From our whole group book review mini-lessons and from our independent reading immersion and close study of chosen book reviews, we've created this noticings chart of this genre.
In our first grade unit of study focusing on reviews, we noticed that most reviews have these components...
*Basic Information
*A Rating System
*A Detailed Description that included Author's Opinion
*Illustrations/Photographs/ Visual Aid Depicting object of review
Below is a checklist that each group used to create thier book of reviews. Each group chose either books, restaurants, movies, products, or places to review.
Review Book Checklist
Re-Read Your Review Group Book.
Check to see if it includes…
Front Cover (title, picture, all authors’ name)
Each author has their own review page that matches the groups review topic.
Each page has a review with sentences giving the author’s description and opinion of the item they are reviewing (restaurant, destination, book, or product purchased).
Each page has a rating system to show the author’s opinion about the item being reviewed.
Each page has colorful illustrations and/or fonts used to make the text attractive.
Each page has been checked for spelling.
Cathy Rode's Noticing Chart for CheapTickets.com
I am going to use this as a model of how a person creates a review after they have used a product. I will then let them read other reviews online for bookmarked sites that they can create their own noticing chart and then create a review.
-I read the reviews that others left for the same place
-I looked at all the online travel sites to compare and contrast
-I looked at maps to find the "just-right" location for a family
-took several days of research
-look for places that match your needs
-used a 5 star rating
-used personal knowledge to write the review
-user-friendly
-affordable prices in nice hotels
Noticings Chart for Dine.com
Online Review
-uses 5 star rating (can have half a star for review)
-place on website where you can build your own restaurant review if not listed
-has listed top reviewers (thorough reviews from these people)
online review for dine.com
for Cammie Price
Kimberly Barnette: Noticings Chart for Metacritics (online media review)
Noticings:
I liked this website because it is very informative. I like that it shows you both what real people think and what the "important" people think about it. It was very easy to work through and you can search for anything as well as look at the top 10 picks.
Amber McDonald
Noticings Chart for Science Magazine (Carolina Biological)
Noticings:
~Each new section has a review from a customer
~Each review has a five star system
~Each review has a customer comment, where they are located and what type of educator they are
This was appealing to me as a classroom teacher because I am able to see what others think of a product before I consider making a purchase. I am a science person and love to have things in my class, but it is always nice to have someone say Yay or Nay to a product before I make a purchase!
Noticings for Spaghetti Book Club by Bonnie Cumbo
Commonsense.org by Amber Pitts
I choose the website common sense.org to use as a mentor for my book review. Here are some things I noticed…
Noticings Chart for Alan Brown.com by Lindsay Blanton
Alan Brown.com is a website for book information and book reviews.
Noticings - author created the website for students to have easy access to book reviews
user-friendly
great links for other information
side tabs for writing tips and reading information
examples of related webistes
Author created and maintains website for kids to use - age appropriate (website says 8-14 years of age)
scholastic.com by Kim Sutherland
I selected scholastic.com and this is what I noticed.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10011984-last_song/
Rotten Tomatoes Recommended By: April Camp
Movie trailers and reviews of new and upcoming movies. Here you can find out about new movies to see if they were able to live up to the tomatoerator. It is really a fun site and very interactive and always you to give your thoughts about the movies with ease.
It is easy to use and navigate through, a variety of views are expressed to let you see all points of view, eye catching site and gives trailers or short clips from the movie to let you preview before you pay a fortune to go and see it, lets you find movie times and locations. This site is an all in one site giving more than just reviews.
Movie Review by Kimberly Trott
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/
The Chicago Sun Times movie review section by Roger Ebert is the best movie review site that I have seen. I use it to check out a movie before I spend $8:50 on a ticket. There is a star review rating for the quality of the movie. What I like best is the detailed description of the movie and Mr. Eberts personal remarks about the movies quality. There is a thumbs up or down section. There are reviews of old movies and little discussion pieces on various movie stars.
Restaurant Review by Renee Phillips
Metromix.com
I used a review on Trio Brick oven Pizza in Greenville SC.
Noticing Chart for Unit of Study with 5th grade
Noticing Chart
Book Review Unit of Study by kim Wells
CLASS BOOK REVIEW NOTICINGS CHART FOR OH, YUCK! BOOK REVIEW
BOOK REVIEW NOTICINGS CHART
Mentor text for whole class instruction was a review of Oh Yuck! The
Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty by Joy Masoff
1. Startling fact-that makes the reader want to find the book immediately and read it.
2. Opinion of the content
3. Explains why he likes it
4. Uses quotes from the book -
5. Tone of review is obviously enthusiastic(however, depends on if reviewer LIKES the book)
6. Interesting punctuation, quotations marks”“, dashes--, exclamation points! ParenthesisO,
7. Invented language (i.e. “grossities”)
8. Use of slang (blow chunks)
9. Awareness of audience by using terms kids know (see #8)
10. Hyphenated words
11. Rating system
12. Lists all the things in favor
13. Lists a couple of things he would have done differently
14. Talks about text features