Writing Starter
Book Review Template
Grades
K - 12
Printout Type
Writing Starter
About this printout
Students can use this template as a means of communicating about a book that they have read.
Teaching with this printout
As students begin reading books at a young age, it is important to teach them to communicate their thoughts and ideas about the books they read. This template is a good way to teach students to begin putting their thoughts on a text into written form. Students will be able to process the information they read in a given text and process their ideas. Additionally, the Book Review Template allows the teacher to check a student's comprehension of a certain text to assess and inform instruction.
More ideas to try
- Create a bulletin board with book reviews done by different students. The bulletin board can be organized by different genres of books or in other ways that are useful to students. Students can use this bulletin board as a way to read about their peers' thoughts on different books and to find books that they, too, might enjoy reading.
- At the beginning of the school year, do a read aloud and have students each do a book review on the same book that was read to the class. Have select students share their book reviews and/or thoughts on a book. Follow up by having a class discussion about why all of the book reviews are not alike, even though they were done on the same book. This discussion will familiarize students with different opinions and thoughts on the same books, and will also give struggling students a more concrete idea of how to do future book reviews on their own.