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Beyond The Book Report

The following is a guest post written by Erika Saunders. Visit her blog .

I have never been a fan of the “Book Report”, the traditional listing of characters, settings, and plots. Surely there’s a better way to have students relate to the books they read.

So, when the powers-that-be requested that our students write book reports, I just had to jump in – or rather, I was volunteered. In any event, there I was convinced that therewas something better, another way that would be interesting to 6 th through 8 th graders. And so I began to list all the things I could do after reading a book.

Then, something wonderful happened. I began having all kinds of neat, interesting ideas. The more I thought about it, the more ideas came. And not just ideas butways to approach the ideas: monthly themes and kids’ choice.You could even have students develop their own ideas.

So, here is the list I created as my mind delved deeper and deeper – some I’ve gotten from some really creative teachers – thanks Ian! – others I’ve done with my students.I consider it a work-in-progress and look forward to continually adding to it.

The beauty is that there really are no limits. We just have to allow ourselves to think “outside of the book report”.

Make a CD/Soundtrack for the movie with an explanation for each song choice
Create a 30-second movie commercial/trailer podcast
Why this should be a movie
TV series idea
Abridged version of the book
Design a room that a character would have
Make a new book cover with a “write-up” and short pitch on why this should be the new cover
Turn the book into a short play
Create a fan blog
Design a Movie Poster
Write a letter to the head of a production company convincing them to make a movie
Write a letter to the “Fan Club” of the book
Create an “Interview with the Author”
Be a Talk Show Host interviewing the author
Rewrite the story using a new setting
Dress up like the character and retell the story
Write a summary from that character’s point-of-view
Be a Costume Designer for the movie version
Be the Set Designer for the movie version
Create a Graphic Novel version of the book
Create your own summary of what you think the sequel should be
Create a rap/song summary
Create the TV Show theme song
Illustrate the book
Make a documentary
Be a newscaster reporting the story
Make an audition video fora part in the movie
Record a voice-over
Describe the conflict/problem as a sport’s play
Create a Jeopardy game based on the book
Cast the movie/TV show
Link a real social/societal problem that relates to the story
Create a theme list and include books that fit into the theme
Create a photo album based on the book
Create a magazine based on the book
Write an advice column for the characters
Be the author’s editor– change one part to make the book better
Re-write it as a children’s book

And some more, this time from Carissa :

Have your students create infographics .
Create a Twitter account and Tweet on behalf of a character .
Don’t just create a soundtrack… create a whole playlist !
Create “ which character are you ?” quizzes

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12 creative book report ideas your students will love

12 Creative Book Report Projects Your Students Will Love

Whether you’re teaching a whole-class novel, or finishing a round of independent reading or literature circles, post-reading assessments are always more engaging when they’re more than just a test or essay.

Below, you’ll discover a dozen fun book report ideas for your middle or high school ELA students, curated by a team of experienced English teachers.

Choose your favorite projects to offer to students as options on a book report project choice board.

Create a Board Game

When I gave “create a board game about the book you read” as a book report option for my students, I was pleasantly surprised at the results! Quite a few students excitedly chose this option and created some really fun-looking games centered on their books.

This is a great project choice if you’re looking for something that students can’t create by just Googling the book.

Here are some tips and suggestions for assigning a board game book report:

Give clear parameters and requirements to keep students on track, such as requiring game elements to represent certain literary elements of the book they read.
Provide suggestions for game components and materials – encourage students to consider the game play and elements of their favorite board games and to use materials they already have at home to create them.
For a whole-class novel study, consider allowing students to work in teams to create the novel-based board games, then setting aside a class period for students to play each others’ games and see who wins!

If you’re looking to save time… clear directions handouts, lots of suggestions, and a handy grading rubric for a board game post-reading assessment are all included in this resource . Take a look!

For more independent reading response ideas, check out this post with ideas for fun post-reading projects.

Create a Journey Box

Engaging students in authentic conversations about books is a passion for Carolyn of Middle School Café . In traditional oral book reports, students simply get up in front of the class and read a summary of the book they read. Carolyn found this method of oral book reports painful for both her and her students.

Wanting to find a way to help her students talk about their book and keep her class engaged, Carolyn began incorporating Journey Box Book Reports. A journey box is a shoebox (or bag) that contains artifacts from the story that help the reader share important events from the story.

Students predetermine what events of the story are most important to share, then they create an artifact to share with the class or small group as they explain the plot. As an example, Carolyn had a student who read The Diary of Anne Frank. He created a small 3D tree that he displayed on the desk as he shared about how Anne looked out the window and dreamed of her former life. It’s a small piece of the story that helps the student explain the plot point and gives the audience something visual to look at and stay engaged.

Journey Box Book Reports have been successful for Carolyn in both her middle school and high school classrooms. She does suggest, if using Journey Boxes in older grades, to have students share their stories in small groups.

Create a Literary Food Truck

If there’s one thing kids love, it’s food – especially high schoolers – and with this in mind, one of Simply Ana P’s favorite ways to recap a class novel or an independent reading unit is with Literary Food Trucks. This is definitely not a new idea, but it’s one that will have you coming back for seconds 🙂

Ana first tried this project at the end of The Odyssey , where students were able to decide which book(s) they wanted to make the focus of their trucks. The main requirement was that every single choice made had to be intentional and clearly relevant. With this in mind, students could start the planning process.

You can make the truck’s requirements as simple or as detailed as you prefer, but Ana recommends having students plan:

Truck name, design, and branding colors
Menu design and items (5 items minimum)
Employee uniforms
Merch

Ana includes a writing component by having her students defend all of their selections in the form of a proposal. This is later used in their presentations, and the better (more intentional) their proposal is, the more likely they will win the class vote. This proposal can be anywhere from a few paragraphs to a few pages, depending on what writing goals you have for them, and should definitely include text evidence.

Part of the beauty of this type of project is that it can be done digital or paper-based. Ana likes to walk her students through a Canva tutorial, where there are even menu templates that students can use so they don’t feel overwhelmed starting from scratch. Or, for more creative students, they can create their trucks on chart paper, poster board, or even 3D dioramas. After students finish making their food trucks, it’s always fun to take a day for the in-class Food Festival, where students are invited to bring in items from their menus or simply some type of snacks. Some students get super hype about this day and even make/wear aprons or themed employee uniforms. Students are able to walk around, visiting each of their trucks, and casting their votes for Best Food, Most Relevant, and Most Detailed. Have fun and bon appetit !

Create a Mood Board

It can be hard to come up with creative post-reading assessments for your students when they’re done with a full class novel, literature circles, or a choice reading unit. In an attempt to combine 21 st century skills with literary analysis, Samantha from Samantha in Secondary decided to try something a little different. Enter: The Mood Board.

A mood board combines images to elicit a feeling from a viewer much like a writer does with words. The possibilities for using a mood board with your class are endless. Students can create a mood board for an overall book, a character, an event, a theme, a poem, etc. Then, have your students carefully curate a board that is aesthetically pleasing and considers color, space, and design in the execution. As students explain why they’ve made the choices they have, the upper-level thinking comes naturally.

Canva is an excellent tool to use to create your mood boards. Having students interact with software they may be unfamiliar with is a meaningful learning experience in and of itself. If you want to learn more about how to use mood boards in your own classroom, click here to read Samantha’s blog post about it or check out the resource she created that includes done-for-you student instructions, examples, and a rubric here .

Create a New App

How would a character’s life change if there was just the perfect app to solve their conflict??

This is the question Krista from @whimsyandrigor poses to her students as they finish a novel and begin to reflect on the character’s journey. Students begin by discussing all of the details surrounding the protagonist and what they experienced. In small groups and in whole-class discussions, students discuss the conflicts, both internal and external, and then brainstorm all of the realistic and not-so-realistic ways the character could have addressed their problems.

Once students have generated a healthy list of ideas, Krista tells them they get to become an app developer and they must create an app that would greatly benefit a character from their reading.

The requirements are:

The app cannot already exist.
The app can be totally unrealistic/not probable.
The app developer must be able to explain how its features would benefit the character.
The developer must also create an icon for the App Store.

Here is a print-and-go handout students use to get designing.

