Drawing, painting and technology activity ideas
Drawing and other visual activities can often become ‘busywork’. To avoid this being the case, pick activities that require students to respond to the details of the text. Here are some examples:
- Create a map of locations.
- Create a comic strip or story board of a key sequence.
- Using speech bubbles, draw a conversation between two characters at a particular point in the story. Older students could add thought bubbles to suggest what characters might be thinking.
- For non-fiction texts, students can turn information into a flowchart or sequence of instructions.
- Make a poster to advertise the book with eye-catching layout and presentation.
- Use video and audio recording to make a 20 second commercial advertising the book.
- Paint a descriptive scene or character from a book.
- Design and make a new fold over book cover to attract potential readers.
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