Make several sketches of some of the scenes in the book and label them.
Imagine that you are the author of the book you just read. Suddenly the book becomes a book best seller. Write a letter to a movie producer trying to get that person interested in making your book a movie.
Write a book review as it would be done for a newspaper (Be sure you read a few before writing your own.)
Construct a diorama (three-dimensional scene which includes models of people, buildings, plants, and animals) of one of the main events of the book. Include a written description of the scene.
Write a letter (4 paragraphs minimum to the main character of your book asking questions, protesting a situation, and or making a complaint and/or a suggestion. This must be done in the correct letter format.
If the story of your book takes place in another country, prepare a travel brochure using pictures you have found or drawn.
Write a FULL (physical, emotional, relational) description of three of the characters in the book. Draw a portrait to accompany each description (optional)
After reading a book of history or historical fiction, make an illustrated timeline showing events of the story and draw a map showing the location(s) where the story took place.
Do a collage/poster showing pictures or 3-D items that related to the book, and then write a sentence or two beside each one to show its significance.
Make a book jacket for the book or story.
Draw a comic strip of your favorite scene.
Make a model of something in the story.
Use magazine photos to make a collage about the story.
Make a mobile about the story.
Make a mini-book about the story.
Write a different beginning or ending to the story and explain why you changed it.
Write a letter to a character in the book.
Write a letter to the author of the book.
Compare and contrast two characters in the story.
Make a timeline of all the events in the book.
Choose 5 "artifacts" from the book that best illustrate the happenings and meanings of the story. Tell why you chose each one.
Make a vocabulary list of words that are new to you. You must have at least 25 words with the definitions.
Write a feature article (with a headline) that tells the story of the book as it might be found on the front page of a newspaper in the the town where the story takes place
Make a cut out of one of the characters and write about them in the parts.
Make a doll of one of the characters.
Make a flow chart of all the events in the book.
Make a map of where the events in the book take place
Make a list of character traits each person has and how does that affect their decisions.
Make a poster advertising your book so someone else will want to read it.
Choose 5 quotes from 5 characters. Write why it would or wouldn't be a good motto by which to live your life.
Retell part of the story from a different point of view
Make a Venn diagram on the ways you are like and unlike one of the characters in your story.
Write about the character's life twenty years from now.
Send a postcard from one of the characters. Draw a picture on one side, write the message on the other. (Use two index cards so that it can be displayed)
Make a Venn diagram comparing your environment to the setting in the book.
Draw a picture of the setting of the climax. Why did the author choose to have the action take place there?
Make a travel brochure advertising the setting of the story.
Choose three different conflicts that take place in the story and give the solutions. Is there one that you had been handled differently?
Outline the story, then use the outline to expand into paragraphs.
Make several sketches of some of the scenes in the book and label them.
Choose a job for one of the characters in the book and write a letter of recommendation and application. (Feel free to make up a job)
Be a TV or radio reporter, and give a report of a scene from the book as if it is happening "live". (Video)
Re-enact a scene from the book. (Video)
Write a multiple choice quiz of the book with 2 questions from each chapter.
Nominate one of the characters for an office in local, state or national government. Which office should they run for? What are the qualities that would make them good for that office?
Write and perform an original song that tells the story of the book.
Write an original poem..
Write an official critic of the book and rate it using the 5 star system.
Conduct and interview with one of the characters. 1 person will be the interviewer and 1 person will pretend to be a character from the book. (Video)
Make a character tree. Put the main character in the middle and show how the other characters are related to the main character as well as to one another.