Here are some example apps students could create: to help Will from Jason Reynolds’s Long Way Down , maybe an app that predicts his future would help him decide what to do once he steps off the elevator. Or maybe Romeo from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet would have benefited from a life-detection app that would accurately determine whether or not someone was actually dead.

When students sette on the conflict they want to address and the app that would help, they write a Spill the TEA paragraph, as explained by Krista in this YouTube video . Using this paragraph organization strategy, students will introduce their app, use evidence to explain how it is necessary for the character, and explain how the app would have benefited or changed the protagonist’s journey.

Now they get to be a graphic designer as they design the app’s icon. Students may want to peruse the actual App Store to get ideas about how an icon is designed, what elements must be present, and how to create something that is eye-catching.

If space allows, Krista encourages you to display the icons and Spill the TEA paragraphs in the hallway for other students to see the in-depth critical thinking and character analysis your students did after finishing a novel.

Who says technology is only a distraction for our students?! This activity proves technology can help students dive deep into a text and its characters!

Write a Vignette

Lesa from SmithTeaches9to12 often focuses on character-based activities for novel studies including a character profile activity , character conversations through text messages , or the writing of a good vignette.

Vignettes can be a great way to assess students’ literary analysis skills and understanding of the text. Students write a short piece of about 500 words that is descriptive of a particular moment in time focusing on one of the book’s characters. These moments could be placing the character in a new setting, writing about a particular moment in the story that was less developed, or even extending to a moment beyond the book’s conclusion. Lesa provides students with some mentor texts, including “My Name” by Sandra Cisneros in The House on Mango Street or “The Prisoner Van” by Charles Dickens in Sketches by Boz or even one from a novel being read in class. Review the stories for structure, language choice, sentence structure, use of figurative language, and so on. This helps to co-create the criteria for the assignment. Then students write their own vignette. Build in some peer review as an accountability piece and voila!

Create a Character Collage

It’s safe to say that most English teachers have a bin of cut-up magazines somewhere in their classrooms. While these tattered copies of People and Us Weekly have definitely seen better days, they live on in the many collage creations of our students.

Katie from Mochas and Markbooks loves to use collages as visual representations of comprehension. After reading a novel or short story, creating a character collage to show how a character has evolved from beginning to end requires students to use higher order thinking skills to analyze, synthesize and demonstrate their understanding of characterization by dividing their page in half and choosing words and images to represent the character at the start and conclusion of the story on each side.

The results will show the depth of your students’ interpretation of character as well as their ability to use critical and creative thinking skills to represent their knowledge.

Other ways to use this idea instead of showing character evolution are to show two different sides to a character, for example, who they are with different people in their lives.

If you are looking for other ways to incorporate collage and magazines into your post-reading assessments, check out this blog post for more ideas!

Design Shoe Charms

Crocs are not Olivia ’s shoe of choice, but when she noticed her students bedazzling their plastic footwear with shoe charms, it was a learning opportunity she just couldn’t pass up. Here’s how to make it work in your classroom:

First, have your students choose a character from the book they have finished reading. Then encourage them to find quotes from the book that reveal the character’s interests, values, or personality. Once they have found their quotes (she has her students find 4), tell them to design and color shoe charms that represent those interests, values, or personality traits. This helps students with inferencing, textual evidence, and even symbolism!

When your students have finished making their shoe charms, they can either tape the charms to their shoes for a fabulous, foot-themed fashion show, or they can glue them to a picture of a Croc for quirky classroom décor. Check out this Instagram post to see the charms Olivia’s students came up with!

Create a Movie Poster

When was the last time you went to the movies? Did you notice the posters along the way? If yes then you have walked down the movie studio promotional lane. Like trailers, studios create movie posters to grab the attention of movie-goers before they even enter the theater. Yes, you may have already purchased your movie ticket, but those posters were created for the future. After you finish watching Sonic 2 , what movie will you see next? You probably already pointed to that poster on the way into the theater and said, “That looks like it is going to be good. I want to see that!” As a post reading idea, Sharena from The Humble Bird Teacher has her students create movie posters based on the text read in class. This allows her to complete a formative assessment on what the students learned from the text. Before having her class create a movie poster, she shows them examples of posters from different genres such as drama, action, family-friendly, and comedy. Then she hands out a piece of construction paper and goes over the basic requirements. On the movie poster, the students are required to have their actors names or image (characters), the title of the movie, a visual (setting or symbol from the story), and a tagline, and a short two to three sentence summary of the movie. Once her students are finished with the assignment, she displays them outside the classroom, so the students can have their own movie studio promotional lane. If you are looking for more after reading ideas, click here .

Try Novel Engineering

Whether you’ve been hoping to collaborate with another department, or just really want to try something new, Novel Engineering is an amazing way to get students thinking outside of the box ! Staci from Donut Lovin’ Teacher has found that Novel Engineering requires students to actively comprehend and interact with a novel and get creative about how to help improve the lives of characters! Basically, students work to create a product that will help solve a character’s problem. Here’s how it works…

Before reading : Choose a narrative text where the character faces tangible conflicts. Model and practice the design process in small ways. Try using picture books like Mucha! Muncha! Mucha! in order for students to see and practice what they’ll be doing with a text at grade-level.

While reading : Emphasize the conflicts characters face and give students time to brainstorm possible products that would help solve said problem. Make sure students record evidence from the text so they can later justify the need for the product they design.

After reading : Give students time to draft, craft, and improve their designs that will help solve a problem faced by a character. You can give students options where they draw their creation, make their creation, or even plan a digital app like this, depending on time and resources. Whatever you choose, students will be sure to be pushed to use some skills they may not always practice in an ELA classroom!

Staci has some FREE Novel Engineering Digital Planning Pages or you can read more about her experience with novel engineering on the Donut Lovin’ Teacher blog .

Create a Tik Tok Video

How many times have you passed a group of students filming a TikTok in a hallway? Have you had students ask to film in your class once they finish assignments? You are not alone. Students love TikTok and Yaddy from Yaddy’s Room has figured out how to get students using TikTok for academic purposes!

Yaddy likes to challenge students to create TikTok videos that track a character’s development, encapsulates the main theme of the story, or that exemplifies a key conflict. These easy, low stress videos are great at getting even reluctant students to participate.

To incorporate TikTok videos as a means of assessing students after a novel or story, try the following steps:

1) Get students to brainstorm which part of the novel they would like to use for their video.

2) Ask students to start combing TikTok for an audio that fits with the portion of the text they chose

3) Ask them to plan out how they will realize their vision

4) Rehearse and film!

5) Bonus: ask students to upload their videos to Google Drive and share the link with you so that you can make QR codes to post around your classroom!

Want to get started using TikTok videos for book reports? Check on Yaddy’s free planning sheet here !

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Tired of the same old book report formats? Do your students grumble every time you mention the words book reports? Spice up those old book reports with some new, creative ideas. Education World presents 25 ideas for you to use or adapt. In addition: Ideas for cyber book reports!

For more lesson ideas and many additional resources, be sure to visit Education World's And if you're looking for more great book report ideas, be sure to see our archive.

Are you a teacher who keeps saying "I wish I could find a way to make book reports more fun and interesting for my students"? Education World offers 25 ideas that might help you do just that!

Make A Book Report Sandwich!

In a recent posting to the Teachers.net Gazette, one teacher shared an idea that incorporates some of the basic ingredients of a good book report and sandwiches in a lot more fun!

Her idea: book report sandwiches!

The teacher commissioned a friend to draw slices of ham, tomato, and Swiss cheese; lettuce leaves; a layer of mayonnaise, and a couple of slices of bread. Then she photocopied the drawings onto appropriately colored sheets of paper -- ham on pink, tomato on red, Swiss cheese on yellow, etc. The sheets served as the ingredients for her students' book report sandwiches.

On the top slice of bread, each student wrote the title and the author of the book the student had just finished reading.
On the lettuce, the student wrote a brief summary of the book.
The student wrote about the main character on the tomato slice.
On the mayonnaise, the student described the book's setting.
The student shared the book's climax on the Swiss cheese.
On the ham slice, the student described the plot.
On the bottom piece of bread, the student drew a favorite scene from the story.

Students stapled together their sandwich layers, then slapped their concoctions up on a bulletin board headlined "We're Hungry for Good Books!"

