for writing the story details as a summary paragraph.
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