Unrealistic Fiction Book Reports

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1 Book Reports Grades 2-4 Language Arts Activities Unrealistic Fiction Book Reports By Heart2HeartTeaching.com By Heart2HeartTeaching.com

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3 Teacher Directions and Ideas: Every month my students read a different genre of book and complete a creative book report that they present to the class as part of their Language Arts grade. It s time to be creative! The Unrealistic Fiction Character Star Book Report requires the students to learn about inside and outside character traits, read an unrealistic fiction book, and create a character star poster. On the day they present their book reports to the class they dress up as the main character from their book. Students absolutely love doing this book report! What a fun and creative way to get students reading and presenting! It includes a rubric for grading purposes. This Book Report product includes: *Unrealistic Fiction Vocabulary Poster *Student/Parent directions for this Book Report *Character Star Template and directions *Character Star Organizer *Grading Rubric *List of Suggested Unrealistic Fiction Books Happy Reading!

4 Unrealistic Fiction A story that could not happen in the real world such as stories with wizards, ghosts, talking animals and superheroes.

5 Unrealistic Fiction Book Report Genre: Unrealistic fiction Definition: A story that could not happen in the real world. (Think: ghost, wizards, superheroes, talking animals, and other worlds.) Type of report: Book character dress up and character star book report form. It s time to be creative! For the Unrealistic Fiction Book Report, you will be dressing up as the book character of your choice. Pick an unrealistic fiction book from home or select one from the school library. Then start reading! After reading your book, you will become the main character to present your report. There is no need to go out and buy a costume. Be creative and see what you can find around the house. Use any art supplies you have, and look through your closets to see what you might be able to use. After deciding on your costume, you will make a character star using the template on the next pages. Please recreate the character star on a poster. You will complete each point of the star as shown, using your Character Star Organizer. The character stars will be presented to the class while you are dressed up as a character from the book. Be a Character Star!

6 Design a Character Star Directions: Recreate this Character Star on a poster. Fill out each point of the star with the correct information from your Character Star Organizer as shown on the next page. Add the name and picture of the main character in the center of the star.

7 Design a Character Star Directions: Recreate this Character Star on a poster. Fill out each point of the star with the correct information from your Character Star Organizer as shown here. Add the name and picture of the main character in the center of the star. A description of Character OR Outside Character Traits Name and picture of the character goes here!

8 Character Star Organizer Describe the main character from the book using outside character traits. What does he/she look like? Inside Character Traits are traits that we can see through actions in the story. Name and describe 2 Inside character traits with actions from the story. Be sure to include page numbers to support it. 1. Page Number 2. Page Number How am I different from the main character in the story?

9 Character Star Organizer How am I similar to the main character in the story? Character Traits Character Traits are adjectives that describe what a character is like. There are inside and outside traits. The inside traits are identified or inferred by what a character says, does, and by what people say about the traits for your Unrealistic Fiction Book Report. Character Traits Support for the Character Trait Page Number

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11 Suggested Unrealistic Fiction Book List Magic Treehouse books Dr. Seuss books like Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, etc. Bunnicula Arthur books Spongebob books Magic Schoolbus books Rainbow Magic- Whitney the Whale Fairy Geronimo Stilton Captain Underpants Dogs in the Dead of Night Katie Kazoo Switcheroo Harry Potter books The Hunger Games Chronicles of Narnia books Many of Road Dahl Books like: James and the Giant Peach Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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