Haven't tried a book tasting with your students yet? This fun reading activity is an awesome way to introduce genres in your elementary classroom or library!
A Book Tasting Event can give your students the opportunity to sample library books in a fun and festive environment!
Book Tasting Menu
Hosting a Book Tasting in your classroom is an amazing way to get your students interested in a variety of book genres.
Expand your students reading palate with a book tasting! This kit includes everything you need to host your very own book tasting. Included in this bundle are - Display menu signs, Table numbers, Plate settings and a Tasting card menu to complete the look. Students will love the chance to read new books, explore different genres and most importantly get excited about reading! *This item is not editable. All materials, descriptions and work is preset/made and cannot be changed. If you would like additional pages with different descriptions/genres, please message me for more details about a custom listing. **This is a Digital Item. No physical or tangible item will be sent to you. You will receive a PDF copy that you can download and print.
Are you ready to hook students into reading with a book-tasting? To make it easy for you to try a book tasting out in your classroom, I've created a free resource for you and will walk you through the process of hosting a book tasting step-by-step. It's much easier than you might think.
Hold a "BOOK TASTING" in your classroom and have your students choose their next novel! Media Specialists and Librarians make it an evening event for parents and children to get a taste of some new books. It also a great way to set up book clubs and have students make their next choice! In my school we do the Battle of the Books and it works great with that! Now includes 2 versions : new starbucks inspired logo and older logo...see thumbnails above! This Product Includes: book tasting foldable double-sided menu placemats reflection napkins with accountable talk stems bookmarks event signs table cards name tents large starbooks logo Check out my new Book Tasting like event for writing called Writer's Kitchen Check out my accountable talk bundle here!!! So, be the next to transform you room into a place where your students get excited about their next new book. I suggest googling book tasting for ideas about decor which most can be purchased at a dollar type store! Use it over and over again for many years. It will be one of your favorites and your students too. Parents will just eat it up! Please Follow to know when new products come out! Connect with me on Instagram @adamteachestech • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Thank you so much for taking a minute or two in your busy day to consider my product! BE SURE TO FOLLOW ME TO RECEIVE MONTHLY UPDATES OF MORE DECOR, PRODUCTS! Thx, Adam To purchase additional licenses select and purchase additional licenses at checkout or go to “my purchases”, select the item, and click “buy additional licenses”. Did you know there are TPT School Accounts? Tell your administrator and ask if your school can purchase this for your school. Check out all my Starbooks Themed Stuff... I also have a Bundle with all of my Starbooks products that just keeps growing...enjoy
A book tasting is a totally doable room transformation your students will go crazy over! I recently decked out my classroom and turned it into 'McJondle's Café' for the first time, and let me tell you - it most definitely won't be the last. My main goal was to expose my 1st graders to different types
A book tasting is a way to expose students to different genres and get them excited about reading. Everything you need is in included in my activity packet!
Haven't tried a book tasting with your students yet? This fun reading activity is an awesome way to introduce genres in your elementary classroom or library!
I have dreamed of creating a middle school poetry unit with lesson plans, tons of reading response examples of poetry analysis, along with a verse novels book club and activities component. I have spent the last month creating this complete middle school poetry reading and writing unit. I have a whole blog post about the ... Read more
Are you ready to hook students into reading with a book-tasting? To make it easy for you to try a book tasting out in your classroom, I've created a free resource for you and will walk you through the process of hosting a book tasting step-by-step. It's much easier than you might think.
Tall, Skinny, Extra Sweet with Grande Stories Books can be a treat! Just for today Sit and Sip forget your troubles and Read for a bit! BREW up some fun with this book tasting & have students explore new genres! This product includes: -two brochure options -new reads bookmarks -accent for decor -banner printables -frappuccino reflection page -two signs to display for the book tasting -four posters for decor/display I cannot EXPRESSO how much your students will love this book tasting! Help them find their favorite flavor! "DOLCE" want to join in on the fun?! STARBOOKS CAFE....Where books are the perfect BLEND! Be cure to check out the PREVIEW!
