Caterpillars and butterflies

This book report focuses on colorful writing. First, students have to find examples of the author using colorful verbs and adjectives in their book. Then, they have to write a colorful description of the main character and explain why the plot of this book is colorful and interesting. Traditionally, requiring students to find examples of verbs and adjectives in a book is a task that most students find quite boring. Before students start this task, they are given example sentences of descriptive verbs and adjectives on their first draft worksheets.

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This Caterpillar Book Report Project is divided into four writing sections:

• Section 1 - Colorful Verbs: Students find examples of sentences that contain colorful verbs in them.
• Section 2 - Colorful Adjectives: Students find examples of sentences that contain colorful adjectives in them.

             Section 3 - Colorful Character: Students write a description for the main character and try to use colorful adjectives and verbs in their writing.

• Section 4 - Colorful Plot: Students explain why the plot of this book is colorful (interesting) and why they recommend that other students read this book.
• Caterpillar Head and Feet: Title of book, author, genre, student name, and date.

These first draft worksheets contain example sentences using colorful verbs and adjectives for the students to read before they try to find examples of these parts of speech in their own book.  These ones are based on the book THE TWITTS, by Roald Dahl.

Here is a set of templates to assemble the caterpillar. Of course, you can adapt each part of the caterpillar according to what you want your students to work on. These templates can be adapted as follows:

Head: the same –> TITLE / first circle: –> setting and characters / second circle:—> Plot / third circle: :—> resolution and conclusion  and the last body part would be for the illustration.

These caterpillar and butterfly book report projects are identical
to each other in all of the written responses. The only difference
is the shape of the butterfly and caterpillar templates.
These identical projects will look great displayed together in a spring display!

The Butterfly book report has exactly the same content, only the shape and the assembling instructions are different.( see above)

I hope you enjoy these two projects! Send pictures if you use them in your class! I hope you find this helpful and inspiring.