How To Write A Book Review Writing Lesson - Teaching PowerPoint + Activities!

This resource includes everything you need to teach children grades 2 to 5 how to plan and write engaging and well-structured book reviews.

The resource is a PowerPoint presentation lesson complete with:

√ Learning objective
√ Success criteria
√ Differentiated starter activity (3 levels)
√ Teaching input/ information slides
√ Example of a good book review
√ Feature checklists for each part of a review
√ Whole class/ shared writing activities
√ Independent writing tasks
√ Speaking, listening, reading & writing tasks
√ Differentiated checklists for writing task (3 levels)
√ Peer review tasks
√ All answer slides
√ Plenary

Learning Objective:
LO: To identify the features of and write my own book review

Success Criteria:
I can read and understand a book review.
I can describe the structure of a book review.
I can explain the purpose of a book review.
I can identify key details of a book.
I can summarise a story.
I can describe my opinion of a book.

Lesson details:

• Starter activity - differentiated match up task for text types and their purpose (3 levels of differentiation)
• Teaching input/ information slides - reviews and book reviews
• Consolidation task
• Whole class speaking activity - mind map
• Example of a good book review (four slides)
• Info slides - structure of a book review + consolidation task
• Shared/ modelled write task + guide
• Independent write + differentiated feature checklists for book reviews (3 levels)
• Plenary - peer review task

PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.

This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.