Reading Resources & Activities

Book Trailers

Book trailers allow students to create video advertisements to entice new readers. These projects ensure that students have a firm grasp on the story's plot, setting, theme and main characters.

Podcasts

Leveraging the recording capabilities of most computers and mobile devices, students could explore the role of tone and sound by creating podcasts in the fashion of old-school radio shows. Using Garageband or any other sound recorder, students can retell portions of stories, complete with background music and sound effects, to demonstrate their understanding of tone, setting and theme, as well as practice their reading fluency.

Choose Your Own Adventure

Students recreate a story as a "choose your own adventure" tale. They have the opportunity to map out not only the original story but also a new one, identifying significant events or images and their impact on the story.