Help students learn to give a good summary of a book with this book report templates. This free printable book report form is a great resource for parents, teachers, and homeschoolers to help students work on recalling what they’ve read, remembering the important parts, while working on writign skills too. This handy reading report template is perfect for first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, and 5th graders too. Simply print free book report template and you are ready to review your latest story!
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Book Report Template
Free book report template
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Why Book Reports?
Book Report Templates
Free Book Reports
We’ve been using my in depth book report I shared last year. But I decided we need some shorter to the point book reports that my kids could easily use more often as they were shorter and to the point. I find book reports do such a good job of helping them retain what they read, process what they read, and practice writing.
This book report form is great for Kindergarten, grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, grade 4, grade 5, and grade 6 students.
Simple book report template
I’ve found that students can be intimidated by both a blank sheet of paper when asked to write a summary and by mult-page book report forms. The idea behind this printable book report template is that it is simple. THere is only 1 page with just the bare necessities to not overhwhelm students and have them dread fillign out the book report or grow to dislike reading1
Printable book report template
There are two different styles of lines in the file to accommodate both younger elementary and middle school students. Both styles of the free book report include the following:
- Child’s Name
- Date book report written
- Book Title
- Book Author
- Rating – how good does your student thing the book was on a scale of 1-5 stars
- Genre – was it a biography, mystery, science fiction, poetry, nonfiction
- Plot – what is the main gist of the story
- Setting – where did the story take place (country, city, time period)
- Favorite Character – who did your child identify with most and why
- What is your students favorite part of the story and why?
- Draw or describer your favorite scene from the book
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Free printable book report template
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Great resources!
Thank you, something to keep the kids going throughout the summer
I like the worksheet! It will help my students in organizing their reading and improve their writing skills.