The project made fun out of what can be a pretty hum-drum activity. Even better, the bulletin board served as a menu for students who were ravenous for a good read. All they had to do was grab a sandwich to learn whether a particular book might satisfy their appetites!

Book in a Bag, an Envelope, an Oatmeal Box

Laura Hayden was looking for something to liven up book report writing for her students at Derby (Kansas) Middle School. One day, while exploring postings to the MiddleWeb Listserv , Hayden found an idea that filled the bill! Hayden challenged her students to be creative with the "Book in a..." idea, which she posted to her school's Web page.

After choosing and reading a book, each student selected a book report container. The container could be a plastic bag, a manila envelope, a can, or anything else that might be appropriate for a book. Students decorated their containers to convey some of the major details, elements, or themes found in the books.

When the containers were complete, students went to work on the contents of their containers. They were instructed to include the following:

Questions Write ten questions based on the book. Five of the questions can be about general content, but the other five must require more thinking.
Vocabulary Create a ten-word glossary of unfamiliar words from the book.
Things Include five things that have a connection to the story.

The third and final part of the project was the student presentation. Each student presented a "Book in a" project to the class. In the presentation, the student explained the connection of the container to the story, conducted a show and tell about the five things, and then shared information about three of the book's literary elements -- setting, characters, conflicts, climax, or resolution.

If you've been working on other literary elements with your students -- foreshadowing, personification, or flashbacks, for example -- you might give extra credit to students for pointing out those elements in their books.

"I'm amazed at students' creativity in choosing a container and the 3-D objects they place inside," Hayden told Education World.

Why not challenge your students' creativity? Adapt Hayden's idea to fit your students' needs and skills.

23 More Ideas

Are you worried that some of the ideas that follow will be too much fun? that there will be too little emphasis on writing? Take a look!

The ideas appeal to many different learning styles.
Many of the ideas involve making choices, organizing information -- and writing!
Most of the ideas will provide teachers with a clear idea about whether students actually read the book.
And all the ideas will engage students, help make books come alive for them, and challenge them to think in different ways about the books they read!

If an idea doesn't include enough writing, creative (sneaky!) teachers will usually find a way to work it in use the idea to supplement or replace parts of favorite book report formats.

Descriptive writing. (Use this activity to supplement a class lesson in descriptive prose writing.) Have each student read aloud the best example of descriptive prose found in the book he or she is currently reading. The student should write a paragraph explaining why the excerpt is a particularly good example of descriptive prose. The paragraph might include some of the adjectives the author used to set the scene.

Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down. Each student writes a review of the book he or she just finished reading -- in the style of a movie review. The student concludes by awarding a thumbs up or thumbs down on the book. This activity could be even more fun if two students read the same book. They could plan a lively interaction, a la and Ebert and Roeper, about the book, which could be videotaped for all to see!

Character Trait Diagram. Each student creates a Venn diagram to illustrate similarities and differences in the traits of two of the main characters in a book just completed. (A student might elect to create a Venn diagram showing similarities and differences between the book's main character and the student!)

Surfing the Net. Where did the story take place? When did it take place? Each student surfs the Net to find five Internet sites that others might check out before they read the book so they will know more about the book's setting or time period.

Write a Letter to the Author. After reading a book, each student shares reactions to the book in a letter written to its author. If a student writes to an author who is still alive, you might actually mail the letter.

Sell It. Each student pretends to be a publicist for the book that's just been read. The student writes and then delivers a 60-second speech that will persuade other students that they should read the book. Writing and speaking persuasively will be especially difficult if the student didn't like the book. If that's the case, the student can share that fact after completing the speech.

Create a Card Catalog. After reading a book, a student completes an index card with information about the book. The front of the card includes details such as title, author, and date published along with a two- to three-sentence synopsis of the book. On the back of the card, the student writes a paragraph critiquing the book. Students might even rate the book using a teacher-created five-star rating system. Example: A five-star book is "highly recommended; a book you can't put down." Completed cards are kept in a card file near the classroom bookshelf or in the school library.

Interview a Character. Each student composes six to eight questions to ask a main character in a book just completed. The student also writes the character's response to each question. The questions and answers should provide information that shows the student read the book without giving away the most significant details.

Ten Facts. Each student creates a "Ten Facts About [book title]" sheet that lists ten facts he or she learned from reading the book. The facts, written in complete sentences, must include details the student didn't know before reading the book.

Script It! Each student writes a movie script for a favorite scene in a book just read. At the top of the script, the student can assign real-life TV or movie stars to play each role. The student might also work with classmates to perform the favorite scene.

Concentration. Each student will need 30 index cards to create a Concentration-style game related to a book just finished. The student chooses 14 things, characters, or events that played a part in the book and creates two cards that have identical pictures of each of those things. The two remaining cards are marked Wild Card! Then the student turns all 30 cards facedown and mixes them up. Each student can choose a partner with whom to play according to the rules of Concentration.

What Did You Learn? Each student writes a summary of what he or she learned from a book just completed. The summary might include factual information, something learned about people in general, or something the student learned about himself or herself.

Glossary and Word Search. Each student creates a glossary of ten or more words that are specific to a book's tone, setting, or characters. The student defines each word and writes a sentence from the book that includes that word. Then the student creates a word search puzzle that includes the glossary words. Students can exchange their glossaries and word searches with others in the class.

In the News. Each student creates the front page of a newspaper that tells about events and characters in a book just read. The newspaper page might include weather reports, an editorial or editorial cartoon, ads, etc. The title of the newspaper should be something appropriate to the book.

Create a Comic Book. Each student can turn a book, or part of it, into a comic book, complete with comic-style illustrations and dialogue bubbles.

Characters Come to Life. Each student creates life-size "portraits" of one of the characters from a book just read. The portrait should include a written piece that tells about the character. The piece might also include information about events, traits, or conflicts in the book that involve that character. Hang the students' portraits in a class gallery.

Prove It in Five Minutes. Each student gives a 150-second (2-minute) oral presentation in which he or she shares information about a book's plot and characters. The student closes the presentation by offering an opinion and recommendation about the book. Then students in the audience have 150 seconds to question the presenter about the book. If the presenter is able to prove in five minutes that he or she read the book, the student is excused from filing a written report about it.

Picture Books. After reading a book, each student creates a picture book version of the story that would appeal to younger students. The students can then share the picture books with a group of young students.

Resume Writing. As a tie-in to your career education program, challenge each student to create a resume for a book character. The student should include in the resume a statement of the applicant's goals and a detailed account of his or her experience and outside interests.

Character Trait Chart. Each student creates a chart with three columns. Each column is headed with the name of one of the book's characters. As the student reads the book, he or she can keep a record of the traits each character possesses and include an incident that supports each trait.

Theme Report. Challenge each student to select a concept or a thing from the book just finished and to use library or Internet resources to explore it further. The student then writes a two-page report that shares information about the topic.

Setting. To learn more about the setting of a book, each student writes a one-page report explaining how that setting was important to the story.

"Dear Diary." Invite each student to create a diary or journal and write at least five entries that might have been written by a character in a book just read. The entries should share details about the story that will prove the student read the book.

Looking for books that will capture your students’ interests and stimulate their curiosity? You can find curated collections of high-interest fiction and non-fiction texts at .

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42 Creative Book Report Ideas for Students

Inspire your students to share their love of books. Responding to what you read is an important literacy skill. Reading about other people’s experiences and perspectives helps kids learn about the world. And although students don’t need to dive deeply into every single book they read, occasionally digging into characters, settings, and themes can help them learn to look beyond the prose. Here are 42 creative book report ideas designed to make reading more meaningful.

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A Creative Way of Reporting on Books

By using creative ways to complete book reports, like using cereal boxes, you can motivate students.

By Deborah Reynolds

Remember the way book reports were done when we were in school? The task consisted of reading a book (usually one assigned by the teacher), and then writing a short summary. These book reports were rarely a thrill for students to do, and were probably rather boring for teachers to read and grade.

But trying new techniques can make book reports fun, creative, and educational for your students. One way to do this is to create Cereal Box Book Reports. This is an opportunity to incorporate several academic objectives into one project, including reading, writing, and math concepts. Additionally, this is a great way to talk about the importance of reusing and recycling.

