BOOK CREATOR TEMPLATE - MY READING JOURNAL

If your students have iPads and the app Book Creator then this resource is a game changer. Interactive and motivating, this template allows children to manipulate elements, such as photos, videos, audios, shapes, maps and web links, to create outstanding responses to reading. Get your students reading for meaning. They will love it.

Please note, you need to open this file in Book Creator in order to work with it.

Airdrop this template to your students to open and manipulate in Book Creator.

Pages includes:

• Cover - students personalise to make the book their own.
• Novel Ranking - students manipulate columns on a graph to rank novels as they read them.
• Reading Responses - students take a photo of the cover; supply a comfort level; write down their opinions; rate the book using emojis; record themselves reading to get a words per minute (WPM) score; and record their completion date to keep a track of progress.
• Three Top Picks - here the students can video themselves justifying their short list of favourite books.
• Character Profile - discuss motivation, obstacles, characteristics of a particular character. Students could video themselves as that character or they could interview a character.

All pages can be copied as required.

Maps, web links, free hand drawing and more means that there are endless possibilities to responding to a text.

The students reading journals would prove invaluable at reading conferences, book clubs, goal setting, oral reports and parent/teacher interviews.