Cell phone

Your students will be enthusiastic to write text messages about the books that they have read with these fun cell phone templates.

These cell phone shaped graphic organizers will provide you with all of the teaching resources that you need for your students to write about the conflict and resolution of the story, as well as their favorite parts of their books.

When this fun book report project is completed, it is a two sided display that is perfect for hanging from the ceiling or displaying on a window so that both sides of the cell phone can be seen.

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These are the aspects your students should consider:

         Book Information: Title, Author, and Genre

• Incoming Text Message: Conflict of the Story ( Students pretend that the main character in the book has just sent them a text message telling them about the conflict that he or she is facing in the story.)
• Incoming Photograph: Students draw a picture from the story.
• ________ (main character's name) just called to tell me: Resolution of the Story (Students pretend that the main character of the book just called to tell them how the problem in the book was resolved.)
• Calling a Friend: Students pretend that they are calling a friend to recommend that he or she should read this book. They describe their favorite part of the story and why they are recommending that afriend should read this book.

This set includes 4 templates that assemble into the shape of a 2 sided cell phone. There is an area on the front of the phone for students to draw and color a picture of their favorite part of the book

For this assignment, allow your students to write their responses as they would if they were text messaging their friends. Children these days have an abundance of abbreviations and symbols that they use when they write text messages to their friends. Normallyyou would not allow  students  to use U(you), &(and), and other abbreviations (:o) and LOL) in their writing, but for this activity, it is appropriate.

Students really enjoy being able to write their text messages using the abbreviations and symbols that they commonly use in this form of communication. For some of the abbreviations that they use, you might need to have them "translated" for you as I am sure you probably will not know all of them.

 

Did you like the idea? I hope so!

Lara