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Book Bentos


      I stumbled upon book bentos last week, and fell in love with the concept  about talking about a book.  I found a few different ways to create them, but there is no set rules regarding what applications or technology to use to create them.  I loved the idea of finding 5 -8 things that represent the book.  Here are my two creations based on the literature I found.  I created the original image in Google Draw then downloaded it as a PNG.  The second image I created in slides another teacher shared - unfortunately I don't remember who, but they created an amazing template.


This image I will use for a social media post and in Schoology to describe what a Book Bento is.  Depending on the size and quality of the image, the text can be difficult to read, that is why I created the slide.

I really enjoyed making the book bento, and I think students will too.

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