Book Trailers for “Holes”

I recently had the pleasure of co-teaching with Brooke Davis at Pinchbeck Elementary. Mrs. Davis’ 5th graders have been doing a novel study on the book “Holes” and wanted to do a culminating activity that was a bit different. During our planning meeting we decided to have the students make book trailers to get other students interested in reading “Holes”.

The students began by planning out what they wanted to show in the movie. They wanted to summarize the important parts but didn’t want to give too much away. Once the students planned, they then recorded clips using Dell Webcam Central on the laptops.

After all the clips were recorded Mrs. Davis’ 5th graders then began working in Windows Movie Maker to put it all together. The future filmmakers imported all of the clips added transitions some even added music to make the trailer intresting.

The trailers were then attached to QR codes. The hope is that the QR codes will be placed in the library, so other students can scan the code with their iPad and view the trailer.

It’s wonderful that the students enjoyed this book so much they wanted other students to read this book as well. They did such a great job on these trailers. I can’t be more proud of them. Check out one of their awesome trailers below.

Brooke, Aidan, Libbie Book Trailers from Brooke Davis on Vimeo.