Super Book Projects

This is the Read At Home folder each student has.

One of the reading and writing standards in my state requires third graders to respond to literature throughout the year. I spent a lot of time early on in the school year teaching various formats of reading response and what constitutes a quality response. I wanted to provide my kids with lots of opportunities to continue responding to books that they read independently, not just during the unit I was teaching. So...I developed a reading response book project tic-tac-toe game board (phew! that is a long title) that I integrated with my students monthly read at home program.

The super book project board is stapled under the reading log so that I can just

tear them off each month and add a new reading log (this one is currently missing the reading log

for some reason though). My kids only need to turn in their logs on a monthly basis. 

The cute cards on the right side of the folder came from 

Mrs. Winston. 

Here is a bit of background about my students reading homework to set the scene...
My students are required to read for 30 minutes (at least) each night and record their book title, total minutes read, reading level (just right, challenging, too easy) as well as the genre, using a code system I include on the reading log. I stapled the reading log and a few other reading resources such as discussion prompts into a laminated folder I called the Read At Home Folder or RAH for short. I do have a team theme kicking in my classroom this year after all. Under the reading log I staple the tic-tac-toe reading project game board. I called it "Super Book Projects" because I had cute superhero clipart that absolutely needed to be used! I wanted to provide the kids with some variety this year so I created three different boards, one for each trimester with slightly different project ideas. I also have a big old stack of monthly book project rubrics in my classroom that I require the kids to attach to the project prior to handing them in. I kept the rubrics the same all year.

Here are the Super Book Project tic-tac-toe boards for the whole year. There are three of them, I just loaded them at two different times. The first file is September, October, November.



Here are the game boards for December-May.


Also, here are some extras that I include with the RAH folder. The first file is the Reading Log I use.


This is the Discussion Prompt list I include in the folder to help families support their awesome readers!



I probably should have posted the rubric for these monthly book projects but I think I created and saved it on my school computer...bummer! If you are interested, leave me a comment and I'll be sure to track it down and post it for you. Also, I would love to hear about any fourth grade monthly reading assignments that I might be able to use with some of my super duper high readers and out of the box thinkers.