Book report alternatives

Book reports don't need to be painfully boring. In fact, they can be a ton of fun! Here are 10 creative book report ideas to use in your classroom.

Classroom Tested Resources: Ten Alternative Book Report Ideas

Alternative Book Report - Book Review Here's a sample of a book review I wrote for my book club in my Reading Journal on Gone by Michael Grant using an amazing template from the blog Books Babies and Bows. It was developed for younger students to write book reviews. I love this quote from the author Jenny H: "What do you do when you cannot find what you want? Create it." She created the template for her second grader when she couldn't find any book review forms that were appropriate for…

Book reports and summaries are a thing of the past. Engage your middle and high school students with five book report alternatives that will leave them asking for more and, most importantly, building vital reading and analysis skills along the way. 1. Assign one pagers at the end of a novel. One pagers are engaging, allow for creativity, and lead to higher level thinking and analysis. Assigning a one pager is easy and works for any novel. Follow these simple guidelines: • Make it standards…

Are you looking for an easy and engaging alternative to a book report? This Book in a Bag Project is perfect! Let students shine with this creative project!

Not everyone loves book reports as much as I do, so I created this list of book report alternatives to help homeschooling moms and classroom teachers alike come up with their own ideas for alternatives to the written book report. If you have other ideas please share them with me in the comments! Book Report Alternatives […]

Book Report Idea: It's called Book in a Bag- Students decorate a paper bag with a scene from the book and fill the bag with 5 items that represent something from the book! Fabulous way to do a book report!

Matchbook chapter summaries super simple and fun project that you can have your students complete during your next novel study.

Engage your students in reading response activities with this fun Cereal Box Book Reports activity. Your students will "eat up" this activity!

Are you looking for an easy and engaging alternative to a book report? This Book in a Bag Project is perfect! Let students shine with this creative project!