Reading Project Ideas

 

 

Art

• Art log (choose six quotations from your book that interest you and illustrate them literally or symbolically, explaining the reason for each choice)
• Board game
• Caricature log (contains a caricature of the protagonist, antagonist, and two supporting or minor characters)
• Collage
• Comic Strip (minimum of 16 frames)
• Map
• Bulletin Board
• Picture Book (minimum 36 pages, the standard for a picture book)
• Annotated timeline
• Travel Brochure

 

Media/Performance

• Book talk
• Commercial
• Dramatization
• Eulogy
• Interview
• Monologue
• Newscast
• Pantomime
• Puppet Show
• Reader's Theater
• Siskel and Ebert
• Song
• Speech
• Storytelling
• Tableau (take 5 scenes from the book and freeze in character and then describe each character0
• Trial

 

Writing

• Biography
• Compare and contrast books
• Diary, encompassing the entire book
• "Do's and taboos" for traveling in setting
• Glossary (compile a glossary of slang, dialect, or specialized vocabulary, minimum of 25 words)
• Series of letters from a character (minimum 5)
• Library recommendation
• New ending (written in the same style)
• Newspaper
• Poem Anthology (minimum of 5 poems - no haikus)
• Research report (topic related to book)
• Rewrite scene from the book
• Sequel