Book Reports

Please keep track of these dates.  I will remind students of them often to encourage them to be reading and planning ahead.  Students should make use of Library time to read for book reports at well as reading at home.

Below find information about the types of book reports. Examples of different report options will be demonstrated in class prior to report due dates.  

                                                                         September 2026

Dear Parents and Students,     

Below are the dates the book reports are due.  Please mark these on your calendars so we will be ready as the dates arrive.  Students should okay their book with me one week before the date of the report.  When the reports are to be presentations, students should inform me of the project they choose to do by the Monday before the date of the report.  Students are allowed to use each book and project only once.                                                             

Mrs. Olson 

Book Report Due Dates  

    1. Friday, October 23 - Presentation

  2. Friday, December 4 - Presentation

  3. Friday, January 22 - Written 

  4. Friday, March 12 - Conference

5. Friday, April 23 - Presentation

Presentation Book Reports     

Choose one activity for your presentation book report.  If you need help getting paper for your project, please ask.  All presentation book reports need to include your name, the title and author of the book.  They also need to include information regarding the character, setting, and plot of the novel.  You will be graded on this information.  Your grade will also reflect how well your report is organized, presented (including volume, expression, eye contact, and posture), how well you listen to other reports, and neatness.  Some reports may not require anything written, the presenter is expected to be forthcoming with the necessary information in their presentation, this means you need to plan and practice what you are going to say.  Be ready to give your opinion on the novel. 

1.  Do a puppet show about the book.  Choose a main event and perform it. 

2.  Make a mobile about the book.  Include examples of setting, characters, and plot. 

3.  Design and make a board game.  Include information of events, characters, setting, and plot as part of the game as well as directions for the game. 

4.  Make a diorama of the setting or of your favorite scene from the book.  The diorama should be made out of a shoe box to show a three dimensional scene. 

5.  Draw a mural (a large picture containing many small pictures) of characters, setting, or different situations the characters get into. 

6.  Make a collage using newspapers, magazines, etc. to describe the book, setting, and main characters. 

7.  Dress up as your favorite character.  Your appearance must be different from your usual clothing, be ready to explain why your outfit is fitting of the character.  You will be playing the part of your character while you are presenting.  Tell us about your (the character’s) life.   

8.  Create a sculpture of a garbage can.  Fill it with 7 to 10 items that could be found in your main character’s garbage.  Be ready to explain why each piece of garbage was chosen.   

9.   Make a fancy folder for the book you read.  Write the title and author of your book on the front cover along with an illustration.  Write a brief summary of the book on the inside left of the folder.  On the right side include an important event, this may be written or drawn, and your opinion of the book. 

10.  Invent a machine that could have helped a character in your book.  Draw or construct this machine.  Explain how your machine works and how it could have been useful to your character.  Don’t forget to name your machine! 

11.  Make WANTED posters for at least three of your characters.  Include the name of the person who is wanted, who they are wanted by, what they are wanted for, a description of them as well as an illustration, and the reward for their capture.  Make three separate posters, one for each character. 

12.  Develop a news broadcast.  The show should have news of the main event, weather, sports and special features that focus on the information from the book.  Present the broadcast to the class. 

13.  Make a windsock about your book.  Write the title and author on the main part of the windsock along with an illustration.  On the streamers write the main ideas from your book.  You must have 7 to 10 streamers on  your windsock. 

14.  Design a giant postcard, use a scene from your book for the front of your postcard.  On the back side of your postcard write a letter to a friend telling them about your book.  Design a stamp and remember to address your postcard. 

15.  Create a sculpture of a suitcase.  Fill it with 7 to 10 items that you would need to take if you were going on  a trip with the book you have read.  Be ready to explain why each piece was packed. 

16.  Draw a comic strip of the book’s plot or main events.  Include 7 to 10 frames and dialogue. 

17.  Create a cereal box for your book.  The front panel should include the title, author, illustration, and your name.  On the back panel list the story ingredients:  setting, character, and plot.  The side panels should have quotes from the book that will make others want to read it.

Project/Presentation Report Evaluation

Title                                     1                    

Author                                      1                     

Setting                                      1                    

Characters                            1                    

Plot                                           1                    

Clarity                                       4                    

Neatness                                   2                    

Effort                                        3                    

Volume                                1                    

Eye Contact                         1                    

Posture                                 1                    

Listening                                  1                    

Finished Book                          7                     

Total                                         25                  

Written Book Reports      

Choose one activity for your written book report.  Many of the choices have examples to work from.  These examples are in the yellow folders in the classroom.  All written book reports need to include your name, the title and author of the book.  They also need to include information regarding the characters, setting, and plot of the novel.  You will be graded on this information.  Your grade will also reflect how well your report is organized, use of well written paragraphs, sentence structure, and neatness.

1.  Write a news article summarizing the main events in the book. Answer the questions:  who, what, when, where, and why.  Remember to give your article a title. 

2.  Write a letter to a character in the book.  Include remarks about major events, questions about how the character feels, thinks, and questions about the character’s future. 

3.  Write a biography of the main character’s life.  Divide the life of the character into four time periods and include major events in his or her life in each section. 

4.  Write a different ending to the book.  Change how the main characters handled the situation.  Be sure to include details that will tell me about the novel. 

5.  Do research on the author and write a report.  Be sure to include a brief listing of what this book was about. 

6.  Write a comparison of two books by the same author.  Be sure to include detail of how the books are alike and different using setting, characters, and plot. 

7.  Have a character from the book write a letter to “Dear Abby” seeking advice on their problem in the book.  Then write Abby’s response to the letter.  Be sure to include details about setting. 

8.  Write a diary for one the characters in the novel.  Choose 3 important events in the novel.  You will need to tell how the character saw the event, how they felt about it, what they learned from it, and what they felt would happen next.  Remember your writing needs to sound like the character is retelling the events. 

9. Write a reflection about the book.  Include a text to self connection to the story (how you would have felt, how you have been through something similar), a text to world (setting comparisons, past to present, location to a different city, state, country) connection, and a text to text connection. 

10.  Formal/traditional book report.  Include a summary of events of the story.

Written Report Evaluation

Title                                     1                  

Author                                      1                    

Setting                                      1                    

Characters                           1                    

Plot                                           1                    

Clarity                                       3                    

Neatness                                   1                     

Spelling                                 1                    

Sentence Structure                   2                    

Capitalization                        1                    

Punctuation                         1                    

Effort                                    2                     

Rough Draft                             1                     

Finished Book                           7                    

Total                                         25                   

Conference Book Reports      

On the day of conference book reports students will need to be able to tell me the title, author, and genre of the book.  They also need to be ready to give me information regarding the character, setting, plot, and point of view of the novel.  Students will be graded on this information.  The grade will also reflect how well their thoughts are organized and presented.  These reports do not require anything written.  The students are expected to be forthcoming with the necessary information in their conference, this means you need to plan and practice what you are going to say.  Be ready to give your opinion on the novel and why you feel that way.

Conference Report Evaluation

Title                                     1                    

Author                                      1                    

Setting                                      1                    

Characters                           1                     

Plot                                           1                    

Genre                                   1                    

Point of View                       1                    

Clarity                                   4                    

Ability to AnswerQuestions            3                    

Willingness to Expound                 1                     

States Opinion/Why               2                    

Eye contact                               1                    

Finished Book                           7                    

Total                                         25