Book Trailers

Our fifth grade students recently finished creating their book trailers and they turned out great!  A book trailer is an advertisement for a book...like a movie trailer.  For this project, students worked alone or in pairs.  After selecting a recently read book that they wanted to promote, the students then created a storyboard to organize their thoughts.  

Once the storyboard was created, the students then used the iPads to select several pictures from the Internet to go with their stories.  They learned how to use Google search tools to modify their search results to include only pictures that are labeled for noncommercial reuse.

After selecting pictures to use, some of the students used the ComicBook! app to make speech bubbles with the words they wanted to say.  Then, these images were loaded into iMovie to create the finished project.  Other students simply loaded the pictures directly into iMovie and added words there.  Finally, music was added along with a credits slide.

Our students learned many skills by making book trailers.  They learned how to determine important ideas from the text and convey these ideas in a creative way.  The students practiced using a graphic organizer to organize their thoughts.  They learned how to modify their Google search to include images that were acceptable to use and how to cite their image sources.  Finally, the students had fun using the iPads and the ComicBook! and iMovie apps! 

Here are a few of our trailers:

The completed book trailers have been loaded into Destiny, our library catalog system.  When students are looking for books to read in Destiny, they can watch trailers created by Harrison students!  The book trailers can also be found on our library website:  https://sites.google.com/site/hsd36libraryresources/homepage/book-trailers-2015.

Enjoy and happy reading!!