Children will take a piece of paper and fold it accordion style. Each page of the book will present a new concept in the class. The students will analyze character, plot, conflict, and other parts of the story on a separate page of the book. Below is an example of how we would have students do the book James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl.

Front Back

Page 1: Front cover, students will decorate a front cover to what they want on it. Students will put the authors name and title of the book on the cover.

Page 2: James Journal in England. Students will read the first few chapters and write about how James feels before the trip. This is a diary entry for the students to make up what they wish would happen.

Page 3:Travel log. This page is for students to keep track of the happenings of the travel. Students may do this on a map, or as a timeline.

Page 4: Back cover. Students will design as they seem fit and place their name on the back to let the teacher know who made the book.

Page 5: Vocabulary. Students will place vocabulary words around a peach. They will find the words in the book and we will look them up as a class.

Page 6: Students will choose one character from the book and write that characters feelings. They are limited that they cannot choose James but any other character will work (Even the Peach).

Page 7: Journal in NYC. Now the trip is over the students can choose a character and tell how the character likes and does in NYC,

Page 8: Summery of the whole story in a short paragraph or so. This is like a book review and report to give your ideas and opinions of the book. They must support their idea though.

Character Books

Students take each character and make a small book to be placed in their larger book as a character summery. This only needs to include about a line or two about the character.