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Book trailer learning activities

Learning type: Classroom activity
Category: Creative writing, Digital and multimedia
Programme: Reading Schools
Language: English
Genre: Film, Technology
Age group: 12-14, 15-18

Book trailers are a great way to support the building of a reading culture in your school and engage pupils with reading in a digital and fun way. Booktrailers are just like movie trailers, giving a ‘taster’ of a book for its potential audience, designed to leave them wanting to read the book.

This resource offers activities and advice for planning and creating a book trailer. The resource inlcudes: