Carlton Hill Primary School

After you have read your book for up to half an hour, pick one of these activities and complete it. You could upload it to the 'My Work' section of your webpage and use the class blog to tell your teacher.

• Write a multiple choice quiz about your book.
• Pick a descriptive word from the text, write it down and use a thesaurus to write down five synonyms for that word.
• Re-read a chapter and pick out 5 tricky words. Find the definition for each word. Use each word in a sentence of your own.
• Draw and label a character or a setting from a description in the book.
• Choose a key moment in the book and change the event. Re-write the following chapter.
• Re-write a chapter as a diary, a play-script or a newspaper article.
• Think of 5 questions you would like to ask one of the characters. Then write their answers as if you were that character.
• Which character in your book are you most like? Explain your answer. 
• Which character in your book are you least like? Explain your answer. 
• Which character in your book would you most like to be? Explain your answer.
• Construct a time line to fit your story. Include all the main events.
• Design a new cover for a book you have read.
• Draw a cartoon strip of the main events from the book.
• Dear author… write a letter to the author of your book. Tell them your opinion of their book and ask them any questions that you would want answering about the book.
• Re-write a part of your book from a different character’s point of view.
• Write a telephone conversation between you and one of the characters from the book.
• Draw a poster advertising the book. Make sure you write on the poster why people should read it.