215: Highly Recommended: Book Trailers

This week I want to share a super simple strategy for building more book recommendations into your classes in just two or three minute installments, book trailers.

I first heard the idea of “Book Trailer Tuesdays” from Abby Gross, over at Write On with Miss G. I loved the idea right away, as a companion to First Chapter Friday or as its own unique program. But even if you’re not doing Book Trailer Tuesdays, book trailers are an amazing thing to build into your class.

Maybe you have a bookmarked list of trailers ready for those odd days when your lesson randomly ends five minutes earlier than you expect.

Maybe you change up your book talk routine now and then and show a trailer for a book or two that you have featured in your library.

Maybe you show a few trailers to help introduce a new genre, like novels-in-verse, or graphic novels. 

Maybe after all this book trailer fun, you have students make book trailers of their own and start building a collection you can show to your students in future years!

I hope you give book trailers a try this year!

 

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