HEAT Up Those Book Talks!

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Do you need to jazz up your book talks?

Want your students to create their own talks - maybe using FlipGrid or Loom or a classroom YouTube Channel?

Allow me to share just two resources about book talking:


Bring the HEAT to Your Book Talks

This excellent blog post from The Reading Roundup leans more toward student book talks and provides free templates to help students create better book talks.





This curated Wakelet list triples as an instruction manual and an assignment. It's concise (we love that!) and also thorough. It outlines best practices and provides examples of both hot 👍 and not-so-hot 👎 book talks.
 


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