There are many ways to create Cereal Box Book Reports, but here is one idea that incorporates language arts and history. Students can do a report on an important figure from the American Revolution . Teachers can assign each student a famous individual from this time period, and students can choose a book to read about the life of that person. Students then use their cereal boxes to post information about the book they read. Side one is the cover, which includes the name of the author, the name of the illustrator (if there is one), and a picture (drawn, digital, or cut-out) of the famous person they read about. The sides of the box can be used to show a timeline of the person’s life, a list of important events, a description of the author's purpose, etc . . . The back of the box should have a summary of the book in the student’s own words. The bottom of the box could include a brief explanation of the author’s purpose for writing the book, and the top should contain student information such as their name, class, date, etc . . . With this one project, you have covered summarizing, fact vs. opinion, sequencing, and author’s purpose.

This book report idea is not only creative, but a great way to address the needs of diverse classrooms. Differentiation is built into the project because each student represents his or her own level of ability and creativity when constructing their report. Having the whole class save cereal boxes also gives parents on limited budgets a break from having to purchase expensive poster boards, or plastic report covers. Lastly, students who have limited access to a computer will still be able to experience success with this project. Here are some other lesson plans that will allow your students to creatively present their next book report.

Book Report Lesson Plans:

Cereal Box Book Report Project

Here is a different way to follow up a good book! Students design the front of the box to look like a movie poster. The other sides of the box relate to story elements. Students use creativity to represent the characters, setting, tone, and theme of the book. This wonderful lesson plan adds a lot of artistic elements to a book report.

Early Presidents

After reading about the first presidents of the United States, students create book reports using cereal boxes. Students write a bio-poem on the back using notes taken on the reading. To report important information on the president, students include a section in which they list the most significant information about that person.

Various Book Reports

Students analyze literature using creative methods of reporting what is read. This excellent lesson comes with five handouts that guide students through the process. Scaffolding, collaborative projects, and independent work are used to differentiate this process. A rubric is also included.

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Book Report Ideas: Creative Ideas for Book Reports

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Book reports are a curriculum mainstay, but their format is a bit tired.

Spice up your assignment with these creative book report ideas!

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Book Report Ideas

Book reports are a great educational tool because they teach students to identify the framework of a story and analyze its structure and style.

They are also a welcome chance to practice persuasive writing and presentation.

Book reports’ very utility is why they are assigned so often (and why students start to dread them).

You can turn all this around by jazzing up a book report in one of two ways.

The first way to add creativity to a book report is to alter the form of the report.

Instead of summarizing the story, plot, setting, and characters and ending with a recommendation (“I liked this book because…”), you ask for something more creative .

The second way to add creativity is to change up the presentation.

Who says a book report need always be on 8.5 x 11 paper?

Why not creatively present the report (and perhaps incorporate art as well)?

Creative Ideas for Book Reports

Here are some book report ideas that ask for creative content:

Ask the Therapist Book Report

Imagine you are a therapist analyzing a character in the story.

What does the character fear?

Give specific examples from the story.

Magazine Interview Book Report

Imagine you are a reporter interviewing the main character for an article.

What would you ask the person?

Write an engaging article about the background of the character, their personal life, and what’s next on the horizon.

5W’s + H Book Report

Keep it simple and have the student answer these basic questions (the main components of a story sequence chart).

Who are the main characters?
When does it take place?
Where does it take place?
What is the problem?
How is it resolved?
Why did you like/dislike it?

Newspaper Article Book Report

Take the 4W’s + H questions above (leave off the “Why” question) and turn it into a newspaper article.

You can illustrate it.

Villain’s Book Report

Imagine that the villain of the story (as an alternative, pick a minor character) read the book.

What would his/her book report be like?

How would the villain describe the main character and the action?

What would the villain think about the way the author told the story?

Collage Book Report

Hunt through magazines to find pictures that tell the story.

Assemble them and give a presentation of your book report with that as a visual aid.

Book Report Acrostic

Use the title of the book (or even the letters of the alphabet ABC…) to generate an acrostic poem about the book.

If the book is Tom Sawyer , T could be “Tom is a clever and hilarious boy.” O could be, “Over and over you see Tom get into mischief.”

Book Report Project Ideas

Here are some book report project ideas that involve creative presentation:

The World’s Tiniest Book Report

Stick to the basics and assemble a mini book report.

You can fit it in a mint tin or jewelry box.

Origami Book Report

Put the 5W’s and H in an origami creation like the classic “cootie catcher” (alas, that is what the kids call it and what you have to put in the search engine).

Illustrated Book Report

Don’t just stop at writing–add art!

Diorama Book Report

Create a diorama of the most important scene in the book.

Have the student give a presentation on what is happening in the scene and why she feels it is pivotal.

Keep in mind that you’re probably going to have to teach your students how to make a diorama because it’s pretty much a lost art!

Book Report in a Bag

Decorate a grocery bag with the title of the book and illustration.

Fill the bag with the paragraphs of a book report, each written on their own paper in fun shapes.

Reach your hand into the bag and pull out the info on the book!

Pizza Box Book Report

Ask a local pizza company to donate some unused boxes.

Create paper book report pizzas that tell about the book on each slice.

Decorate the inside lid of the pizza box like a project board advertising your book.

Cover Design Book Report

Create a new dust jacket for the book.

How would you illustrate it?

What content would you put on the back to entice the reader to buy the book?

Don’t forget to invent quotations from other famous authors or celebrities!

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Your students have likely had enough of the traditional book report.

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Fun book report ideas for fourth, fifth and sixth graders.

Book reports don’t need to be painfully boring. In fact, they can be a ton of fun, and with the right project, students will love the entire process of creating and sharing meaningful book projects. There are loads of great book report ideas out there just waiting to happen in your classroom!

Here are 10 book report ideas that kids will love:

1. cereal box book report.

These oh-so-cool reports were always the top-ranked project by my fifth graders. Students loved creating an original book report display using a covered cereal box and ready-made templates. The finished projects made a great classroom display, and students loved looking at their classmates’ creative reports. Read more about Cereal Box Book Reports HERE .

2. Paper Bag Book Report

This is a super simple idea that is quite fun for students. Provide each student with a lunch-sized paper bag. Tell them to think about 5 objects that relate to the main character of their book . The objects have to be small enough to fit into the bag . Send the bags home and have students place the 5 objects in the bag and bring them back to school. On the day they are due, have students take turns sharing the objects in their bags and explaining how they relate to the main character of the book. You can even make a great display with the bags, objects, and books to pique the interest of other students.

3. Character Day

Have students dress up as the main character of their book. Then, have each student take a turn standing in front of the class and telling their character’s story in first person point of view.

4. Book Report Lap Book

you need are two file folders, some cardstock or construction paper, scissors, glue, and the FREE book report template found here . The finished products are quite amazing, and your students will probably keep theirs forever! Check out my photo tutorial for making a lap book .

5. Book Scene Diorama

Have students construct a diorama of one of the main events of their book. They will make a 3-dimensional scene, including models of characters, the setting, and objects. A shoebox makes a great place to build a diorama. Require students to write a description of the scene.

6. Book Report Posters

This might be the easiest option of the book report ideas. Have students first sketch their posters on a sheet of notebook paper. Then, provide students with a large piece of poster paper or chart paper. Posters must identify main characters, setting, title, problem, and solution. Display finished posters in the classroom or on hallway walls.

7. Book Report Mobiles

Mobiles are easy to make, and it’s fun to watch students use their creativity in designing their own projects. A paper plate folded in half makes a great base/topper for mobiles. Have students write the title of the book on this paper plate semi circle and hang the mobile pieces from it. Provide students with construction paper, yarn, markers, paper hole punches, and any other materials they might need.

8. Book Report Mini Books

With just one piece of paper, your students can make a complete, creative book report!

In these clever book projects , students identify:

Title/Author
Main Character

No tape, glue, or staples required! Photo directions are included in this download.

9. Design a Book Jacket

Show your students several examples of some outstanding book jackets. Point out the front with the title and illustration, the spine and its information, and the back with the book summary. Also show the two inside flaps with information about the author and a smaller summary. Provide them each with a larger piece of paper and have them design a jacket for the book they have just read.

