What is Chapter Book Challenge?
Chapter Book Challenge is one of the enrichment ideas for reading, similar to writing traditional book reports, but used for more challenging books. Students are reading chapter books throughout the week, and they may not always finish them in time to turn in a book report on Friday. With Chapter Book Challenge, students receive an activity sheet for alternative book reports that looks like a tic-tac-toe board. In each tic-tac-toe square, there’s an activity to do with a chapter book such as, “Write a paragraph and predict what will happen in the next chapter. Support your answer with events in the story.” The board could also contain creative book reports such as “Write a letter to your favorite character.” or “Draw a picture of the setting, and write a four-line poem about it.” On Thursday evening at home or on Friday during school, your students in the Chapter Book Challenge program would complete one of the tic-tac-toe square activities and turn it in INSTEAD of doing a traditional
