Book Trailer Project for Any Book: Storyboard & Script, Grades 3-5

A book trailer project for any chapter book your students have finished, done entirely on paper. Students plan an eight-frame storyboard and write a short script that tells how the book begins, hints at what it is really about and stops on a cliffhanger, without giving the ending away.

What's inside

• 17 slides, with speaker notes on every slide
• Lesson plan, 2 pages
• Book Snapshot, 1 page: the made-up sample book, written for this lesson
• Student pages, 5 pages: 1 plan page, 2 pages of storyboard (8 frames) and 2 pages of script with the no-spoilers check
• Rubric and look-for key, 1 page, with one scored model
• Print All PDF, 9 pages: the lesson plan, Book Snapshot, student pages and rubric together

Answer key included

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