150 Book Report Alternatives

Audio:

• Live:

  • Book Discussion

  • Group Presentation

  • Individual Oral Report

  • Literature Circle

  • Panel Discussion

• Recorded:

  • CD Soundtrack

  • Dialogue Recording

  • Event, Character or Scene Recording

  • Podcast

  • Radio Play

Visually Creative:

• Physical:

  • Build a Relief Map of the Setting

• Diorama:

  • Multimedia Materials

  • Paper Mache

  • Plaster or Play Dough

• Photo Album

• Poster Board

• Recipe Book

• Scale Model of a Building or Object

• Scrapbook or a Memory Box

• Tri-fold Display

Drawings:

• Book Jacket

• Book Illustrations

• Bulletin Board Display

• Cartoon Strip or Graphic ‘Novel’

• Character Poster

• Children’s Picture Book

• Collage for a Theme or Character

• Design Quilt Squares

• Flip Book

• Important Object Drawing

• Map of the Setting

• Magazine Cover or Full-Pa

  ge Ad

• Mural

• Portrait of a Character

• Poster Board

• Scale Drawings of a Room or Scene

• Scene Drawing (with a caption)

• Storyboard (for a filmstrip)

• T-Shirt Design

• Trading Cards

• Travel Brochure

Chart/Organizer:

• Cause and Effect Chart

• Flow Chart

• Graphical Outline

• Mind Map of the Author’s Accomplishments

• Mind Map of the Plot Chart

• Timeline

• Top Ten List

• Venn Diagram

• Wordle

Dramatically Creative:

• Act a Scene as a Character

• Character Monologue

• Dramatic Reading

• Dramatic Scene

• Group Performance

• Mock Trial

• Pantomime of a Scene

• Puppet Show

• Role Play as the Book’s Author

• Scene Tableaux

Game:

• Bingo

• Charades

• Concentration

• Crossword

• Board Game

• Jeopardy

• Pictionary

• Scavenger Hunt

• Word Search

Video:

• Live News Report

• Movie or Book Trailer

• PowerPoint Presentation

• Talk Show Appearance

• TV Commercial

• TV Episode

• Video Editorial

World Connections:

• Cook Food from the Story

• Festival surrounding a Book: name, date, location, questions, music, food, games, clothing, etc.

Writing:

• Poetry:

  • Acrostic

  • Ballad

  • Found Poem

  • Limerick

  • Retell Story

• Song:

  • Rap

  • Theme

  • Sonnet

• Prose:

  • Blog or Blog Entry

  • Character Sketch

  • Children’s Story Retelling

• Comparison:

  • Another Book

  • Different Story Motifs

  • Different Story Versions

  • Lifestyles in the Story with Current Life

  • with the Film Version

• Create a Sales Pitch for the Book

• Create a Test

• Different or Extended Beginning

• Different or Extended Ending

• Dossier on a Character

• Editorial

• Fairy Tale about a Novel Event

• Human Interest Story

• Journal Entries by Chapter or Section

• Legend, Fable or Myth

• Letter:

  • to a Character

  • to the Author

• Magazine Article

• News Article or Front Page

• Parody

• Persuasive Paragraph

• Publish a Yearbook for the Characters and Events in a Story

• Radio Play

• Rationale for a Favourite Passage

• Recipe

• Retell a Related Personal Experience

• Review

• Rewrite Story from an Alternate Point of View

• Short Play

• Summary

• TV Episode Script

• Twitter Feed Story Retell

Research Report:

• Author

• Character

• Issue

• Real Person

• Related History

• Video Game Proposal

Vocabulary: