Hey, it's Katherine & Emilia here to tell you about our book reviews that we are going to give to Yellow Book Road (a local independent book store.)
Let's start by telling you a little bit about our project called ''The Yellow Book Road Project.'' This project started when we went to see Jeff Kinney (the author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series speak at Yellow Book Road. He said that he loved independent bookstores so we decided to find out what this meant. It turns out that independent bookstores are run and generally owned by people in the community. They might have less books in them than the big bookstores, but they have more freedom. For example, Yellow Book Road has agreed to see our book!
But back to the book reviews. One of the things that we are doing to help Yellow Book Road is writing book reviews for their shelves. These reviews will help their customers select perfect books. Because we wanted to do this well, the first thing we looked at were some professional book reviews. We did this to see what we should include in our reviews. We noticed exaggerated vocabulary, age range, one or two sentence summary of the book, who the main character is and what type of book it is (eg funny or sad). Speaking of exaggerated vocabulary, we made a list of the words we could use to help us when we are stuck. Why not stop by our classroom and have a look at our "We love books" wall to see the list for yourself?
We (Katherine and Emilia) really like doing book reviews. Here are some opinions on the project from our classmates:
Sara / Cayden- it is lots of fun, people are going to be coming into Yellow Book Road and seeing our book reviews!
Thaison/Quinn - we liked writing the book reviews but we love the fact that we can write our own stories too! You can read about this in our blog post!
By Katherine and Emilia
Let's start by telling you a little bit about our project called ''The Yellow Book Road Project.'' This project started when we went to see Jeff Kinney (the author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series speak at Yellow Book Road. He said that he loved independent bookstores so we decided to find out what this meant. It turns out that independent bookstores are run and generally owned by people in the community. They might have less books in them than the big bookstores, but they have more freedom. For example, Yellow Book Road has agreed to see our book!
But back to the book reviews. One of the things that we are doing to help Yellow Book Road is writing book reviews for their shelves. These reviews will help their customers select perfect books. Because we wanted to do this well, the first thing we looked at were some professional book reviews. We did this to see what we should include in our reviews. We noticed exaggerated vocabulary, age range, one or two sentence summary of the book, who the main character is and what type of book it is (eg funny or sad). Speaking of exaggerated vocabulary, we made a list of the words we could use to help us when we are stuck. Why not stop by our classroom and have a look at our "We love books" wall to see the list for yourself?
We (Katherine and Emilia) really like doing book reviews. Here are some opinions on the project from our classmates:
Sara / Cayden- it is lots of fun, people are going to be coming into Yellow Book Road and seeing our book reviews!
Thaison/Quinn - we liked writing the book reviews but we love the fact that we can write our own stories too! You can read about this in our blog post!
By Katherine and Emilia