Not only movies get trailers

Book Trailers

For a culminating project for our fall novel studies, I thought it would be engaging for the students to create a book trailer using iMovie trailer. In iMovie trailers, you choose a theme and add pictures that you have taken with your iPad, modify the text to fit your book, and edit it. I made a sample, using Pax, the Global Read Aloud book for third grade, which I have embedded on myTech Tac Toe page of my website, so that I could teach them how to do it. I learned that in a movie trailer on the iPad that once you choose a theme, there is no turning back. So theme selection is important. The students read one of three different books. In one of the books, there were very few pictures, so I asked for Creative Commons to be added to our third grade websites page. Students used this link to add pictures for their trailers. 

The book trailers were a big success. The students had fun figuring out how to create and edit them. They loved making them, and could share their knowledge about the theme and mood of their novels in a new way. One of the things I noticed while the students were working is that using technology in this way gives all students a chance to excel. I shared my book trailer with my third grade teammates, and I shared the book trailers created by the students with the parents at conferences. The parents and I were very impressed with the kids' efforts. This is another project that I will be repeating. You can see my trailer below. For more information, please click here to visit my website. If you are interested in purchasing Pax, please click on the caption. It is a GREAT book!

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