GEN:59 ways to tell about books

[Kristel Mayberry <kmayber@OPS.ORG>]

I just found this in my son's backpack and thought someone on this list
might like a copy of it. Sorry I can't provide an author, no credit is
given on his version.

59 Ways to Tell About Books

1. Hold a panel discussion when several students have read the same book
or a group of similar ones.

2. Organize a pro and con panel made up of some students who liked the
book and some who did not. Let one person represent the author. Try for
an impartial chairman.

3. Dramatize an incident or an important character. The student may relate
an incident in the first person.

4. Make radio announcements, student-prepared, to advertise the book.

5. Make individual conferences in which students talk about favorite books
with the teacher.

6.Appoint a committee of pupils who are avid readers to conduct peer
discussions and seminars about books.

7. Hold a mock trial permitting the defendant to tell the story of a book
of his choosing. The class render decision on its merits.

8. Reproduce artist's interpretations of important scenes on slides for
the whole class to enjoy.

9. Make brief oral talks - limit five minutes each at an after-school Coke
party or a meeting of a library club.

10. Get the plot down to a succinct nugget. It takes practice to this in
one paragraph.

11. Conduct dialogs between several students revealing the style and story
of the book.

12. Prepare book jackets that really illustrate the kind of book as well
as the story.

13. Compose a telegram, trying to give the essence of a book in 15 words.
Then expand it into a 100 word "overnight telegram".

14. Try you hand at a publisher's "blurb" to sell the book.

15. Read orally an interesting part, stopping at a strategic point.

16. Make a sales talk, pretending you audience are clerks in a bookstore
and you want them to push a new book.

17. Have questions from the audience, or let three students be
challengers.

18. Make comparisons with the movie and radio versions of the same book.

19. Create a poster advertising the book and maybe others by the same
author.

20. Build a miniature stage setting for part of the story.

21. Design costumes for character - in miniature of life size.

22. Write a book review for a newspaper or magazine, and really send it
for possible publication.

23. Make a rebus of a short story and try it on  your friends.

24. Write a movie script to sell to Hollywood.

25. For a "How to Make" book, bring something you made according to the
directions.

26. If it is a travel book, prepare a travel lecture.

27. Write an original poem after studying a book of poetry for both style
and choice of subjects.

28. After reading a book of poems, learn a verse, or read one to the
class.

29. Tell  your best friend why you did or did not like a book.

30. Explain who the book could be used in social studies or science.

31. Make sketches of some of the action sequences.

32. Describe an interesting character - make her come alive to your
audience.

33. Write or tell a different ending to the story.

34. Write or tell the most humorous incident; the most exciting happening;
the most interesting event; or the part you liked best.

35. Select a descriptive passage and read it aloud to the class.

36. List interesting new words and expressions to add to your vocabulary.

37. Describe a scene t orient your audience - the show it in true Red
Button pantomime style.

38. Write a letter recommending the book to a friend.

39. Give a synopsis of the story, but don't give away the climax.

40. Make a scrapbook suggested by information in the book.

41. Construct puppets and present a show of an interesting part of the
story.

42. If it is a geographical book, make a map, including on it brief
information gathered from the book.

43. Have a friend who has read the story try to stump you with questions.

44. Make a list of facts you learned from reading a factual story.

45. Write questions you think everyone should be able to answer after
reading the book - then try them on others.

46. Dress as one of the characters and act out the part you play.

47. Broadcast a book review on your school P.A. system.

48. Write a note to the librarian suggesting why she ought to recommend
the book to other students.

49. Review the book you read before another class.

50. Look up the biography of the author and tell about his other books.

51. Make a clay, soap, or wood model to illustrate a place in the book.

52. Dress paper dolls as characters in the book, for a bulletin board
exhibit.

53. Prepare a chalk talk, or better still, use an overhead .

54. Do an illustration for the story.

55. Make a mural to illustrate the book - get others who have read it to
help.

56. Build a diorama or table exhibit to represent a part of the story.

57. Rewrite an incident in the book, simplifying vocabulary for a lower
grade.

58. If it is a science book, plan a demonstration of what you learned.

59. If it is a historical book, make a time line, listing events in
sequence.

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                   Kristel A. Mayberry, Information Manager
                   Central High School, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
                     voice:402.557.3316 / fax:402.557.3339
                             e-mail:kmayber@ops.org

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