This is a fun idea to display your students' book reports, and encourage reading at the same time! In this online lesson, children use special markers to actually draw their book report on the windows of the library or classroom. Also...

Great printable page that helps students write a mystery book report form. Calls attention to characterization and clues.

Great printable resource to help students write a report on a biography. Touches on major elements and encourages personal reflection.

Just as the title claims, here are fifty different ways to respond to a book. Most can be adapted to all grade levels.

This page, which is provided for by the Indiana University, gives good information to help in writing book reviews. It tells you what to look for when reading, how to write, and provides a sample book review.

Advice for writing book reports.

This is a great three-page printable resource to help middle school students write a report on a biography. Touches on six questions to derive at elements of the biography. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]

This lesson discusses how to select a book for a book report. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Book Reports: Choosing a Book."

This lesson goes over how to organize a book report.

This lesson introduces book reports and the goals of a book report.

Comic frames are traditionally used to illustrate a story in a short, concise format. In this lesson, students use a six-paneled comic strip frame to create a story map, summarizing a book or story that they have read. Each panel retells...

After reading independently a novel or biography, students in this creative writing activity demonstrate their understanding of characterization and point of view by creating the main character's personal scrapbook.

Learn how your computer can help you write a book report, from the outline to the final draft.

Great printable form to help students write an informational book report. Includes space for new vocabulary words learned and other information retained from the work. Requires Adobe Reader.

After sharing Margie Palatini's charming "bad-situation-that-only-gets-worse tale", Tub-boo-boo, writers will plan a story about a humorous household accident that gets worse before it gets better. Borrowing Palatini's exciting idea from...

Investigate rubric files for book reports, multimedia projects, and the like can be downloaded at this site for assessment in your classroom.

Investigate rubric files for book reports, multimedia projects, and the like can be downloaded at this site for assessment in your classroom.

Use this book review template to help students communicate what they have read in a more efficient manner. Other ideas for its use are provided.

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.

Questions about weather clear up when students use what they learned from their books to create a presentation to share with the rest of the class.

Adapted from a lesson in the book 51 Wacky We-Search Reports by Barry Lane, this lesson asks students to read several recipes to gain an understanding of how they are written and the types of words they use. Then students demonstrate...

This study tutorial shows how to do an "approach paper" concerning novels read in class. This web page explains the assignment and offers a sample approach for the novel To Kill a Mockingbird.

Good printable worksheet that helps learners complete biographical research.

The front cover of the book A. Lincoln and Me by Louise Borden.