Expose students to different kinds of books and genres and get them engaged and excited about reading with a book tasting!
Book Tastings! I was seeing more and more teachers use them as a way to connect students with books they may love. I knew I wanted our students to be a part of an exciting event like this so the planning began. There was nothing out there for high school students! Since I love bringing the excitement of elementary school to high school, I knew I had to adapt. I wanted our students to experience the joy and love of reading for only that purpose. WHAT IS A BOOK TASTING?! A stack of books, a menu of the titles, and a little cafe theme to set the mood. Students simply move around to each table and sample books from each that they may be interested in reading. They can look at the covers and read the book jacket or few pages out of the book. It is meant to help them find a new book to read or a new genre to explore. PLANNING I started by reading lots of young adult blogs and top 20 lists to get my own list going of books to offer at the book tasting. I partnered with my librarian and she had EVERY book on my list. She is the best at knowing what students will like! The next thing to think about is how to group the books. A lot of book tastings I saw were done by genre. I wanted something a little less structured, so I grouped them by themes. I called them "Today's Specials" and tried to have catchy titles for each! I also wanted to transform the classroom into a little bistro so I ordered some twinkle lights, checkered tablecloths, tea lights, chef hats and aprons, and plastic silver trays. Dollar Tree never disappoints with silk flowers, vases, and ribbon to make centerpieces. I found a YouTube French bistro playlist that had the perfect cover photo and instrumental music. The teachers and I went all in with creating the Book Bistro feel! BOOK TASTING DAY I created a slide deck with all of the books that were being offered for the tasting. Each theme was a "special" and had books that went with that theme. I tried to keep it high interest and relevant for them. The slide deck included a book trailer or review for every book. I also linked to some of the blogs, Instagrammers, and YouTubers that I found so helpful for them to explore more. Books were stacked on the silver trays with "menus" and they gave Yelp reviews for each book. At each table, I also put a flip menu with each book's summary so they could read that as well. I included all these different access points to books so they could have it after the book tasting to look back on. I was able to do the book tasting with a teacher from every grade level, 9th grade to 12th grade, and can say they were all excited when they walked in and saw the room! The loved finding new books, seeing that Netflix shows they watch were actually books first, and finding other books by authors they knew. It was amazing to see these big kids having so much fun with an elementary idea! I even got a $5 tip! I hope you try this in your classroom or with your library media specialist. If you do, please feel free to make a copy of the files below to help get you started! Book Tasting Slides Book Tasting Menu Handout Book Tasting Flip Menu
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Throughout the year, our students will often get stuck in a book rut. Either they are reading the same books and authors over and over or they don't know what to read next. As teachers, we want to introduce them to new genres, authors and book series. Purposely setting aside time for students to preview
Four of our Language Arts classes participated in our first HCMS Library BOOK TASTING! Here's how it went: we se nt THIS video for t...
What better way to expand young readers’ hunger for literature than hosting a book tasting? Students will be eager to eat! (I mean read.)
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Teacher friends Desperate times call for desperate measures. A couple of weeks ago one of my students came back from the school library with a board book. Yes, a board book. And don't get me wrong here. I
There are resources for kids' book tastings, but what about the grown people? Here's a how-to for hosting a book tasting for adults at a public library.
I have dreamed of creating a middle school poetry unit with lesson plans, tons of reading response examples of poetry analysis, along with a verse novels book club and activities component. I have spent the last month creating this complete middle school poetry reading and writing unit. I have a whole blog post about the ... Read more
A perfect way for kids to nibble on a book.
For those students who do not like to read a genre out of their comfort zone, take them to a Book Tasting and sample a few genres that they may enjoy.
A perfect way for kids to nibble on a book.
