Book Reports or Book Reviews?

Do you have your students write book reports of the titles they read? Or could they more appropriately be called book reviews? What’s the difference between the two? This Mensa for Kids site takes an in-depth look at book review writing—including ways for students to distinguish between reports and reviews. Here’s an example of a piece written by 10-year-old Angelica F. about my title Runt—why not challenge your students to decide if it’s a “report” or a “review” before trying to write reviews of titles they’ve recently read?