WAYS TO REPORT ON A BOOK FOR READING CLASS

All written reports should be a page long.

All artwork should be completed in color.

All reports should be your best work!

All reports will be graded using the rubric(s) you have seen.

1. Give a written synopsis.

2. Write about the most interesting part of the book.

3. Write about the most important part of the book.

4. Describe what you liked and/or disliked about the characters in the book.

5. Demonstrate in writing or in a poster something you learned. (You must buy the poster board.)

6. Make a peep box of the important parts in your book.

7. Design a book jacket with an inside summary.

8. Build a scale model of an important object in the book.

9. Create and write another ending for the book.

10. Make a “picture book” of the most important part of the book.

11. Paint a mural of the story.

12. Do a watercolor picture based on an important part of the book.

13. Draw or paint the characters from the book.

14. Compare this book with another you have read on a similar subject. (I have a form.)

15. Produce a “movie” of the book.

16. Make a collage based on the book.

17. Put together a three-dimensional scene about the book.

18. Devise a poster to “advertise” the book. (You must buy the poster board.)

19. Use a map to show routes traveled by the characters.

20. Draw a map showing where the story took place.

21. Construct a wire mobile to illustrate your book.

22. Conduct a scientific experiment associated with your reading.

23. Make a diorama.

24. Do soap or balsa carving.

25. Design and make stand-up characters.

26. Compose a poem or song about the story.

27. Send a letter to a friend to spread the good word about the book. (I have a form.)

28. Write a letter to one of the characters. (You may use the form for this, too.)

29. Give an account of what you would have done had you been one of the characters in the same situation.

30. Make up a conversation between two characters in your story.

31. Imagine and write a conversation between yourself and a character in the book.

32. Draw a picture of the ending of you book and think of a title for the picture.

33. Choose two characters and illustrate a meeting between them.

34. Make up a limerick or riddle about the story.

35. Prepare a story sequence web with illustrations.

36. Prepare newspaper articles about the characters’ activities. Include headlines and so on.

37. Write how you would have acted differently in the book if you were the main character.

38. Write the story autobiographically, for the point of view of the main character.

39. Use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the main character with yourself. (I have a form.)

40. Use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the main character to someone you know. (I have a form.)

41. Use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the main character to someone famous. (I have a form.)

42. Do you have a different idea? Talk to me about it!