Hosting a Book Bakery in our classroom was the perfect way to introduce my students to reading genres! In first grade, each student is still discovering what
A book tasting is a totally doable room transformation your students will go crazy over! I recently decked out my classroom and turned it into 'McJondle's Café' for the first time, and let me tell you - it most definitely won't be the last. My main goal was to expose my 1st graders to different types
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Are you ready to hook students into reading with a book-tasting? To make it easy for you to try a book tasting out in your classroom, I've created a free resource for you and will walk you through the process of hosting a book tasting step-by-step. It's much easier than you might think.
Video Demo: How to Host a Book Tasting Event It’s the beginning of another school year and you’re fired up. A new group of students is headed your way. You’re ready to motivate them, stir their curiosity, and entice even your most introverted students to actively participate. You have one goal: You want everyone in your care to know they're in a safe, creative place so you can help them grow. And if you teach English Language Arts, part of that job is to make sure your students grow as readers and writers. So where do you start? You start by having students take part in reading, writing and discussion activities that guarantee success. And one of the best ways I know of to get students reading, writing, and discussing in a no-fail environment is to host Book Tasting events. Book Tasting Pay Offs and Set Up Book Tastings are popular with kids and teachers. They're easy to set up. They engage everyone. And they show students that they might be in for a few surprises when they step into ELA class this year. To get started, all you need is a class set of menus, plates, and books. Then, you'll assign a task. Fiction Task Before a fiction event you might say something like, “For the next 20 minutes, you will be reading four books for five minutes each. When time is called, you'll rate each one using 1-5 stars and then jot down a reason for your rating.” What I like about this particular task is that it exposes students to several different genres (I usually include fantasy, adventure, sports fiction, mystery, and humor.), and students often get hooked on books they would never have picked up on their own. Note: If you repeat this activity several times throughout the year, this critique and rating task also serves as a handy reading wish list. Nonfiction Task Here's a sample intro script for nonfiction: “For the next 12 minutes or so, you will be given a few minutes to read as much of each of these four articles as you can. When time is called, your job will be to record one thing you remember from an article before passing it to another student." During this event (I sometimes call nonfiction sessions “Text Tastings.”), students break up into groups of four. All students will read the same set of articles. This exercise may be followed by a whole-class discussion about the takeaways they recorded -- or students may share which facts were directly quoted, paraphrased, or summarized. Impromptu Tastings Book Tastings may also be conducted using a single book. Some of my best scavenger-hunt-style Book Tastings have been conducted right after a mini-lesson. I simply ask students to open their books and tag parts of the text which demonstrate the skill covered in the lesson. Some of these skills include: grammar techniques, supporting evidence, sentence structure, and author’s craft. I love to teach a skill and then have students look for examples of it in books they’ve selected themselves. Follow Up Sometimes, I collect student responses and use them as exit tickets or as assessment pieces. But most of the time, I just have students keep the menu covers so they can add inserts for future Book and Text Tastings. That way, students are able to use the completed inserts throughout the year as reference tools or as writing springboards. I call the Book Tasting event one of my Magic Lessons because this simple strategy never fails to surprise and delight students year after year. Book Tasting Menus are available here. Next blog post in this active engagement series: How to Write a Scary Story Readers Will Love A special thanks to ELA Buffet and Desktop Learning Adventure for hosting this blog hop event. That's it for now, so until next time…stay committed…teach with passion…and inspire students with who you are. An InLinkz Link-up
Are you ready to host a book tasting? Find out how you can introduce a fun new way to get the kids excited about books!
