Simply Language Arts

Alternative Book Reports

Alternative Book Reports

If you have been following us on our Facebook Page or Instagram, you have seen the progression of adding the Alternative Book Report Resources to our Printables page. Since all nineteen of them are finally complete, I figured this labor of love was owed its blog post to introduce them more officially. About two-three years ago, I began creating these alternative book reports for our big girls. We used them for about a year, so I had them all created, but they lacked rubrics and things to enhance them beyond our personal use. I put out a few for sale last year when I put out our Christmas School Units, and they started to sell here and there. I then set out at the beginning of this year to complete them all for sale and create a Bundle of them.

Alternative Book Reports

Alternative Book Reports

Book reports make some students, even my oldest girls, cringe in fear.

A few years ago, I created book lists and alternative book reports to encourage reading books outside our curriculum and introduce some literary analysis-type things they hadn't had before. Reading definitely took off for both of them, and the girls seemed to enjoy the alternative book reports.

We didn't do book reports this year and switched to summary pages instead. These took less time and went over a bit better. I have been using the summary pages to check in on their reading comprehension of their readers this year.

So, within the Simply Language Arts umbrella of things, you will begin seeing these alternative book reports and summaries available for purchase.

Simply Language Arts Lessons

Simply Language Arts Lessons

With this year's Christmas School up and ready for purchase, I have shifted my focus back to creating things for language arts lessons. Formally known here as Beyond Literature, I am rebranding it Simply Language Arts so as not to be confused with another curriculum by that name and also to be able to expand into things besides literature.