Grade Level: 1^St

Subject: Language Arts

Topic: Author Study on Ezra Jack Keats

Submitted by: Anne Wright

Performance Task - GRASPS

Goal- You will create a book jacket that includes the most important points of a Keats book as well as information on Ezra Jack Keats.

Role- You are an advertiser for a book company and you have been assigned a book for which you must create a book jacket.

Audience- Children like you who read picture books!

Situation- You have been hired to design the book jacket for your favorite Ezra Jack Keats book. This is the job of a lifetime and you are so excited to show the word what a great author Keats is.

Product/Performance- You will look at book jackets of fiction stories that you love. While you are looking you will figure out what about those covers made you want to read them. After you have figured out what makes a good book cover you will create your own. Your cover must include a front picture that shows that you understand the main idea of the story. The back cover must include a “hook” that is a short description of the important story elements.

Standard/Criteria for Success

Book Jacket Report : Ezra Jack Keats

CATEGORY	4	3	2	1	Points Earned
Front Cover	Includes an illustration, title of the book, and author's name. Font and colors fit the emotional content of the book. The graphic illustrates a main theme of the book.	Includes an illustration, title of the book, and author's name. The graphic illustrates a main theme of the book.	Includes an illustration, title of the book, and author's name.	Does not include illustration, title, AND/OR author's name.
Inside Right (back) Flap	Includes a small photograph or drawing of the author, the author's name and a biography that includes some personal facts and the name of at least one other book written by the author.	Includes the author's name and a biography that includes some personal facts and the name of at least one other book written by the author.	Includes the author's name and a biography that includes some personal facts about the author.	Author's name AND/OR bibliography is missing.
Inside Left (front) Flap	Summary is well-written and includes all aspects of the story free of punctuation or grammar mistakes.	Summary includes all aspects of the story, but at least one punctuation or grammar mistake.	Includes a description of some of the things that happened in the story. lt appears the student read most of the book, but might not understand it.	Summary is too vague. Does not appear the student read or understood the book.
Back Cover	Includes a hook to make the reader want to read the book and a picture of all the main characters.	Includes a hook to make the reader want to read the book and a picture of some of the main characters.	Includes a picture and/or no hook.	Does not include a picture or a hook.