Holiday book report ideas

Choose 15-20 alphabet books to help give your students examples of how they work around themes. Then ask your students to create their own Book Alphabet based on the book they read. What artifacts, vocabulary words, and names reflect the important parts of the book?

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.

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.

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.