Book Tweets

Mr. Acthziger's 9th-grade classes created book tweets this week with library student teacher, Mrs. Hirsch. A book tweet is a short book summary or review written in tweet form. Students used hashtags to emphasize key phrases that hint at the story, and were required to include the book title and author’s name. It was a challenge to create the tweet in 280 characters or less, but Mrs. Hirsch provided the students with some great tips listed below.

Instructions were given to students

Keep it short:

• Avoid long words or extra words.
• Avoid unnecessary qualifiers.
• Ex: “really”, “basically”, “very”
• Use “&” instead of “and”.
• Replace a phrase with a word.
  Ex: “In the event that” can be replaced with “if”
• Use social media common abbreviations
  Ex: SMH (Shake My Head), IRL (In Real Life)
• Combine words to create a hashtag.
  Ex: #familysecret, #bookswithaconscience

Example from student teacher

Here are a few of the student's final products.