Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Sample Author Study
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an exemplar of the expectations for an independent class project. Each student must study an author and meet the criteria listed on the page.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Writing a Simple Book Report With Your Listening Center
You probably have a listening center in your room. This instructional activity shows your students how to describe the characters and setting in a story after they've listened to the story on tape.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Book Report Alternative: The Elements of Fiction
Analyzing a book takes the form of creating their own when learners complete this activity. The stated goal is to help students "Read like writers." Includes link to a template for student use.
Other
Ten Rhetoric of War Writing Projects
Created by a teacher responding to the events in Kosovo, this list is a great start for a media literacy class project. Good discussion-starting questions are included with each item on the list. Requires some independent research to...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Milly and the Macy's Parade
Resource guides the reader through this great book. Choose from different categories in before, during, and after you read. Take a quiz, create a story map, and write a book report.
TES Global
Blendspace: Research
A nine-part learning module with links to images, texts, videos, websites, and more to teach students how to write a research paper.