Book projects middle school

Book reports and summaries are a thing of the past. Engage your middle and high school students with five book report alternatives that will leave them asking for more and, most importantly, building vital reading and analysis skills along the way. 1. Assign one pagers at the end of a novel. One pagers are engaging, allow for creativity, and lead to higher level thinking and analysis. Assigning a one pager is easy and works for any novel. Follow these simple guidelines: Make it standards…

I recently assigned a one-pager final project to my sophomores for their culminating Night project. I wanted to combine as many rigorous ELA content ideas as possible, while also designing a fun project for students that provided them with a bit of choice. To make this project rigorous, I required my students to include multiple […]

The days of dioramas and book reports may be long gone. (Is it wrong that I’m a little sad about that?) Yet the expectation that students read and express their understanding of what they’ve read remains as strong as ever. So what’s a teacher to do? More specifically, what’s a creative teacher to do, when she doesn’t want to rely on worksheets? Get creative, of course! I’ve compiled 9 Fun Book Projects for you. They’re quick and easy to prepare, and best of all, they’re engaging – for both…

From mint tins to cereal boxes to T-shirts.

Are your students bored with their current book projects? Learn more about how to use book projects to get your kids excited about reading again!

This huge 130 page No Prep Holes Novel Study Unit contains a complete interactive notebook for Holes by Louis Sachar. Perfect for your next novel study unit, these Holes book activities include reading strategy based Holes comprehension questions, worksheets, and graphic organizers. This is a great middle school novel study or upper elementary novel study for fourth grade, fifth grade, sixth grade, or seventh grade.

Not everyone loves book reports as much as I do, so I created this list of book report alternatives to help homeschooling moms and classroom teachers alike come up with their own ideas for alternatives to the written book report. If you have other ideas please share them with me in the comments! Book Report Alternatives…

A Book Report Project Your Students Will Love!

Book reports don't need to be painfully boring. In fact, they can be a ton of fun! Here are 10 creative book report ideas to use in your classroom.

This blog post covers ways to teach The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton in middle school and high school English. I designed a novel unit that has hands-on, interactive activities and projects for the book and show how it's used in the blog post. #middleschoolela #middleschoolenglish #novelstudy #highschoolela #highschoolenglish #theoutsiders