10. Ready-to-Print Templates

Use NO PREP book report templates to save your sanity AND to keep things fun for your students. You could print out all 12 templates in this Book Report Templates Packet and let students choose the one they want to do each month! There is even a really nice digital option for Google classroom included!

Regardless of which of these book report ideas you choose, be sure to clearly outline the expectations before your students begin. It’s best if you can model a project to demonstrate the quality of work your students should strive for.

Keep it fun and engaging, and your students will be excited to invest their time in their projects!

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Cereal Box Book Report
Paper Bag Book Report
Character Day
Book Report Lapbook
Book Scene Diorama
Book Report Posters
Book Report Mobiles
Design a Book Jacket
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Teacher Projects to Make Reading Activities More Engaging for Gifted and Talented Children

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Extending the Story

Much-loved gifted and talented projects for many students include reading and writing stories. Tap into this interest by having students extend one of the stories that they’ve read. (For example, they could add a character to <em>Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory</em> .) Although there are endless ways to do this, the following are some ideas that many gifted and talented students enjoy:

Write an alternative ending for the story. What else might have happened?

Put the main character into a different story that you’ve read. How might the character have reacted to these different circumstances?

Write a prologue to the story. What might have happened days, or even years, before the story began?

Write a summary of the story in a different setting. How would the story be different? (Remember that setting includes both time and place).

Write in Different Genres

Another way to help expand the horizons of gifted and talented students is to have them to write in various genres. For example, you might have them write several newspaper articles on events that happened in a book that they’ve been reading. They might write a few blog posts, pretending to be one of the characters in the books, or a magazine article in which one of the characters is quoted as an expert source.

For students who enjoy artwork, consider having them write a comic version of the book or draw illustrations that might fit with various chapters. These reading projects allow them to see how the ideas in one book can be expressed in different ways.

Online Book Reviews

In today’s schools, many classrooms are connected to the Internet. If so, allow your gifted and talented students to become book reviewers. Many websites (including Amazon), allow people to review books that they’ve read. These gifted and talented projects bring the typical “book report” to an entirely new level, and students will enjoy feeling like they can influence other people on whether to read the book.

These ideas should help you to engage your gifted students in reading. If you have any other tips then please post a comment and let us know.

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50 Tips, Tricks and Ideas for Teaching Gifted Students

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Gifted kids can be a joy to teach when you know how to identify what engages them. These 50 tips and tricks come from my own experience and from around the Web. They’re good to have in your bag of tricks whether you’re a newbie or an old hand at teaching these high-level thinkers.

1. Know Their Interests

Every year, I start by having my students complete an interest inventory . This helps me ensure that curriculum is personalized to their interests.

2. Try Book Talks

Share what you are reading with gifted students. Often, these students experience a reading lag where they can’t find a sweet spot because it is hard for high-ability students to understand what is both challenging and appropriate.

3. Keep Them Active

Gifted students often need to have the ability to move when learning … pacing, flapping and bouncing are parts of their thinking process.

4. Offer Flexible Seating

A window seat is my favorite place to read, so I keep that in mind when offering seating. Try to offer different seating options for students: beanbag chairs, carpet squares, pillows, director chairs … the list can go on and on.

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5. Model Social Situations

Social situations can be challenging for some gifted students as their ability to understand social cues can be underdeveloped. Team up with other teachers to model the proper way to start conversations.

6. Share Current Events

Current events are important to incorporate into gifted programming. We want these students to be thinking about how they can use their talents to solve real-world problems.

7. Look for the Helpers

As important as current events are, it is also just as important to understand that gifted students internalize global happenings on a very personal level. Kids do not have the experience with the world to understand that despite there being a war or attack, there are still good things happening in the world.

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8. Allow for Groupings

Not all gifted students are meant to be the project manager. Allow students the opportunity to work alone or in a group. Even cross-grade groupings work well with gifted students.

9. Mind the Child Labor Laws

Gifted students who finish early should not automatically be the teacher’s helper. Gifted students can be some of the worst students to assist others because their brains often work very differently. Having a gifted child help a student who is struggling may do more harm than good.

10. Create a Makerspace

My grandmother always said, idle hands are the devil’s workshop … so keep some key things in the back for busy hands. LEGO bricks, cardboard and masking tape, and Snap Circuits are some of my favorites!

11. Introduce Minecraft Edu

Don’t be scared to incorporate students’ passions and interests. I once had a student who never wanted to practice spelling words until I told him he could practice them in Minecraft. Minecraft Edu has lots of great ways teachers can implement this engaging game in the classroom.

SOURCE: http://education.minecraft.net/

12. Give Them End Dates

Provide gifted students with clear endpoints on projects and assignments. Gifted students can create unusually high expectations and never see an end in sight; a book reflection can easily become a 10-page paper, a PowerPoint can become an intensive course on the topic. Letting students know where to stop can be helpful.

13. Set Realistic Goals

Use FutureMe.org and have students write a letter to their future selves. Once students have written the letter, you can set the date for it to be sent to their inbox. What a great way for students to set goals and create natural check-in points.

14. Teach Decision-Making

Gifted students can have a huge case of FOMO: fear of missing out. They understand that decisions have consequences, and sometimes they need to be given an inordinate amount of details about their options. Allow for the gifted student to fully understand the pros and cons of a decision.

15. Be Patient

Gifted students are processing a lot in their minds. Be patient and give them the time to reflect on what they need to come to a consensus they can live with.

16. Assign Expiration Dates

My gifted students walk into class with exploding folders and binders. They keep everything because there is a fear of being unprepared. Just like expiration dates for food, think about adding a footer to your handouts: “This handout expires on April 15.”

17. Model Organization Strategies

Or at least model how you organize life. Gifted students like options and seeing how they work in the “real world” is very helpful. I show students how I use notes to organize things , how Google Calendar is my lifeline, and what I do for physical notes. I have used planners in the past and show those examples as well.

We also review different apps that could be helpful. I urge students to find what works for them. No system is not an answer. We all need a system to help us be productive. When I taught younger students, we would all try different systems together as our end-of-the-day procedure.

18. Use Brain Breaks

Offer gifted students a hobby that can help calm their busy minds. Teach them how to Zentangle , breathe, meditate, make friendship bracelets, knit, color—anything that allows for them to focus carefully on details can help them quiet some of the extra noise.

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19. Explore Their Passions

Some gifted students don’t have a passion yet because they haven’t found it. Provide exposure to as much as possible. TED talks are one way to help students think about different topics. TED even has created teaching enhancements. I heart TED.

20. Read Tons of Biographies

Reading, watching or listening to the lives of others can help gifted students develop a plan of action and see what others did to accomplish goals.

21. Read Lots of Everything

It is true, so many gifted students have found a book that becomes so much a part of them, they can discuss it at length. Bibliotherapy is a great way for students to experience how to deal with issues and learn tactics and strategies.

22. Pre-Assess Them

For the love of anything that is holy, this should probably be no. 1. Research states that most gifted students do not learn new information until January. Don’t make a student who has already mastered a concept sit through the lesson again.

23. Allow Them to Focus

Let gifted students pursue their interests. If they want to let everything be about dinosaurs, more power to them! We need paleontologists. As mentioned in Outliers , it takes over 10,000 hours to be an expert. To get that many hours on a time card, students have to be allowed to focus.

24. Make Connections

We need to allow students to hyper-focus but also then be the “guide on the side” that helps them make connections from one area to another. Perhaps we can get our dinosaur expert to use Scratch and make a “Dino Dig” math game?

25. Find Mentors

Gifted students need mentors within their interest areas. Mentors can teach students how to navigate through professions and can even be gatekeepers to additional opportunities.

26. Practice Like Professionals

Allow students to practice like the professionals. Use the same processes that professionals use. Looking to try fashion designing? Have students actually sew, measure, use patterns and do the alterations. Visit the American Museum of Natural History’s OLogy interactive site.

27. Locate Authentic Audiences

The work students create should have a real audience and be appreciated by those who authentically would benefit from its completion. Younger students are a great first authentic audience.

28. Put Them in Escape Rooms

If you haven’t heard of these yet, drop everything and head over to http://www.breakoutedu.com/digital/ . These are a great way to curate the knowledge you want your students to gain.

