5Th Grade Book Report

5th Grade Book Report

“Sending a Postcard”

Have you ever gone on vacation and sent a postcard to someone? Everyone loves to get a postcard! In this report you will write three postcards about different things that happened or that you learned about in your book. To begin, think about the important things that you read about. Then choose a person, place, and object from your book. These will be the subjects of your postcards. (If there is no person in your book, choose an animal or another topic.) Each postcard should have the following things:

Name of someone interested in the subject to send the postcard to- This could be anyone. Be creative and send it to a friend, the president, a celebrity, or anyone!

Address of person-If you don’t know it then make one up, be sure it is a complete address with street, city, state, and zip code.

Message – What did you learn in your book about this person, place, and object?

Picture – A picture on the front of the postcard with color and detail symbolizing what the postcard is about.

Create four total postcards. The first one should be a cover with the book title, author, any illustrator (if there is one), and a picture that is important to the book included on the front of the card. The extra questions should be on the back of this first postcard. Then each additional postcard should have a picture on the front and then the message and address on the back. Each postcard’s message should have a minimum of one quality paragraph.

Extra Questions to be answered on the back of the first card:

1. What is the author’s purpose of writing this book? (inform, entertain, inform in an interesting way) and what is the theme? Example: If your book was about the medical teams of Pearl Harbor who aided the injured, then you might answer that the book was to inform the reader about the heroes who risked their lives to save wounded an injured on that dreadful day.

2. List the main characters or important people in your book, and if you were in the story, who would you want to be and why?

3. Describe the important characteristics of the main character or subject of your book, and give examples from the text. Example: In the story Billybobshows us he was heroic, because he risked his life to save the dog when a runaway ice cream truck almost hit him.

4. Would you suggest other people to read this book? Why or Why not?

Grading Rubric:

Postcard 1

Book Title / Author / Illustrator / picture___ / 4

Extra Questions on back of card___ / 25

(see bottom of other page for questions)

Postcard 2

Name___ / 2

Address___ / 2

Message (about why they will like the character)___ / 10

Picture (Person in your book)___ / 3

Postcard 3

Name___ / 2

Address___ / 2

Message (about why they will like the setting) ___ / 10

Picture (A place, or setting, in your book)___ / 3

Postcard 4

Name___ / 2

Address___ / 2

Message (about the plot of the story)___ / 10

Picture (An object, or thing, in your book)___ / 3

Conventions___ / 10

Creativity/Effort___/ 10

Total___ / 100

Due Date:______

Name:______