Reading exercises: Tell me about your book

The following reading exercise suggestions from In the heart of my Home: Tell me about your book:

• Write and tell a friend about the story.
• Make a detailed map of the setting of the book.
• Did something really catch your attention? Want to research it further?
• Write a letter from the main character to you.
• Choose a character you’d like to have as a friend. Write him or her a letter.
• Tell why it would (or wouldn’t) make a great movie.
• Describe an incident from it as though you were an on-the-scene TV reporter.
• Illustrate w/drawings or photos
• Explain its funniest (or saddest or most exciting) incident.
• Make a new book jacket for the book
• Write 3 paragraphs in a diary as if you were your favorite character.
• Design and draw costumes for some of the characters.
• Write a biography of one of the characters.
• Write a letter to the editor about an issue in the book.
• Draw it into newspaper cartooning squares.
• Pretend a character had made an important decision differently. Write a new ending.
• Make a list of facts you learned in the book
• Write an Amazon review.
• Compare the book to the movie version
• Write a letter to the author