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.