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 * 1) Give an oral summary of the book.
 * 2) Give a written summary of the book.
 * 3) Tell about the most interesting part of the book.
 * 4) Write about the most interesting part of the book.
 * 5) Tell about the most important part of the book.
 * 6) Write about the most interesting part of the book.
 * 7) Read the interesting parts aloud.
 * 8) Write about a character you liked or disliked.
 * 9) Write a dramatization of a certain episode.
 * 10) Demonstrate something you learned.
 * 11) Make a peep box of the most important part.
 * 12) Paint a mural of the story or parts of it.
 * 13) Paint a watercolor picture.
 * 14) Make a book jacket with an inside summary.
 * 15) Make a scale model of an important object.
 * 16) Draw a clock to show the time when an important event happened and write about it.
 * 17) Write another ending for the story.
 * 18) Make up a lost or found ad for a person or object in the story.
 * 19) Make up a picture story of the most important part.
 * 20) Draw a picture story of the most important part.
 * 21) Compare this book with another you have read on a similar subject.
 * 22) Write a movie script of the story.
 * 23) Gather a collection of objects described in the book.
 * 24) Draw or paint pictures of the main characters.
 * 25) Make a list of words and definitions important to the story.
 * 26) Make a 3-D scene.
 * 27) Create a puppet show.
 * 28) Make a poster to advertise the book.
 * 29) Give a pantomime of an important part.
 * 30) Use a map or time-line to show routes or times.
 * 31) Make a map showing where the story took place.
 * 32) Tell about the author or illustrator.
 * 33) Make a flannel board story.
 * 34) Make a mobile using a coat hanger.
 * 35) Give a chalk talk about the book.
 * 36) Do a science experiment associated with the reading.
 * 37) Tape record a summary and play it back for the class.
 * 38) Make a diorama.
 * 39) Make a seed mosaic picture.
 * 40) Make a scroll picture.
 * 41) Do a soap carving of a character or animal from the story.
 * 42) Make a balsa wood carving of a character or animal from the story.
 * 43) Make stand-up characters.
 * 44) Make a poem about the story.
 * 45) Write a book review.
 * 46) Books about how to do something- classroom demonstration - the directions can be read aloud.
 * 47) Write the pros and cons (opinion) of a book after careful study.
 * 48) If a travel book is read- illustrate a Travel Poster as to why one should visit this place.
 * 49) A vivid oral or written description of an interesting character.
 * 50) Mark beautiful descriptive passages or interesting conversational passages.
 * 51) Tell a story with a musical accompaniment.
 * 52) Make a list of new and unusual words and expressions.
 * 53) A pantomime acted out for a guessing game.
 * 54) Write a letter to a friend about the book.
 * 55) Check each other by writing questions that readers of the same book should be able to answer.
 * 56) Make a time-line for a historical book.
 * 57) Broadcast a book review over the schools PA system.
 * 58) Research and tell a brief biography about the author.
 * 59) Make models of things read about in the book.
 * 60) Make a colorful mural depicting the book.
 * 61) A picture or caption about laughter for humorous books.
 * 62) Compare one book with a similar book.
 * 63) Think of a new adventure for the main character.
 * 64) Write a script for an interview with the main character.
 * 65) Retell the story to a younger grade.
 * 66) Choral reading with poetry.
 * 67) Adding original stanzas to poetry.
 * 68) Identify the parts in the story that show a character has changed his attitudes or ways of behavior.
 * 69) Sentences or paragraphs which show traits or emotions of the main character.
 * 70) Parts of the story which compare the actions of two or more characters.
 * 71) A part that describes a person, place or thing.
 * 72) A part of the story that you think could not have really happened.
 * 73) A part that proves a personal opinion that you hold.
 * 74) A part which you believe is the climax of the story.
 * 75) The conversation between two characters.
 * 76) Pretend you are the main character and retell the story.
 * 77) Work with a small group of students. Plan for one to read orally while the others pantomime the action.
 * 78) Write a letter to one of the characters.
 * 79) Write a biographical sketch of one character. Fill in what you don't find in the text using your own imagination.
 * 80) Write an account of what you would have done had you been one of the characters.
 * 81) Construct a miniature stage setting for part of a story - use a small cardboard box.
 * 82) Children enjoy preparing a monologue from a story.
 * 83) Marking particularly descriptive passages for oral reading gives the reader and his audience an opportunity to appreciate excellent writing, and gives them a chance to improve their imagery and enlarge their vocabulary.
 * 84) The child who likes to make lists of new unusual and interesting words and expressions to add to his vocabulary might share such a list with others, using them in the context of the story.
 * 85) Giving a synopsis of a story is an excellent way of gaining experience in arranging events in sequences and learning how a story progresses to a climax.
 * 86) Using information in a book to make a scrapbook about the subject.
 * 87) A puppet show planned to illustrate the story.
 * 88) Children reading the same book can make up a set of questions about the book and then test each other.
 * 89) Biographies can come alive if someone acts as a news reporter and interviews the person.
 * 90) Preparing a book review to present to a class at a lower level is an excellent experience in story- telling and gives children an understanding of how real authors must work to prepare books for children.
 * 91) Have the students do an author study and read several books by the same author and then compare.
 * 92) Cutting a piece of paper in the form of a large thumbnail and placing it on the bulletin board with the caption Thumbnail Sketches and letting the children put up drawings about the books they've read.
 * 93) Stretch a cord captioned A Line of Good Books between two dowel sticks from which is hung paper illustrated with materials about various books.
 * 94) Clay, soap, wood, plaster, or some other kind of modeling media is purposeful when it is used to make an illustration of a book.
 * 95) Constructing on a sand table or diorama, using creatively any materials to represent a scene from the story, can be an individual project or one for a group.
 * 96) A bulletin board with a caption about laughter or a picture of someone laughing at excerpts from funny stories rewritten by the children from material in humorous books.
 * 97) Visiting the children's room at the public library and telling the librarian in person about the kinds of books the children would like to have in the library.
 * 98) Video tape oral book reports and then have the children take turns taking the video home for all to share.
 * 99) Write to the author of the book telling him/her what you liked about the book.
 * 100) Be Book Report Pen Pals and share book reports with children in another school.