Writing

=Writing= Make a brochure in MS Word - Just replace the clipart and text to make your brochure. Write in a shape. Go ahead and type a story in your word processor. Select and copy your text. Next, go to this website and paste in your text. You can make waves, spirals, or hearts. Give it a try. @http://www.festisite.com/text-layout/ =Interesting ways to do a book report=
 * 1) Present an oral report of the book.
 * 2) Give a written synopsis.
 * 3) Write about the most interesting part of the book.
 * 4) Tell about the most important part.
 * 5) Write about the most important part.
 * 6) Read interesting parts of the book aloud.
 * 7) Describe what you liked or disliked about some of the characters.
 * 8) Dramatize a certain episode.
 * 9) Demonstrate something you learned.
 * 10) Make a peep box of the most important part.
 * 11) Design a book jacket with an inside summary of the book.
 * 12) Build a scale model of an important object of the book.
 * 13) Draw a clock showing the time an important event occurred.
 * 14) Create another ending for the story.
 * 15) Make up a lost or found advertisement for a person or object mentioned.
 * 16) Make a picture book of the main events in the story.
 * 17) Illustrate the most important part of the book in a “picture story.”
 * 18) Paint a mural of the story or parts of it.
 * 19) Do a watercolor picture.
 * 20) Draw or paint the main character from the book.
 * 21) Compare this book with another you read on a similar subject.
 * 22) Produce a movie of the story.
 * 23) Gather a collection of objects described in the story.
 * 24) Make a collage.
 * 25) Put together a three-dimensional scene about the book.
 * 26) Create a puppet show with stick puppets.
 * 27) Devise a poster to advertise the book.
 * 28) Give a pantomime of an important part of the book.
 * 29) Present a pantomime or a guessing game.
 * 30) Read from your book orally while others pantomime the action.
 * 31) Use a map to show routes taken by characters in the story.
 * 32) Draw a map showing where the story took place.
 * 33) Tell about the author and the illustrator.
 * 34) Write a brief biography about the author.
 * 35) Give a “chalk talk.”
 * 36) Make characters for each scene in a story to use in a flannel board story.
 * 37) Construct a mobile to illustrate your book.
 * 38) Conduct a scientific experiment associated with your reading.
 * 39) Tape record an play back a portion of the story.
 * 40) Make a diorama.
 * 41) Do a soap or balsa wood carving.
 * 42) Design and make stand-up characters.
 * 43) Compose a poem about the story.
 * 44) Tell a story with musical accompaniment.
 * 45) Send a letter to a friend to spread the good word about your book.
 * 46) Write letters as if one character was corresponding with another.
 * 47) Design a costume for one or more of the characters.
 * 48) Point out parts in the book to show a character has changed.
 * 49) Write a letter to one of the characters.
 * 50) Tell what you would have done had you been one of the characters in the same situation.
 * 51) Make up a conversation between two characters in the story.
 * 52) Imagine a conversation between yourself and a character.
 * 53) Draw a picture for the ending of the story and think of a title for it.
 * 54) Choose two characters and illustrate a meeting between them.
 * 55) Make up a limerick or riddle about the story.
 * 56) Prepare a story sequence chart with illustrations.
 * 57) Write a play about one of the characters that is in trouble.
 * 58) Prepare a newspaper article, including headlines, about a character’s activities.