How to Make Book Reports Exciting

Adobe Spark Page Can Help Make Book Reports Exciting

Book reports are helpful assignments for teachers to assess how well their students understood a book. But how can you make a book report assignment more exciting for students? In this short video, Monica Burns shares one of her favorite tools for creating fun book reports.

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In the brief video above, Monica discusses how you can use Adobe Slate, which is her favorite book report tool. However, Adobe Slate is now inside the Adobe Spark app under the name Spark Page. An account is required to use this online tool, but it is free to use.

Students can bring their book reports to life with Spark Page. Have your students add content such as photos, videos, as well as text for a well-rounded presentation. Students can import photos from their device or from a cloud service. They can even search through the Spark Page gallery or use a template. Students can create individual sections for each segment of the book report: plot, characters, setting, and more. The end result is an interactive, beautifully-made book report that gets students excited to tell their story.

What is your favorite tool to make book reports exciting? Let us know in the Comments below.

About our “How to Make Book Reports Exciting” Presenter
Monica Burns is an Education Consultant, EdTech Blogger, and Apple Distinguished Educator. Monica works with teachers to make technology integration exciting and accessible at all grade levels. She has conducted well over 40 unique training sessions for SimpleK12. Please click here to take a look at more videos from Monica.

About the Author
Carolina Fransen is the EdTech Apps and Tools Editor at SimpleK12.com. She writes regularly about the use of educational technology in K-12 classrooms, and she loves investigating teaching jobs in some of her favorite locales. If you have an app, tool, website, or service that you think we should know about, please send your information or tip to editor@simplek12.com.