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Book Review Template

This document provides guidance for writing a book review homework assignment for students in approximately 100-150 words. It suggests including the name of the book, author, illustrator, and publisher. Students should provide a brief summary of the story, what they liked and disliked about it or the characters, and anything they found interesting, funny, exciting, or scary. They can compare the story to others they have read and discuss how they felt about the ending. The document includes a sample template for presenting the homework and suggests using sentence starters and a word bank to help write the review.

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Book Review Template

This document provides guidance for writing a book review homework assignment for students in approximately 100-150 words. It suggests including the name of the book, author, illustrator, and publisher. Students should provide a brief summary of the story, what they liked and disliked about it or the characters, and anything they found interesting, funny, exciting, or scary. They can compare the story to others they have read and discuss how they felt about the ending. The document includes a sample template for presenting the homework and suggests using sentence starters and a word bank to help write the review.

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DAV PUBLIC SCHOOL

English

Book Review- A book reviews to be written, in about 100-150 words, from the
given list of books/ series(recommended reading list attached).

Some suggestions for writing the book reviews -The review could have:

The name of the book along with that of the author, the illustrator and the
publisher. The setting of the story could also be included e.g., ‘Matilda’-This story
is about a girl with an unusual power who lived in England.

Brief summary of the story

What you liked and disliked about the story, or the characters in it, giving
reasons.

Anything in the story that touched you or you found


interesting/funny/exciting/scary

.You could compare the present story with a similar story you may have read
earlier, and can comment on the way the story ended and how you felt in the end.

Presentation of homework:

To be done on A-4 sized sheets.

The sheets must be put in a folder.

The cover page of the folder to have the name, class & section of the child and
colorful illustrations drawn by the child.
Sample template.

English Diwali Holiday Homework Fiction Book Review


(choose one from the recommend list.)

Book’s title.............................................................................written
by...................................................and published in (give the
date).............................is from the ..............................genre. The book is: a one
off/part of a trilogy/series(delete appropriately.)This extraordinary and hugely
successful book (give your
opinion)........................................................................................................................
....The book opens with ............................................................The main
events/storyline of the book are.................................(start to describe them without
giving away the
ending) ........................................................................................................................
.....................................................................................................................................
.........

(Now describe the main character/protagonist eg: -Nicholas is a police detective,


he lives in the countryside with his wife and a pet dog, who help him to solve the
crimes.)........................................................................................................................
......................................................he/she is a...........................................type of
character who.......................................................................................Other
characters include (name them and say something about the main
ones.)............................................................................................................................
.........................................................Their role is one of (say what links these
characters.)...................................................................................................................
.................................................................................................................

.I really enjoyed(e.g.: the witty dialogue/historical description of the era/ how


believable the characters
were.).....................................................................................................................bec
ause .........My favorite character was a ........................................type of person.
He/she was so believable
because.......................................................................................................................
The author could have improved the book
by ...................................................................................................................I did not
enjoy the character ...................................for the
reason that ......................................................................ORThe part of the book
when .....................................................happened, was not agreeable
as ................................................................................Also,........................................
................................................................................................I would recommend
this book to anyone who likes ................................................ If you
liked .............................................you will love

You can use the following hints ;

SENTENCE STARTERS

:Not to be missed...

Side splittingly funny...

I was engrossed ...

Whooping for joy I ...

Crying into my boots I felt ...

I couldn’t put this book down.

.Nail biting tension...

Based around a true event ..

.I wish there was a film I could watch of this book...

WORD BANK

:Amazing

Terrific

Horrifying

Terrified
Astonishingly

Sensitive

Touching

Brilliantly

Fascinating

Amusing

Curious

Exciting

Thought provoking

Attention grabbing

Appealing

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