Extensive Reading

Tasks for the Extensive Reading

• 1. Design an advertising campaign to promote the sale of the book you have read. You can include one of the following in your campaign: a poster, a radio or TV commercial, a magazine or newspaper ad.

  2. Create a board game based on the events and characters of the book you have read. By playing the game, members of the class should learn what happened in the book. Your game must include: a game board, clear directions, events and characters from the story on cards or on the game board.

  3. Make a series of five drawings that show five of the major events of the book you have read. Write captions (something relating to the picture) for each drawing so that the drawings can be understood by someone who hasn’t read the book). You can use the site Storyboard That: The World's Best Free Online Storyboard Creator 

  4. Write up an interview with one of the characters in the book you have read. Imagine that this character is being interviewed by a magazine or a newspaper reporter.

  5. Write a letter to a friend about the book you have read. Explain why you liked it or why you didn’t like the book.

  6.  Imagine the author of the book you have read is a good friend of yours. Write out an imaginary telephone conversation between the two of you in which you discuss the book you have read and other things as well.

  7. Make a collage that represents major characters and events in the book you have read. Use pictures and words cut out from magazines in your collage.

  8. Make a comic strip telling the story. It must be at least twelve frames. Show the major events in the plot of the story. Write a caption or use “speech bubbles” so that each frame can be understood.

  9. Pretend you are a character in the book you have read. Write journal or diary entries that show your feelings or ideas about what is happening.

  10. Would you like to have one of the characters in the book as a best friend? If “yes”, explain why, and if “no”, explain why not.

  11. Write a letter from one of the book’s characters to another. Then write a letter from the second character, answering the first letter.

  12.  Write a song or a poem about the book.

  13.  Make up a different ending or beginning to the book you have read.

  14. Write a continuation to the book you have read. It doesn’t have to be very long. Write at least what happened the next day or the night after the book came to an end.

  15. Write a conversation between two or more characters which didn’t take place in the book.

16 . Write a review about the book you have read for a newspaper.