Many
Ways To Share A Book
Thanks Walt
1.
Write about it to
a friend.
2. Make a map of where it takes
place.
3. Make a story map of its main events.
4. Create a crossword puzzle, using the setting and
plot.
5. Tell why it would or wouldn’t make a great
movie.
6. Explain its funniest or most exciting part.
7. Make a poster about it.
8. Pick 5 to 10 adjectives that describe it and tell
why.
9. Describe an incident from it as if you were a reporter on the
scene.
10. Using magazine pictures, make a collage of an idea or scene from
the book.
11. Make up a limerick or haiku about
it.
12. Illustrate it with objects or photos.
13. Compare it with the movie or TV
version.
14. Make a time-line of its events.
15. Create a new ending for it.
16. Make a mosaic to illustrate one of its settings or events
17. Make up a lost and found ad for something in
it.
18. Rewrite one of its incidents for a younger
reader.
19. Use sketches or photos to recreate one of its action
sequences.
20. The U.S. President has learned that you’ve read this book
and
wants to know one thing a main character
discovered about life that you
think all Americans should know. What would you tell
him? Why?
21. Describe the main character in 64
words.
22. Choose a character you’d like to have as a friend. Tell
why.
23. Make believe you were one of the minor characters. How would you
describe the main character?
24.
Role play one of the characters
25.
Plan an appropriate meal for a main character.
26.
Do a cartoon strip based on a character.
27.
Write a few paragraphs in a diary as if you were a character.
28.
Write a poem about a character.
29.
Design costumes for some of the characters. Explain why each
is appropriate.
30.
Tell why one of the characters should have a different role.
31.
Write a biography of one of the
characters.
32.
Create paper dolls of the main
characters.
33.
Make a list of facts you learned from it.
34.
Tell what the book would say about itself if it could
talk.
35.
Pick a book you think each of the main characters would enjoy
reading. Tell why.
36.
Tell what your home would be like if it belonged to one of the main
characters.
37.
Write an interview between a character and the author, or between
two characters.
38.
Guess what would have happened if a character had made an important
decision differently.
39.
Persuade an audience to read (or not read) it.
40.
Tell why you would (or wouldn’t) recommend it to your
principal, a parent, or another student.
41.
List its five most interesting or critical sentences.Tell
why.
42.
Use its theme or setting to create a postcard or greeting
card.
43.
Compare it to another book the author has written. Describe
common
elements, style, theme, and so forth.
44.
Write a song about it.
45.
Demonstrate something you learned from it.
46.
Prepare a list of its most unusual, difficult, or exciting
words. Explain why you chose them.
47.
Use its title and theme to write your own
story.
48.
For stories that took place in another time, tell how one of the
characters would act today, or would respond to a
present day
situation.
49.
Pretend to be the book and tell what you hold within
you.
50.
Compare it w ith a book of
similar
theme.
51. Prepare a
book
jacket for it.
52. Become the author and tell why you wrote this
book.
53. Write interview questions to the
author.
54. Write a letter of appreciation to the
author.
55. Write suggestions for improvement
to the
author.
56. Make a Venn diagram comparing two
characters.
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