Creating a Dust Jacket

This resource takes students through designing a Dust Jacket cover for a book.
Students can choose to do a digital dust jacket, or they can make their own non digitally.

Teachers can take students through the different slides teaching to the criteria listed on the student writing slides.

Students will learn how to

identify all the parts of a dust jacket.
write a summary about a book with details about the characters, setting and plot.
create illustrations that give a sense of what the book is about.
find out information about the author and write a short biography.
search for Social Media links for the author and/or book.
research other books that the author might have written.
write a book review and voice their opinion about the book.
make recommendations about the book.
create a digital Dust Jacket using a variety of digital tools and applications to present information to my peers.