The Past is Wow!Creating Book Trailers That Make

Kids Want to Read Historical Fiction

Jude Harrington, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

jharrington@uwlax.edu

Who are You?

What age level do you teach? Do you have any experience with doing

Book Talks with students? Do you have any experience with creating

Book Trailers for or with students? What books have you done Book Trailers

for?

Slides adapted from Lisa Risch, School District of Holmen, presentation August 2014

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Book Trailers Video book talks to promote the reading of a

book

A short trailer with sound (voice, music), text, and images to promote the reading of the novel

Book Reports on Steroids!

Book trailers have been created by students, teachers,

librarians, publishers, and authors

Graphic Artist: Devin Harclerode

http://fiverr.com/textile/paint-a-psychedelic-portrait-of-whoever

Goals for This Session

Share examples of book trailers

Share tools for creating book trailers

Share rubric for quality control

Time to explore

http://cosproductions.com/videos/view/Birmingham_Sundayhttp://cosproductions.com/videos/view/Birmingham_Sunday

Why Book Trailers?

Multi-literacy skills include print, digital, hypertext, images

Tap into students interests and skills

Enhance understanding of diverse texts

Offers alternative ways to respond to reading a book

Encourages critical thinking and analysis

Reading Historical Texts

Experts

Seek to discover context and know content

As what the text does (purpose)

Understand the subtexts of the writers language

See texts as made by persons with a view of events

Assume bias in texts

Novices

Seek only to know content

Ask whet the text says (facts)

Understand the literal meanings of the writers language

See texts as accounts of what really happened

Assume neutrality, objectivity in texts

See Lightfoot endnote for source details

7 Reasons to Teach with Historical Fiction

1. Piques curiosity

2. Levels the playing field

3. Hammers home everyday details

4. Puts people back in history

5. Presents complexity of issues

6. Promotes multiple perspectives

7. Connects social studies learning across curriculum Tarry Lindquist, Instructor magazine, Oct. 1995 on Scholastic.com

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/why-how-i-teach-historical-fiction

Historical fictionWhat is it?

Book selection

Romanticized accounts

Viewpoint author background

date of publication

Stereotypical descriptions

Notable omissions & expansions

Anachronistic details

Click on Book Trailer examples How would you rate?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YTHtiVOcPAhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YTHtiVOcPAhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-QOMvc69pUhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-QOMvc69pUhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHbW2dliCLshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHbW2dliCLshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy28ITcJT3ghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy28ITcJT3g

Fabulous Historical Fiction Books

Whats your favorite Historical Fiction book for the age level you teach?

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Some of my students favorites

INTERMEDIATE

Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco

Steal Away Home by Lois Ruby

Clouds of Terror by Catherine A. Welch

The Shadow Children by Stephen Schnur

ADVANCED

With Every Drop of Blood: A Novel of the Civil War by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

Under the Blood-Red Sun by Graham Salisbury

The Captive by Joyce Hansen

The Glory Field by Walter Dean Myers

Examples by Middle School Students

Book Trailers by Kids examples

Voice example:

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

More trailers Slime Kids

Music no voice example:

Sing Down the Moon by Scott ODell

http://www.booktrailersforreaders.com/Home+Student+Book+Trailershttp://www.booktrailersforreaders.com/Number+the+Stars+Student+Book+Trailerhttp://www.slimekids.com/book-trailers/http://www.slimekids.com/book-trailers/letter-s/sing-down-the-moon.htmlhttp://www.slimekids.com/book-trailers/letter-s/sing-down-the-moon.htmlhttp://www.booktrailersforreaders.com/The+Watsons+Go+to+Birmingham--1963+Student+Made+Trailerhttp://www.booktrailersforreaders.com/The+Watsons+Go+to+Birmingham--1963+Student+Made+Trailerhttp://www.slimekids.com/book-trailers/letter-l/leaving-gees-bend.htmlhttp://www.slimekids.com/book-trailers/letter-l/leaving-gees-bend.htmlhttp://www.slimekids.com/book-trailers/letter-l/little-audrey.htmlhttp://www.slimekids.com/book-trailers/letter-l/little-audrey.html

Sources for Online Book Trailers

Youtube

Teachertube

Schooltube

Scholastic

Teaching Books-Badgerlink

Book Trailers for Readers

Printz Previews

Naomi Bates Book Trailer Resources

School Library Journal Trailee Award

http://badgerlink.net/http://www.booktrailersforreaders.com/homehttp://printzpreviews.blogspot.com.au/http://www.livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=13228 http://www.slj.com/2015/01/collection-development/jlg-booktalks/and-the-winners-are-teen-lit-award-contenders/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoSAMiKzBzAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoSAMiKzBzAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3jozg4BxTshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3jozg4BxTs

Examples by Teachers

http://www.slimekids.com/book-trailers/letter-s/shooting-the-moon.htmlhttp://www.slimekids.com/book-trailers/letter-s/shooting-the-moon.htmlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzV_528YZBYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzV_528YZBY

The Process

Choose a book

Read the book

Analyze the book what was good, unique, interesting, etc.