29. Watch Webinars

You can find webinars on just about any topic that interests your students. If you sign up at Edtech , they will send weekly lists of upcoming professional webinars.

30. Submit Inventions

Inventions are a great way for students to take risks and try different things. I feel like students are more apt to take risks when they are creating something new. Student Inventions for a Better America challenges students to submit an invention that will make the world a better place … and there are winners every month.

31. Try Gamification

I love The Mind Research Institute , which challenges students in grades K–12 to design their own mathematical game.

32. Check Out Local Happenings

Do you live in the middle of nowhere? Me too! But I was surprised to learn there were still a TON of events happening on the weekends. If you are in the urban areas, you are rich in opportunities. Look to local libraries, museums or universities.

33. Send Them to Summer Camp

Some of my closest childhood friendships started at summer camp. These times allowed for encouragement and allowed kids to be nurtured in an environment where trying something new was the goal. Summer camp allowed me to be myself and try new things.

34. Solve Local Problems

“With great power comes great responsibility,” says one of our favorite superheroes, and he is correct—kindness counts. We need to do good with the gifts and talents we have been given. Give gifted students the opportunity to solve local problems and see the need for change in their own community. Allow a book to inspire this mission: Wonder , Kindness Club , or The Summer I Changed the World in 65 Days .

35. Develop Book Clubs

What do friends all have in common? Interests!! We are attracted to those who think similarly and those who challenge our beliefs. Book clubs make for a great space for likeminded students to come together to discuss a common theme … in this case a book, which serves as a great discussion starter.

36. Allow for Voice and Choice

How many of you hated a certain book in high school only to read it as an adult and see how wrong you were? The moment we lost choice (of what to read in this case), we also lost joy. Allowing gifted students to have choice in the classroom allows them to feel empowered and engaged. Choices do not need to be huge either, small choices are just as important.

37. Raise the Bar

No one wants to only be the big fish in a small pond. We want to be around people who will make us better and want to achieve more. Allow your gifted student to be challenged by participating in academic competitions such as National History Day. Your students will see what true competition is.

38. Brainstorm

This is one of the best ways to develop critical thinking. Show a picture of clouds … what do you see? This type of activity develops fluency, elabora tion, originality and abstract thinking, which are all integral parts of being a creative thinker. Try Google’s Quick, Draw! It’s a great tool for getting students to think rapidly—it’s also a gem for indoor recess.

39. Model Curiosity

When the students ask a question you don’t know, look it up with them. As librarian media specialist Melissa Thom says, “the smartest people are the people who know how to find answers to their own questions.” Follow her on twitter at @ msthombookitis .

40. Try Flocabulary

Flocabulary creates content-rich raps (yes, as in hip-hop) about just about ANYTHING. There are so many wonderful resources embedded within—contests, lyric labs, lyric notes, connections to primary sources, teacher plans, corresponding handouts, questioning and so much more! This will quickly become your favorite teaching resource. I promise!

41. Let Them Read Below-Level Books

Why do we expect every book gifted students read to be 1.5–2 grade levels above their reading level? I say, if a student is enjoying a book, read it! Yes, challenging books are needed to develop reading ability but don’t discount a book just because it is below a student’s level. Reading a book for a different purpose can increase the difficulty of a book without changing the text.

42. Connect Globally

Global Read Aloud is a program where one book is used to connect the world. Pernille Ripp founded GRA in 2010 with the simple idea to read a book aloud to her stude nts and during that time try to make as many global connections as possible. This mission has grown exponentially and has reached over two million students. Collaborating with students in other states and countries will help a gifted student think empathetically.

43. Incorporate Mythology

If you know a gifted s tudent, then you know that mythology can be a huge interest—often spurred by the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan. Allow students to build a better understanding by incorporating mythology into different curricular units.

This is an authentic way for gifted students to share their reading in a way that we would as adults. Creating readers means treating them like readers—when I finish a book I do not take a comprehension quiz. I talk about it, share it with friends or write about it. Have your students react to reading like real readers. Kidblog is a great tool for creating safe student blogs.

45. Crowdsource

Two heads are better than one! Allow students to go places where they can collaborate. Google Docs is a great place to start, but also explore tools like FlipGrid , a tool that allows students to record and reply to one another.

46. Be a Safe Space

Provide a safe space for gifted students to take risks without being put down. Gifted students are often timid to answer something they are unsure about because of the social stigma attached to not answering correctly. Create a classroom culture where wrong answers become an opportunity to celebrate different thinking. Check out Nancy Anderson’s book, What’s Right About Wrong Answers? Learning Math From Mistakes .

47. Use QR Codes

QR codes add an interactive component to your classroom. Create a QR Code Museum or Gallery or even a QR scavenger hunt on one of your classroom bulletin boards.

48. Write Haikus

A frog jumps into the pond, splash! Silence again. This is Basho Matsuo’s famous haiku. Use haiku as a way to challenge gifted students to summarize chapters, current events, biographies or vocabulary words. Haiku are student-friendly yet force them to be concise and purposeful with their word choice.

49. Change the World

Action is powerful for gifted students. Allowing students to find solutions to problems they see in their school, neighborhood or community will allow them to understand that they can make a difference. Internalizing that they can be the change in the world is transformational. Watch these TED Talks to show them what kids like them are doing to change the world.

50. Record Them

Allow gifted students to record their voices into an app or movie application. Teaching in front of peers is public speaking and that is its own beast. By allowing gifted students to show their work in a way that allows their confidence to be present is a win-win. Explain Everything is a collaborative and interactive whiteboard tool that makes this approach a piece of cake!

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Finding Books for Your Gifted Readers

The best thing about having gifted readers is also the hardest thing – they are voracious . They inhale books, consume them, and aren’t even done chewing on their last novel before they’re begging for more. Parenting a gifted child comes with many perks and twists, intensities and unexpected challenges , but one of the most common and over-arching issues that pops up time and again with gifted readers is the question – What should my gifted readers be reading?

There’s an impulse, usually at first, to pump our gifted readers with an unending supply of nonfiction texts, encyclopedias, almanacs. We know they crave knowledge – and can absorb it – so we tend to swing too far in the direction of avoiding the colorful books for the informational ones. But no matter how brilliant these little minds are, gifted readers crave more than just facts. They want adventure, humor, mystery. They want to meet new characters, imagine new places, and be transported to an existence that only exists in books.

And so we start allowing them to roam among the fiction sections, only to discover a new problem – just what is appropriate for our gifted readers to dive into? They’re reading several grade levels ahead of the books written for kids their age, but not quite emotionally ready for the content written at their intellectual level. Gifted readers crave more complexity in their reading, so we tend to veer away from the more brightly-colored young readers and wander into the darker YA sections where the content may be understood, but not appropriate. It’s the eternal struggle of parents of gifted readers – just what are we supposed to give our kids to read?

Fortunately, literature is not as black and white as you may have thought (pun intended). Here you’ll find many, many suggestions, from series for young gifted readers, to booklists, and yes, even picture books! Explore the many enjoyable options for your gifted readers, and don’t forget to leave your own favorite books in the comments! Books Featuring Gifted or Twice-Exceptional Characters Being able to read about someone like themselves, other gifted characters, outside-the-box thinkers, and even twice-exceptional stories makes books even more personable and enjoyable for gifted readers. Check out some of these great titles featuring gifted or 2e characters!

The Mysterious Benedict Society (or go ahead and grab the whole series !) by Trenton Lee Stewart
Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Millicent Min , Girl Genius by Lisa Yee
Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper
The Adventures of Everyday Geniuses series, such as If You’re So Smart, How Come You Can’t Spell Mississippi , Free Association Where My Mind Goes During Science Class , and Last to Finish, A Story About the Smartest Boy in Math Class
Supergifted by Gordon Korman
The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place by E.L. Konigsburg
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
Matilda by Roald Dahl
The Penderwicks series by Jeanne Birdsall
A Series of Unfortunate Events collection by Lemony Snickett
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
The View From Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
Ungifted by Gordon Korman
Schooled by Gordon Korman
Midnight Hour Encores by Bruce Brooks
Masterminds by Gordon Korman
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman

Picture Books for Creative Kids Picture books aren’t just for toddlers! Check out these fantastic titles that feature deep storylines, concepts, moving art, and even open-ended storytelling opportunities.

