Student Book Trailers

Have you ever been to the movies and watched the previews for upcoming attractions? If you are like me, you have seen lots and lots of them!

Those previews for movies got me thinking. What if we took that same idea and applied it to books? We could have previews for awesome books in the library! And…..what if instead of me making them like the one I made for The One and Only Ivan, the STUDENTS made them? How awesome would that be?

That’s how our book trailer project got started! After the 4th grade students saw the “Ivan” trailer, they asked if they could make one too! A new technology and literacy project was born.

To get us started, we watched some other book trailers in our 4th grade library classes to get ideas on the website Booktrailersforall.com Then we watched some book trailers that I made. The One and Only Ivan trailer is the one that Katherine Applegate saw and asked to come to our school and meet us! You can see them here on my book trailer page on our blog.

There lots more information with photos of our project, on our Kid Lit Movies post.

 Tonight on the Titanic

Mary Pope Osborne

Good Morning, Gorillas

Mary Pope Osborne

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The Return of the Indian

Lynne Reid Banks

 Tale of Despereaux

Kate DiCamillo

Mummies in the Morning

Mary Pope Osborne

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever

Jeff Kinney

The Fire Within

by Chris D’ Lacey

Long Shot

by Mike Lupica

Bound for Oregon

by Jean Van Leeuwen

Big Nate Strikes Again

by Lincoln Peirce

Stone Fox

by John Reynolds Gardiner

  39 Clues: Maze of Bones

by Rick Riordan

Civil War on Sunday

by Mary Pope Osborne

 Bases Loaded

by

Mike Knudson

Ivy & Bean: Break the Fossil Record

by Annie Barrows

Paintball Invasion

by Jake Maddox