Book Tasting Launch Lesson & Setup Guide, Grades 3-6

Run a book tasting with the books already in your room. This lesson teaches students what a book tasting is and how to "taste" a book in five minutes, and the setup guide shows you how to set it up without buying a thing.

What's inside

• 13 lesson slides, with speaker notes on every slide
• 12 Timer Slides: a welcome slide, how a round works, five rounds of "Taste your book" (5 minutes) and "Pass it on" (1 minute), and a last-call slide
• Lesson plan, 2 pages: 40-minute sequence keyed to slide numbers, a 25-minute version and a Watch For list
• Setup Guide, 2 pages: what you need, tables, rounds, helping every reader, and clean-up
• Editable invitation, 1 page
• Table signs, 7 pages: six numbered table signs and a table manners sign
• Tasting Tray, 2 pages: two made-up books (blurb, first page and a middle page) to practice with
• Student pages, 2 pages: the Table Talk Card and a How to Taste a Book page

Answer key included

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