More Alternatives to the Boring Book Report

Cereal Box Book Report

Here's a link to my Teachers Pay Teachers example that's FREE:
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Paper-Bag-Biography-Book-Report
I made it into a sort of rubric.


I got the idea from http://fabulous-fourth.blogspot.com/.  Check out her post to see how she does this: http://fabulous-fourth.blogspot.com/2011/12/cereal-box-book-reports.html.

Alternatives to the Boring Old Book Report

In order to expose students to a variety of book genres,  my grade level has the students read one Accelerated Reader book and one book of a chosen genre.  We have the students take a computerized test on the AR book.  Students do either projects or summaries on the genre book.  Here's the schedule of genres and projects:

Month	Genre	Project
September	Realistic Fiction	Summary
October	Biography or Autobiography	Wanted Poster
November	Mystery	Summary
December	Realistic Fiction	Free Choice Project
January	Fantasy	Summary
February	Poetry	Poetry Book Jacket
March	Historical Fiction	Summary
April	Biography or Autobiography	Timeline
May	Free Choice	No project

Here are the links to my Teachers Pay Teachers store so you can go pick some of these projects up for FREE:
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Biography-Wanted-Poster-Book-Report
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Paper-Bag-Biography-Book-Report
I just read a post about using PowerPoint to do book reports, which I plan to use next year.  Go check it out for yourself:  http://atimetoshareandcreate.blogspot.com/2011/12/book-reportthe-powerpoint-way.html