Week 2-Level 4 BOOK TRAILERS

Watch some book trailers:

If you love a good movie trailer then you’ll love a good book trailer!  Book trailers are a fun readers advisory tool.  You can think of them as a video advertisement or commercial for a book.  Check out the links below to see some:

• Harper Collins
• Movies For Literacy
• Youtube  There are many book trailers available on YouTube.  Just enter a search term, such as, "Kids Book Trailers" in the search box and you’ll get many to choose from. 
  

Here are a few fun ones to check out:

• The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place
• Magic Under Glass
• Palazzo Inverso
• Duck!Rabbit!

Level 4 Exercise:

Blog about the trailers you watched.  Did any make you want to read the book?  Do you think they are a useful tool to motivate kids to read?   What are your ideas for using them professionally? Have you ever made a book trailer?  Share your ideas and thoughts. 

Extra Credit- Find a book trailer online and post it on your blog for others to watch.  Let us know why you chose it and what you liked about it.  Below is one that we posted for fun!