When I saw Joanne Miller's resource "Book Tasting: Introduce Your Students to New Books" resource I just knew I needed to have this resource. I'm always looking for ways to engage my first graders in reading, especially those more-reluctant readers. The resource is geared for second grade all the way up to eighth so I was a bit worried it wouldn't work for my younger readers, but it went great! Using the included signs in the resource, I created excitement by posting signs up on the wall for the book tasting the day prior. Of course, the kiddos were dying to know what it was and what a book tasting is..... but I wouldn't tell. The set up only took me 20 minutes. I shut the lights off, covered the tables with plastic table cloths, tea lights, plastic trays, table number signs and place settings. I bought the table cloths, tea lights and trays at the dollar store. Café music played in the background via the links Joanne had within the resource. They were great! I even plan on using them again during quiet times in the classroom. Since I have 5 tables in my classroom, I had 5 genres to introduce. Therefore, I wanted to start off by assigning students to 5 tables. After that, they were free to move about tables as they wished. Using the included reservation list, I wrote student names and the table names I was starting them off at. I used a classroom desk to hold the reservation list and extra menus. Each table was assigned a reading genre. I made posters for each reading genre. You can see them at each table. They are available for FREE in my store. You can grab them HERE. Also, at each table are trays of books (that match the genre), place settings for each student, a reflection napkin for each student, 2 tea lights, and a table number sign. Since I am currently using my clear plastic frames to hold my flexible seating poster, I couldn't use them for these reading genre poster. Instead, I glued the posters on 12x18 construction paper and stood it on end. It worked great! I was pleased to see that even the boys in the class enjoyed the fairy tale genre books. I was able to get 2 tablecloths out of 1 package by cutting the tablecloth to fit the table. I also tried to include books at various reading levels to accommodate all readers. Joanne of Head Over Heels for Teaching was kind enough to provide a scaled down version of the reflection and book review for me to use with my younger students that worked out really well. The visuals were very helpful for my younger readers. My high ability readers were able to use the book review that was included in the resource with ease. Here's some examples of the great work my students did: These are their reflections on the book tasting in general: Aren't they cute?!! Here are some book reviews: The book tasting lasted about an hour with my first graders and I will definitely do it again. They really enjoyed it. So...are you ready to put your apron on and give it a try? Pin for Later:
Starbooks Cafe Book tasting menu. Have your students "Taste" new books and record their thoughts and reflect on their reading using this easy menu! Just print back to back (second sheet has to be upside down when copied) and fold!
A book tasting is a totally doable room transformation your students will go crazy over! I recently decked out my classroom and turned it into 'McJondle's Café' for the first time, and let me tell you - it most definitely won't be the last. My main goal was to expose my 1st graders to different types
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Book Tasting: Lots of my projects revolve around mathematics, but as an elementary teacher, we have many skill sets, language arts being one of them. It's always a struggle to get some students interested in reading a book and Book Tasting is an idea that's been …
January is rolling along and my kids (both my school and actual kids) are finally readjusted to our routine after winter break. While in real life, I find January-March the three most difficult months to
A book tasting is a totally doable room transformation your students will go crazy over! I recently decked out my classroom and turned it into 'McJondle's Café' for the first time, and let me tell you - it most definitely won't be the last. My main goal was to expose my 1st graders to different types
Hungry for a good read? A complete unit to motivate and engage your students in reading! Students will “sample” or “taste test” books. What is included: Directions Photos Menus Placemats Bookmarks Table signs Genre signs How to Pick a Good Book signs Book Worm Reflections Book Worm awards Invitations Signs and Posters And EDITABLE!!! Check out the preview for more details. This was so much fun to do with my class of 3rd graders! It can be adapted for all grade levels. Enjoy!
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A Book Tasting Event can give your students the opportunity to sample library books in a fun and festive environment!
The Reading Restaurant was open this week and it was a hit! I served up some fabulous books and my first graders were totally engaged. If you haven’t tried a book tasting yet, I highly recommend you give it a try! It’s easy to do and an inexpensive room transformation. All you need is great ... Read More about Hosting a Reading Restaurant
Book Tasting for your classroom! Learn how to run your own book tasting and get students engaged in reading. Includes tips on set up and how to run book tasting. Students will have opportunities to sample different genres and authors. They will take notes and refer back to their favorites when choosing a novel for independent reading. Sign up to get free book tasting resources: includes 13 trifolds and a placemat.
