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Ways to Share a Book

Using the story:

1. Dramatize an incident from it.
2. Make a map of where it takes place.
3. Make a story map of its main events on poster board with pictures.
4. Create a crossword puzzle, using its setting and plot.
5. Create a scroll or handrolled movie to illustrate it.
6. Make a poster about it.
7. Describe an incident from it as though you were an on-the-scene TV reporter.
8. Make a model of something in it: a house, a log cabin, a rocket.
9. Draw objects from it and make them into a mobile.
10. Choose an idea or scene from it as the subject of a collage. Use old magazine pictures.
11. Illustrate it with objects found at home or handmake, or with photographs you've taken of people, places, and events.
12. Create a mural about it, using charcoal, crayons, cut paper, water colors, or another art form.
13. Make a timeline of its events.
14. Make a seed mosaic to illustrate one of its settings or events.
15. Make a peepbox of an important scene or event.
16. Use sketches or photographs to recreate one of its action sequences.

Using the characters:

1. Role-play one of the characters.
2. Do a cartoon strip based on a character.
3. Design costumes for some of the characters.
4. Create paper dolls of the main characters.
5. Make puppets of the characters. Set up dialogue.

Using the book itself:

1. Pretend to be the book and tell what you hold within your pages.
2. Make a bulletin board about it, showing the main characters, the setting, and so forth.
   

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