Weslandia by Paul Fleischman
Life by Cynthia Rylant
Unspoken by Henry Cole
Every Living Thing by Cynthia Rylant
The Gardener by Sarah Stewart
Here We Are by Oliver Jeffers
The Library by Sarah Stewart
The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires
Zen Shorts by Jon J Muth
Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
What Do You Do With an Idea? by Kobi Yamada
My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann
Journey (part of a wordless trilogy worth check out!) by Aaron Becker
The Dot by Peter H Reynolds
The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson
The Three Questions by Jon J Muth
Ish by Peter H Reynolds
Red: A Crayon’s Story by Michael Hall

Great Series to Keep Young Readers Hooked Young gifted readers can sure grab onto a character, series, or topic with passion. Try out any (or all!) of these series and collections that are sure to keep young readers with their noses in books for a long time to come.

Cam Jansen series by David A. Adler
Nate the Great series by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
A-Z Mysteries by Ron Roy
The Green Ember series by S.D. Smith
The Magic Treehouse series by Mary Pope Osborne
Various Junior Genius Guides by Ken Jennings
How to Train Your Dragon series by Cressida C
I Survived series by Lauren Tarshis
Horrible Histories collection by Terry Deary
Sir Cumference series by Cindy Neushwander
The Complete Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Lord of the Rings saga by J.R.R. Tolkien
Encyclopedia Brown series by Donald J. Sob
Redwall series by Brian Jacques

Books to Help You Find More Books Sometimes you just need a jumping off point, a guide you can take to your local library or bookstore to help you navigate through the endless shelves of stories. These books are great guides to helping parents select just the right books for their young gifted readers.

The Read-Aloud Family by Sarah Mackenzie
Give Your Child the World by Jamie C. Martin
Some of My Best Friends Are Books by Judith Wynn Halsted
Better than Life by Daniel Pennac
The Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease
Guiding Gifted Readers by Judith Wynn Halsted

More Book Lists to Help Parents of Gifted Readers If your voracious young reader has already made their way through every title featured here, then be sure to browse these other lists composed by various institutions, all intended for gifted readers and bursting with great literature!

Mensa’s Excellence in Reading suggested book list for gifted readers (scroll to the bottom for grade level suggestions)
Hoagies’ Books for Children, Featuring Gifted Children
101 Books for College-Bound Readers
Midway ISD Elementary and Middle School book list for gifted readers
Gifted Parenting Support age-appropriate books for gifted reader s (various lists towards the bottom)
Minnesota Council for the Gifted & Talented book list 1
MCGT Books for Precocious Readers
10+ Picture Books for Gifted Children
Byrdseed’s Recommended Books for Gifted Students
Book list for preteen gifted readers
RFWP’s list of novels about Gifted and Talented Children
Caldecott Medal Winners, 1938-present

There is almost no limit to the number of books your gifted readers can enjoy! Don’t be afraid to explore new genres or styles of books, to allow your child’s imagination to take over. Members of our online community are always sharing their kids’ favorite books, too, so be sure to join the group and stay up-to-date on all of the latest titles. The love of reading in a gifted child is easy enough to encourage, you just have to keep their shelves fully stocked and remember the Reader’s Bill of Rights, made famous by Daniel Pennac:

The right to not read
The right to skip pages
The right to not finish
The right to reread
The right to read anything
The right to escapism
The right to read anywhere
The right to browse
The right to read out loud
The right to not defend your tastes

Don’t forget to share your gifted readers’ favorites in the comments, and happy reading!

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Books for gifted children, their parents, and educators.

When I really began to embrace the fact that I have a child with gifted, talented and advanced learning abilities, I began researching. I didn’t always understand or find exactly what I was looking for but over time I began to have a general understanding of gifted education.

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Books for gifted educators/homeschool parents, books for gifted twice exceptional (2e), books for gifted children, non-fiction, books for gifted learning, language arts.

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13 Ideas to Support your Gifted Students

Korryna Sanchez
March 11, 2022
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Typically, as teachers, we put more time and energy into focusing on the students that have fallen behind or are struggling. That’s where our focus lies, however, that doesn’t mean we ignore our middle-of-the-track or high flyers. Yes, we want to make sure that those struggling students progress. It is also important to spend time with your gifted learners as well to ensure they are challenged appropriately and progress too! So we came up with a list of 13 Ideas to Support your Gifted Students.

As always, we looked to our Fearless Facebook Groups to help us come up with ideas and strategies to make sure ALL of the students in our classrooms are getting the attention and support they need.

Join any of our three groups: Fearless Kindergarten Teachers: Education to the Core Facebook Group, Fearless First Grade Teachers: Education to the Core Facebook Group, or Fearless Second Grade Teachers: Education to the Core Facebook Group if you want more information and ideas to support your Gifted Students. It is also a great place to go if you are looking for feedback on anything else that has to do with navigating your #teacherlife.

Ideas to Support your Gifted Students – 1: iPads

“ Do you have iPads? We have been using Beast Academy in math. It is higher-level thinking and you can pick the topic. I have a couple of mine work on that if we are working on a skill they already mastered.” -Tayler K.

2-“I’m about to introduce author studies to mine.” -Lorren H.

Ideas to support your Gifted Students – 3: Fluency Passages

Try using a higher level Fluency Passage to try and challenge them and provoke more complex thoughts when they are reading text.

4-“I do a book club with a group of 9 kids. They all read the same book. I assign them two chapters a week and q&a worksheets for each chapter. I meet with them once a week for 30 min to review the chapters read. They love it. For math, I teach 2-3 different lessons. While I teach group 1, the other two groups are on computers or at centers. Then group 1 goes and does their independent math worksheet, then I teach group 2, and so on. Group 1 is on level, Group 2 is above grade level by one year and group 3 is above grade level by 2 years. Sometimes I’ll assign my highest group a Khan Academy video to watch before my lesson so we can get through the lesson quicker.” -Tammy Y.

5-“I challenge them throughout the day. During ELA they get more difficult words to sound out, or they become leaders and help students who are at grade level while I help struggling learners. They also get a chance to write multiple sentences versus only one or more complex sentences. In math, they write their own word problems then share them with a group to solve. I sometimes give them higher numbers as well. Always encouraging higher-level thinking through questioning. Remember to give more difficult work, not more work. It would be helpful to collaborate with your gifted teacher if you have one or second grade to see what resources you can share between each other. “ -Aurora M.

6 – “My high learners love games they play with each other on the floor. Racko old game, but good practice with number sense, probability, and strategy. Decks of cards are fantastic for math games for almost every topic. They play quietly while I work with another group. After 1 year of remote the benefits of learning to play cooperatively beginning to show in how they get along.” -Karen L.

Ideas to support your Gifted Students – 7: STEM Challenge Stories

STEM Challenge Stories encourages a growth mindset. The challenges encourage a growth mindset, creative thinking, and inspire students to learn from their successes and their struggles. Challenging your gifted learned to not only do well when they know the answer but also when they do not know the answer is a huge part of supporting your gifted students.

8- “Pull out more advanced work or modify current work to be more challenging. For one student I have gone to the next grade up and borrowed activities to see what he can do. I have one who has become a regular teacher helper. She helps students who are struggling and puts smiley faces on their finished papers that are correct.” -Christina N.

9- “It won’t work for everyone, especially in this covid era but small groups. We do reading in small groups at a grade level. All students are broken up into groups and go to their specific intervention group at the same time. All students work on what they need. I teach writing in two groups. My intervention group and my capable students don’t need to learn to segment but need to learn to compose. I also do math in small groups. I’m teaching the same content but a little differently depending on capability. After guided math small groups my math intervention students get pulled for a group with paras and my more capable students work on a number sense activity.” -Susan T.

10 – “Book clubs! My high flyers read a level K Razz kid’s book about animals. They chose an animal from the book to research. We went to the library and they took out books and I also assigned them books on Epic. They are writing a report and working Inca diorama to present to the class!” -Adela F.

Ideas to Support your Gifted Students – 11: Once Upon A Stem

Once Upon a STEM is fun and great for those gifted students because these activities involve some research and can be done as a self-study activity that gives them the option to go at their own pace and not feel the pressure of trying to finish first or wanting to compare their work to their peers.

