10 Performance-Based Projects for the Language Arts Classroom: Grades 3-5

I love the way this book is laid out with 10 different projects with ready examples or can be adapted for specific classroom use. Most project timelines are 2-3 weeks. I'm already using the first project in my classroom. My goal is to be able to use one each quarter.
The book also offers lessons to teach the steps for each project, reproducible sheets for student planning, peer review forms, and a final rubric. There are resources as needed in each section.
Overall, I feel that this is a valuable resource in the 3-5+ language arts classroom. Highly recommended!

This is a decent primer for beginning teachers - those who haven't yet collected rubrics, project guides, and some basic mini-lessons into their arsenal. It includes these materials for ten of the most common performance tasks.
I wish it had provided more on less common performance task delivery systems, but I understand at that point they would be alienating certain readers (for example, any tech based performance tasks would be lost on my school since our computers are still XP and over half our students have no Internet at home).

I really love the layout/organization of this reference. Even though I teach middle school, I plan on adapting some of these ideas for older students. The rubrics are very well written. These are some great ideas for students to do more critical thinking and hands-on learning!

I received this book via Early Reviewers. I am a 5th grade literacy teacher and was excited to get this book. It has great lessons that are easy to read and resources that you can use, especially in the research area of literacy. I will be using some of these lessons this year!

This book is fabulous! I am a special educator and can see how this can be used to differentiate instruction and adjust to other grade levels as well. The book contains everything you need to conduct project-based learning in the classroom. The information is very clear and concise. The organization is neat and free of distracting elements sometimes found in educational materials.

Performance-based/project-based activities prepare students for the thinking required in the real world.Ten doable projects are included in this book. These projects involve oral presentations (book talks, debate/political speech, group discussion, role-playing, interview), exhibition, written expression (essay, research, journal/log) and portfolio. The creativity of many of the projects in each of these areas is amazing! Examples of this creativity include creating a political party, staging a mystery, and studying cemetary headstones. Lesson outlines, handouts, peer reviews, and assessment rubrics are included, as is an alignment of each project to the Common Core State Standards.

I like the options in this book. The projects could easily be adapted for 6/7 grades as well.