Book Blogging Page: Book One, Trimester One

Here is where you will post your book blogs and view the book blogs of your classmates!

Book Blogging Format

How to Blog a Book

To get full credit for your blogged book review, you must post in the correct format. Your book review needs to include the information posted below. The easiest way to make sure that you have it all is to simply copy and paste this information into your comment! 

Don't forget, your summary needs to be at least two paragraphs long!

• Book Title
• Author
• Number of Pages
• Genre
• Main Characters
• Setting
• Summary
• Your Review (How did you like the book, and why? What was your favorite part? What did you like the most/the least about this book? Who would you recommend it to, and why?)
• Your 3 Book Blog Question Responses

Common Core Alignment

just in case you were wondering...


Please read the following to learn more about how this blog aligns with the Common Core ELA Standards at each grade level:

Grade 5 ELA

• RL.5.2 Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text. 
• RL.5.3 Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).
• RL.5.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 4–5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

Grade 6 ELA

• RL.6.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments. 
• RL.6.3 Describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution. 
• RL.6.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. 

Grade 7 ELA

• RL.7.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
• RL.7.3 Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot). 
• RL.7.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

Grade 8 ELA

• RL.8.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text. 
• RL.8.3 Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
• RL.8.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of grades 6–8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

Welcome, Book Bloggers!

Book Bloggers unite as we share this blog to write, read, and comment on book reviews. We will work together as a class to build a blog dedicated to the incredible books we will read throughout the school year!

Lesson Objectives:

1. Students will learn how to post to a blog appropriately.
2. Students will post a review of a book and comment on two other reviews in the class.