Literature Activities - 175
Each activity can be considered individual or group.
- Individual activity is one that you do for yourself.
- Group activity is one you do for yourself and then present it to a group.
- Consider story as literature in any media form.
- Read a story, poem, or book to a group.
- Make a scrap book.
- Make a web page.
- Collect articles about a subject or topic.
- Report on a subject or topic.
- Make a book report. Write it or record it.
- Draw a series of pictures to explain a book or story.
- Make a magazine summary. Oral, written, or taped.
- Make a bulletin board.
- Make a mobile.
- Illustrate a story.
- Chart a story or subject.
- Invent a game.
- Web a story or topic.
- Slide show or transparency presentation.
- Demonstration or mini-lesson.
- Skit or play.
- Act out a story or poem.
- Lead a discussion.
- Have a debate.
- Make a diorama.
- Outline a book or article.
- Watch a filmstrip and write a summary, make an outline, a report, or web.
- Make a model of a setting or something from the literature.
- Make a turn box show.
- Write a story or fable.
- Make a crossword puzzle.
- Listen to a tape.
- Draw? a picture of your favorite character.
- Dress as your favorite character and tell about the story, character, or author or read some of the character's best quotes.
- Tell about the most exciting part of a story, book, or video.
- Tell the whole story in a few words.
- Tell the beginning of a book or story to interest others to read it.
- Read or write an interesting excerpt from a book or story.
- Find out something about the author.
- Teach others interesting words you have discovered in the book or make a game from them.
- Before reading a book or story write a story according to what you think will happen because of the title, then read the book, and compare when you're finished.
- Write or record a make believe interview between you and the author, character, characters...
- Write or record an interview with a friend about a book...
- Write a different ending for a book. Explain why yours is better.
- Write another episode, chapter, or sequel.
- Write to the author.
- Write a story to verse.
- Read a biography about the author and then write a story about what it would be like to visit with him or her or...
- Write a weekly column on books.
- Arrange a book or story as a TV program.
- Start a TOP TEN book list.
- Pretend you are a reporter reporting on radio or TV and report on a book or story.
- Choose a scene from the story and act it out.
- Make a hand roll movie of your story.
- Pretend to be a book and tell what is inside your covers.
- Poster to encourage reading.
- Poster to advertise your book.
- Make videotape, movie, filmstrip, or transparencies of your story.
- Make a list of unusual words in your book.
- Write advertisement blurbs for your book.
- Write a telegram.
- Write riddles to play a guessing game based on your book.
- Make a puppet show.
- Dramatize your book.
- Do a dramatic reading.
- Do dramatic reading while others pantomime.
- Make a radio broadcast based on your book.
- Pretend to be the author and tell why you wrote the book.
- Find others that have read the same book and have a panel discussion.
- Make a comic strip of your book.
- Tell humorous incidents in your book.
- Play charades to guess the title of books.
- Write a poem about your book.
- Write a poem about part of your book.
- Make a woodcut depicting a scene in the story.
- Make a game board from a book. Use the setting, characters...
- Write a haiku poem using setting, characters...
- Find examples of personification, similes, metaphors..
- Tell the story using flannel board...
- Write a letter to one of the characters in the book.
- Rewrite a story using antonyms.
- Write a song about a book or story using a known melody.
- Take a field trip related to a book or story.
- Invite the author to visit your school.
- Form a picket line with signs informing about the book.
- Find other books that have the same topic.
- Make a float to represent part of the story.
- Tape part of a book.
- Make a game to match the main idea of several stories with the titles.
- Pretend to publish a book.
- Write a story using characters from a story.
- Compare characters from different stories.
- Play "Hollywood Squares" "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" using questions from books or stories.
- Illustrate a book review.
- Make a book jacket
- Make a mural
- Create a dance
- Draw a map to show the characters travels.
- Draw a life-size figure of a character.
- Make a bookmark using a something from a story.
- Make s diary of experiences.
- Make a quiz show.
- Have a treasure hunt looking for the treasure in a book or story.
- Make a puzzle from a book jacket or illustration of a book or story.
- Stage a meeting of the minds between two characters or authors.
- Write a letter to the librarian to convince him to purchase a book.
- Rewrite a story or book using a different setting.
- Make a crossword puzzle using book terms, characters...
- Make a time line of a story.
- Make a sandwich sign advertising a book or story.
- Make a code and code information about a story or book.
- Make a recipe of a book or for a character in a book.
- Play Concentration matching characters from a book to the title.
- Play Concentration matching characters from a book to authors.
- Make a collage from pictures of the stories written by an author.
- Make an interest center for a book.
- Have a conference with the teacher about a book.
- Make clay figures of characters.
- Make a sculpture of a character.
- Use a scene from a book to write a story and change the setting to 200 years ago.
- Write a newspaper article covering the same events that were in your book or story.
- Make a soap sculpture of something from your story.
- Make a poster titled "One of My Favorite Books ..."
- Make a list of happy words found in your book.
- Make a list of ___ words found in your book.
- Make a notebook of descriptive words.
- Make a thesaurus of words found in books or stories you read.
- If your main character could have one wish what would it be?
- Select a problem from your book and write a Dear Abby! Column.
- Make a travel poster advertising travel in your book.
- Research the author.
- Make a peep-box scene from your book.
- Interview a character in your book.
- Create a dance to tell the story.
- Write a diary as if you were the main character.
- Describe some of the major conflicts in the book. What words were used?
- Make a book wheel for the story.
- Describe the culture in the book.
- Write about what you admire about the main character.
- Write about what you don't admire about the villain of the story.
- How do the characters in the book compare to every day real people.
- Do a chalk talk of the story.
- Make a carrousel of the story.
- Dress dolls as characters in the book and tell or act out the story.
- Make a puppet from the story and interview the puppet.
- Make a table display about the book.
- Do a "This is Your Life!" skit for a biography.
- Read a do-it-yourself book and give a demonstration.
- Have a "come as your favorite character" party.
- Produce a readers' theater (r. t. production notes).
- Decorate a classroom like a book jacket.
- Make a felt or burlap wall hanging of a book scene.
- Construct a table top-village or book scene.
- Create a tissue paper stained glass window of book scene or characters.
- Embroider a scene or character from a book.
- Make a book quilt.
- Decorate a box or wastebasket with a storybook scene.
- Conduct a used book exchange or auction.
- Collect magazine pictures for your favorite poems.
- Make a poem book.
- Illustrate your favorite poems.
- Rewrite an old story as a modern story.
- Make a frieze to illustrate a narrative poem.
- Plan a cooking activity around a book.
- Create an alphabet book with each? letter representing a book character.
- Compile a scrapbook about an author, poet, illustrator.
- Make a comic book to depict a story. Comic Life software is fun to use,
- Arrange a display of artifacts for a book.
- Construct a flip-book for a story.
- Take a survey of favorite books and advertise the results to encourage reading of the most favorite.
- Give a lecture on the art in Caldecott Award Winning Books.
- Find different copies of the same book, even some written in different languages and make a display or...
- Prepare a book of the week display.
- Make a finger play for a story.
- Make a twenty-question game for characters of stories or books.
- Make a story or book web.
- Read several books by the same illustrator and do an art project in the illustrator's style.
- Join a list on the Internet to discuss literature.
- Create a pod cast.ß