Book Talks

This week  everyone in my Social Studies class did a Book Talk. A Book Talk is a 3-4 minute explanation about some of a book, however you never want to give away the end. The point of a Book Talk is to give enough information that the people listening to the Book Talk will want to read the book. Our class all picked chapter books that were relevant to Social Studies. We also each made a PowerPoint slide with the book's title, author, and at least one Social Studies Standard the book addresses. I think this is a great lesson. Students can read a good book, tell their class about it, and then the whole class would have an entire list of great, entertaining Social Studies books (not just textbooks).