Morning Announcements featuring Booktalks
This morning the first of five of the booktalks was presented in conjunction with my planned reading enrichment unit. Reflection upon the unit: The unit has received much enthusiasm by the administration and staff. I would undertake some of the steps differently when I repeat this unit. I would, periodically throughout the year, ask individual students to give booktalks. I would record these booktalks and build up a library of booktalks and store them on the school's server for later use. During the Teen Read Week (or another week depending on age level), I would play a booktalk each day of the week on the morning announcements. Otherwise, I would sporadically plug in a booktalk every 3-4 weeks on the morning announcement as space/time allows. I would also show students previous examples of booktalks and the length of written text needed to create a short, 1-minute talk. Most students feared they would have to write pages of a summary to make the booktalk 1 minute in length, when in actuality, it requires only one paragraph. The survey portion of the booktalk was fun and I believe the students and staff enjoyed finding out which books made the school's top ten list.
