Creating Book Trailers to Spark Reading and
Promote 21st Century Literacy
Creating Book Trailers: A digital alternative to book reports
Book Trailers...
Promote Reading
Engaging Digital Natives
Are FUN!
Process:
1) Expose students to examples of book trailers
http://tinyurl.com/c5zp95g
2) Pick the right book to read
3) Write a script
4) Complete a Story Board
This is found in Google Docs
Introduce author & characters
Describe the action
Don't give away plot twists!
Don't give away the ending!
5) Find pictures
Use Google images or
Take digital pictures
Here comes the fun!
6) Begin creating your book trailer
Remember to save to your book trailer folder!
Choose a tool to use:
Animoto
Photostory
Moviemaker
http://voicethread.com/book.swf?b=2963895
Other ways to use Animoto, Photostory, Moviemaker
or Voicethread:
- Digital Story Telling
- Photo Journals for labs, trips, etc.
- Instructional Videos
- Short Stories using student illustrations
- Timelines/History Projects
- Sequencing of events
Summarizing stories
- Science Processes; Lifecycle
- How to solve Math Equations
- Creation of Poetry and Narration
Beauty: Aids all styles of learners!
- Stacy Bumgamer "BookTrailers 101"
- Lisa Stringfellow "Engaging readers digitally"
- Students from Dr. Smirnova's "Social Studies Methods" classes of 2012
http://tinyurl.com/83fh5jn
http://tinyurl.com/7j75xnt