How It Works
It's pretty simple. Your kid read a book. You want to help your kid without having to read the book. You want the book report experience to be low stress for you and for your kid. Below you will find the steps in more detail or check out a sample guide here. Or go directly to the BookReport Guides to find your kid's book title.
Your Child Reads The Book
This is definitely the first step, everyone! Please be clear that we are not providing some elementary school version of a literature guide a la Cliff Notes or Spark Notes. You will not find detailed chapter summaries or already completed story element analysis in your BookReport Guide. There is a reason your kid read this book and really should read it and many more too. It is also WHY teachers across America require so many book reports or other literature response projects...here's why, if you are curious to know more. However, it is still possible to reduce the stress of the reading response assignment so head for the next step!
You Buy and Download the BookReport Guide for that Book
Your book title guides are here. Simply find your kid's book, click on the buy now button, then click on the download link on the page provided right after your purchase or on the link provided in the email you will also receive. All BookReport Guides are $5.00. Yeah. We know. Go ahead, tell a friend about us. But we believe you shouldn't have to pay more for the book report help than you do for the book!
Review Your Child's Assignment
Book report and book review assignments can have a wide variety of expression and requirements. Be sure to understand what is being asked of your child. However, any literature response project requires your child to understand the essential story structure, story elements, and unique properties of the book they read. Therefore, you will definitely be able to provide book report help using any Guide here...but it is good to keep the amount of work for you and your kid down to just that which is required and so don't try to answer all of the questions or statements provided in the Guide. While we are for overly-involved literary analysis...we are also all about getting the job done. With as little stress as possible.
Select and Ask Your Child the Relevant Questions from the BookReport Guide
Our assumption is that you have the book in front of you. And your kid. And that your kid truly has read the book. And paper and pencil or computer and printer. And the accompanying BookReport Guide, purchased here. The BookReport Guides are 4-7 page layouts designed to make you an "instant expert". They are crafted to help a parent or other adult help their kid complete a book report or book review without having to read the book. They are NOT full literature or study guides a la Cliff Notes or Masterplots or ad nauseum. They are, frankly, cheat sheets for parents. Because there just aren't enough cheat sheets for parents in this world. And your kid had to read the new stuff. You know, the books published after you finished school. Click here to see a sample Book Report Guide
Your Child Writes an Awesome Book Report or Book Review
You in the meantime are free to do the funky chicken dance, have a nice cup of tea, or sing at the top of your lungs as you move onto the next item of your never-ending parental to-do list. Or any combo thereof. It is probably of usefulness though for you to run your eye over the finished masterpiece for typos, awkward sentences, incomplete thoughts, and whether all the requirements of the assignments have been satisfied.