This castle reading response activity can be used as a group book report project for a novel that the whole class has read together, or as an individual student book report project.
It’s a good idea to use these castle templates for a group project for a unit on Fairy Tales.
This Castle Book Report Project contains the following writing components:
- Title Information: Book Title, Author, Genre, Name, and Date
- The King's Vocabulary List: Find 5 words that you are unfamiliar with from your story. Write the word on the first line and the definition on the line that is after it. If you are familiar with all of the words from your story, then choose words that interesting and related to the plot or the characters.
- A Crowning Achievement: Think about something special that a character in the book did and write about that event. This character could have been kind or helpful to someone, brave in a dangerous situation, or achieved a special goal.
- The Castle Dungeon: Think about something that a character in the story did that was wrong or a mistake. Describe why this character should be sent to the castle dungeon. If your book does not have an event like this in it, use your imagination and create something that a character has done.
- An Event to Remember: Think about the most important part, or your favorite part, of the story. Describe this part of the story using descriptive adjectives and colorful verbs.
- Setting: The setting is when and where the story takes place.
- Main Character: Write a description about the main character in your book.
Some of the novels recommended to work with this activity are:
- The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman (Newbery Winner 1987)
- The Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
- The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo and Timothy Basil Ering (Newbery Winner 2004)
- The Sword In the Stone by T. H. White
- Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz (Newbery Winner 2008)
- The Knight at Dawn (Magic Tree House, No. 2) by Mary Pope Osborne and Sal Murdocca
- Haunted Castle on Hallow's Eve (Magic Tree House, 30) by Mary Pope Osborne and Sal Murdocca
- Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones
- Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
I am sure your children will enjoy writing their book reports on these templates. They can write their name and form on each of the flags.
