The October Book Report is due on Friay, October 30, 2009.
October Book Report
Genre: Mystery
If you pick up a newspaper you will find it full of mysteries. What better way to report on the mystery
you read than to present it as a newspaper article?
The simplest way to create your newspaper article is to use a large sheet of paper. You can type or
handwrite your headline and story, and glue it into place on your paper. Or if you wish, you can write
directly on the paper.
Be sure to include a “photo” or two that you can create with colored pencils, crayons and/or markers.
Or you could have your family or friends dress up as the characters and photograph them, then glue the
photo(s) onto the paper. BE SURE all your photos have captions.
Your HEADLINE needs to be short, big and bold and it needs to catch the eye of the reader.
In the text of your newspaper article, be sure to include all the important information: who, what, when,
where, and why. Be careful with the “why” part. You don’t want to give away the ending.
Be sure to list yourself as the author of the “article”. You can include a little information about yourself
if you wish.
Have fun and don’t forget to edit for capitalization, punctuation and spelling.
