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Reading Rainbow Book Review

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Students watch a "Reading Rainbow" video including the short book reviews that are always shown during each video. They read a book fo their choice and do an oral book report similar to those from Reading Rainbow.

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book report, book review, english language arts
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1st - 4th
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English Language Arts
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