Write a first draft impressions, feelings, important points

Create a storyboard

Plan effects (transitions, sound, colors, etc.)

Review the plan with teachers, other students

Create the trailer

Storyboarding

A collection of sketches showing how to organize a story and a list of its contents

Plan out your digital story in a visual way what goes first, next, etc. including timing and text (how long image on screen 3 second optimum)

Allows you to see the entire sequence/flow

Visual transitions are worked out

Work out dialogue (voiceovers)

Work out music want it to go with the image, enhance feeling

Steps1. Script

2. Find images

3. Storyboard

4. Add images to Movie Maker

5. Add animation

6. Add captions

7. Add music

8. Add credit page at end

Images from Library of Congress

Copyright Free Images

Google Research Filter

Pics4Learning

Wisconsin Media Lab

The Morgue File

Unsplash

Picjumbo

Magdeleine

Getty Images

http://www.google.com/http://pics.tech4learning.com/http://wimedialab.org/surf/images.htmhttp://www.morguefile.com/http://unsplash.com/http://picjumbo.com/http://magdeleine.co/browse/http://www.gettyimages.com/

VokiCreate

Name

Email

Password

DOB (13 Years Old)

Character Style

Customize

Voice

Background

Share

Embed, link, Post to

Social Media

Photo Story 3Create

Free Download from Microsoft

No age limitations

Import and arrange images

Add titles

Narrate

Add background music

Share

Playback as video file

Upload file to YouTube

http://www.voki.com/http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=11132

Animoto

Create

Style Themes

Must be 13 or using Animoto EDU

Add Pics & Videos

Add Text (although limited)

Free - limited to 30 secondsAnimoto EDU - 50 accounts per teacher

Share

Facebook, Twitter, email, .....

Download and Export

Options You Already Have:

PowerPoint

iMovie

Windows Live Movie Maker

https://animoto.com/intro/animoto/31?c3apiks=141035&gclid=CNbw_Oz7ksQCFZI0aQod6zIAmQ

Advice from Students

Use accurate pictures

Talk with a loud voice

Script out what you will say

Dont give away the ending

How to Make a Book Trailer

Using iMovie Sciencevideography 13:22

How to Make a Book Trailer Damon Little 5:07

PowerPoint Book Trailers Lisa Lawler 4:34

Windows Live Movie Makers 5:37

Windows Live Movie Maker Tutorial 9:02

Photo Story 3 5:51

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXW2jQZwAnghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90q9ls8R3iwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sfPHM1Ny2khttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcUApeCX4Gshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh82WqBQ_2chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6Oxf_6lmVs

Rubrics

Reading Active and Engaging wiki

Book Trailer Rubric Adapted from L. Risch, Holmen Middle School Library Media Director, 2014

http://reading-active-and-engaging.wikispaces.com/Book+Trailers+-+Assessment+Rubrichttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1mLVsvRzGEq8Lv_4V-jhfY1CXfbPfT2i8uF_U8v77EPc/edit?usp=sharing

References

All photographs were taken from sites online offering free usage of photographs.

Calkins, Lucy, Mary Ehrenworth, and Christopher Lehman. "Reading Literature Standards 2-9." Pathways to the Common Core: Accelerating Achievement. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2012. 70. Print.

Miller, Donalyn, and Jeff Anderson. The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2009. Print.

Reading Historical Texts: From Judy Lightfoot, Outline of Sam Wineburg's Central Arguments in On the Reading of Historical Texts. Available: http://home.earthlink.net/~judylightfoot/Wineburg.html. Based on On the Reading of Historical Texts: Notes on the Breach Between School and Academy, by Samuel Wineburg, American Educational Research Journal, Fall 1991, pp. 495519.

http://home.earthlink.net/~judylightfoot/Wineburg.html