Book Reports with Glogster!!

Incorporating literature into a young mind is so essential to the mental and spiritual growth of a student. Students can never have enough reading time, but often it is difficult for us, as Educators, to have students show us what they’ve learned through the text that they explore. This is why I believe that students should have some creative freedom in creating their very own storyboards using the program Glogster. Glogster is an online educational tool that is used to create different storyboards or posters for different subjects and or criteria. Allowing students to use a different media to express what they’ve learned is an amazing tool. 

Students can show comprehension of content in a visual way. Below is a sample I created using Glogster to show how a student could create a book report through text, images, and other resources in place of writing an essay. The sample below is a book report on the novel Divergent by Veronica Roth. Students needed to identify the following: Setting, 2 Plots, Main Characters, Conflict, and Theme. 

I really enjoyed using this program!! I think it is fun, you can really let students get wild and creative with it to show what they've learned. I feel that this tool is simple enough to use in younger grades and can be assigned at at difficult level for the older grades. Even if you don't use this program often, students will still see it as a resource that they, themselves, could use in other subject for projects and other homework. 

This site gives you a free 30 day trial but I think in order to utilize all of its resources you do need to pay a fee of $25 for the Educational option.