12 “Genius hour. They love it, grow reading, writing, speaking, and many other skills. everyone learns through the presentations or sharing of learning. Child driven.” -Joanne S.

13- My students love games and they build so many skills beyond academics, like social and teamwork skills. File folder games are fun!

If you enjoyed some of the 13 Ideas to Support your Gifted Students and want more tips and tricks you can sign up for our free Teaching Tiny Humans Teacher Course, where you will get weekly emails and guidance on how to navigate challenging situations, along with tips, tricks, activity ideas, and freebies to make this school year a success and constantly be honing your skills even if you are not in the classroom.

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Top 10 Books on Giftedness

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1. Bringing Out the Best: A Resource Guide for Parents of Young Gifted Children by Jacqulyn Saunders with Pamela Espelund. Free Spirit Publishing A highly practical book. Gives suggestions for enriching home learning plus advice on choosing preschools.

2. The Survival Guide for Parents of Gifted Kids by Sally Y. Walker. Free Spirit Publishing Good advice written with a sense of humor. I've read it many times over!

3. The Gifted Kids Survival Guide: For Ages 10 and Under by Judy Galbraith. Free Spirit Publishing Written for the younger gifted student, this helpful book explains giftedness clearly. Gives many suggestions to help make the school experience more positive.

4. The Gifted Kids' Survival Guide: A Teen Handbook by Judy Galbraith and Jim Delisle, PhD. Free Spirit Publishing Recently updated, this valuable book covers topics such as how to relate with peers, devising your own curriculum, and college planning. An important chapter covers depression and suicide risks. My own kids have read this.

5. Keys to Parenting the Gifted Child by Sylvia Rimm, PhD. Barron's Publishing Part of the Barron's Parenting Keys Series, this helpful book examines questions many parents of gifted children have, such as when to start school, grade-skipping, and homework habits. Very readable.

6. Perfectionism: What's Bad About Being Too Good? By Miriam Adderholdt-Elliot, PhD. Free Spirit Publishing The title says it all. Though directed towards any perfectionist you know -- older middle-school age and up -- this book will also help parents understand and cope with their own gifted perfectionist child.

7. The Roller-Coaster Years: Raising Your Child through the Maddening yet Magical Middle School Years by Charlene Gianetti and Margaret Sagarese. Broadway Books Though not written specifically for parents of gifted kids, this is a very helpful book for parents of an often overlooked age group. There is also a comprehensive list of resources for every chapter!

8. College Planning for Gifted Students by Sandra L. Berger. The Council for Exceptional Children A book that takes you from choosing middle-school courses to the college-application process. Recently updated, it also includes data on gifted-teen summer programs and state gifted associations.

9. The Over-Scheduled Child: Avoiding the Hyper-Parenting Trap by Alvin Rosenfeld, MD and Nicole Wise. St. Martin's Griffen Press Gifted kids often want to put themselves in too many activities. Though not specifically directed at parents of gifted, this book examines this concern and makes recommendations for putting on the brakes.

10. The Gifted Adult: A Revolutionary Guide for Liberating Everyday Genius by Mary-Elaine Jacobsen, PsyD. Ballentine Books You didn't think you stopped being gifted when you grew up, did you? Insightful writing examines issues that gifted adults may face if they don't successfully incorporate their "differentness" into their personality. Since many parents of gifted kids are gifted themselves, this book is highly recommended.

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6 Picture Books to Inspire Student Writing

Teachers can encourage students to persist through challenges and share their stories by modeling the power of writing using picture books.

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Writing can feel intimidating to students because it involves experimenting, taking risks, and receiving feedback from teachers and peers. To mitigate this apprehension, I’ve found it helpful to share stories of characters who write, allowing students to connect with these writers and learn from them.

Below are picture books that teach the power and purpose of writing, along with ideas for helping elementary and middle school students connect with them.

Using Picture Books to Inspire Students to Write

A Squiggly Story by Andrew Larsen, illustrated by Mike Lowery. When a younger brother wants to write his own story but doesn’t know where to begin, he turns to his big sister, who “loves to write BIG words and little words.” With her advice, the emergent writer learns the tools for crafting a wonderful story, even though he doesn’t know all of his letters or how to craft sentences.

Lowery’s illustrations complement the story, giving students insight into how beginning authors can share their own stories while building their skills. Use this book to encourage students to write about what they know, using emergent writing skills such as drawing symbols or sketches, using initial sounds to represent words or ideas, using punctuation marks to reflect emotion, and/or using scribbles or mock handwriting. (Grades K–2)

Write! Write! Write! , by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, illustrated by Ryan O’Rourke. This anthology comprises 22 poems that are all about writing. Poems that describe the purpose of the various stages of the writing process include “How to Begin,” “Revision Is,” and “Final Edit.”

“Our Alphabet,” “Ideas (Like Peaches),” “Timeline,” “Writing About Reading,” “Writing Is for Everyone,” and “The Pen” describe strategies authors use when crafting poetry. Use the verses in this anthology individually, as a collection of poems, or as reading or writing models demonstrating intentional uses of language. (Grades 1–4)

The Word Collector , written and illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds. This is a story about words. While other children collect coins, stamps, or bugs, Jerome is a word collector. He curates his collection into careful categories based on how they sound, what they mean, and how they make him feel.

When Jerome loses his balance and his words spill out into the world, they become a jumbled pile with no rhyme or reason. That is, until Jerome realizes that the way authors string words together makes meaning and gives them their power and purpose.

This book can help you teach vocabulary, synonyms and antonyms, word families, figurative language, and more. To further experiment and play with language, look with students around your classroom, building, and community for categories of words. You might facilitate a word hunt including some of Jerome’s categories: Words That Catch My Attention, Words That Jump Out at Me, Short and Sweet Words, Multisyllabic Words, Words You Do Not Know, Words That Sound Beautiful When You Say Them, and/or other creative categories you and your students devise. (Grades 2–8)

Milo Imagines the World , by Matt de la Peña; illustrated by Christian Robinson. This text shares the musings and drawings of young Milo as he takes his monthly train ride, observing the people who pass through his subway car. He imagines and draws their worlds in his notebook, making innocent yet pervasive judgments.

When he encounters a boy about his age, he imagines him living a prince-like existence filled with “a butler, two maids, and gourmet chef offering crust-free sandwich squares.” Milo is surprised to see that the boy and his father exit the subway to the same prison where Milo and his sister will be visiting their mother.

Milo Imagines the World asks readers to reflect on the question, “Can we really know someone just by looking at them?” and gives students and teachers an opportunity to think about how writing can help us reflect on our feelings, observe the world around us, and share our ideas about our world. (Grades 3–6)

16 Words: William Carlos Williams and “The Red Wheelbarrow” , by Lisa Rodgers, illustrated by Chuck Groenink. This simple, powerful biography describes the life and times of poet William Carlos Williams—specifically, the evolution of his famous poem “ The Red Wheelbarrow .” The book offers readers a glimpse into his nuanced process and how observation can be a powerful writing tool.

By juxtaposing Williams’s life as a physician with the challenges he faced as an author, you can help students make connections to their own writing experiences and learn simple strategies for gathering writing inspiration from the beauty of everyday surroundings. Ask students to travel to different places in your school or their neighborhood to collect sensory details about what they observe. (Grades 4–8)

How to Write a Poem , by Kwame Alexander and Deanna Nikaido, illustrated by Melissa Stewart. Award-winning authors bring readers on a journey dripping with sensory details, figurative language, clever font choices, line breaks, and white space in this how-to book about crafting poems. It offers a unique model of how students can write procedural poems.

While the genre is typically seen in primary classrooms, asking students to craft how-to poems about more sophisticated topics can be a new and exciting way for them to dip their toes into poetry. Suggested topics might include how to be a good citizen, a caring friend, or a successful author. (Grades 4–8)

Sharing books that connect to the writing process, demonstrate the benefits of writing, and highlight how authors craft stories can show students that writing is worth the risk-taking and challenges they may face in your classroom. Additionally, using these books as springboards that scaffold student writing can be an efficient and effective way to build a community of writers in your classroom.

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