Money-saving Apps, Cashback Rewards, Coupons, Educator discounts for teachers (plus FREE stuff!)

 Hello my omschooligans! Here at the Omschool, we're thinking about back to school. Teacher Omi has created a guide to saving money on supplies and materials for your classroom or homeschool. I've linked to cost-cutting apps, cashback and rewards programs, coupon extension and educator discount programs. And keep reading for bonus freebies! 

Comparison shopping, cashback apps and rewards programs

Top Cashback & Coupon Browser Extensions

• Rakuten: Best for standard, reliable cashback percentages across thousands of online retail and school supply stores.

• PayPal Honey: Automatically tests and applies working promo codes at checkout for online orders.

• Capital One Shopping: Great for real-time price comparisons to check if art supplies are cheaper at another retailer before you buy.

• TopCashback: Passes 100% of affiliate commissions back to users, making it a strong alternative for high baseline cashback percentages.

• Coupert: An automated coupon tester and cashback tool with a quick rewards turnaround cycle.

• Swagbucks: Earn cash back and gift cards for online shopping, browsing, and taking short surveys.

• RetailMeNot: A popular destination for crowdsourced coupon codes, printable store coupons, and cash-back offers.

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Mobile Apps for In-Store & Receipt Savings

• Ibotta: Ideal for getting cashback on everyday household essentials, retail goods, and classroom supplies by scanning receipts or linking store accounts.

• Fetch: An effortless rewards app where you simply snap photos of any shopping receipt to earn gift card points.

• Upside: Useful for getting automatic cashback on everyday travel essentials like gas if you are driving to physical stores or supply warehouses.

Shopping sites with educator discounts

• Meijer: Offers a year-round 15% discount on eligible in-store school and home office supplies (including items like paper products, classroom storage, writing utensils, and kids' apparel). To redeem, educators can present a valid school ID at their local customer service desk to receive a paper coupon.

• Staples: Offers periodic in-store educator appreciation discounts (such as 20% off purchases with a valid teacher ID) alongside rotating seasonal welcome offers, free supply kits, or rewards programs. Promotions can vary by location and time of year, so checking local store offers or the Staples app is recommended.

• Scholastic: Provides a 10% welcome discount for new educators who sign up for an account on the Scholastic Teacher Store (valid for purchases up to $500). Teachers also gain access to ongoing classroom rewards, special book collection sales, and recurring promotional discounts like bulk paperback deals. 

• Michaels: Offers a 15% discount on your entire purchase, including sale items, for verified educators (online and in-store via Michaels Rewards).

• JOANN: Provides a 15% teacher discount via a Teacher Rewards program, which covers craft supplies, fabrics, storage solutions, and classroom decor. It is available to verified K-12 teachers, higher-education staff, and authorized homeschool educators.

• Blick Art Materials: Features a Preferred Customer Program for art educators that provides a 10% discount on art supplies, paper, and classroom materials.

• Office Depot / OfficeMax: Offers a "Give Back to Schools" program where schools receive 5% back in credits for qualifying supplies when teachers link their school ID at checkout, alongside periodic high-value teacher coupon events (such as 20% back or percentage-off promotions).

• Hobby Lobby: Offers a 10% discount on select merchandise purchased with a church, school, or organizational tax-exempt form or check.

Ways to Save at Amazon and Walmart

• Seasonal Back-to-School Promotions: Walmart occasionally runs limited-time promotions, giveaways, or temporary teacher appreciation events around the back-to-school season, though these vary by year.

• Walmart Business Account: Educators and homeschool organizations can set up a free Walmart Business account, which provides access to quantity/bulk pricing and tax-exempt purchasing capabilities for classroom needs.

• Everyday Savings Tools: Because there is no standard teacher ID discount code, shoppers typically rely on general platform features like Rollbacks, Flash Deals, or stacking cash-back apps (like Ibotta or Fetch) to lower the cost of classroom and art supplies.

• Amazon Business for Education: Educators, schools, and homeschool operations can sign up for a free Amazon Business account. This provides access to quantity discounts (bulk pricing), multi-user accounts, and tax-exempt purchasing options for qualifying educational supplies.

• Amazon Devices (ID.me): Occasionally, specific sub-departments like Amazon Devices offer targeted promotions or small cash-back incentives for verified teachers through verification networks like ID.me, though this doesn't cover general store-wide items.

• General Deal Stackers: Since standard teacher discounts aren't available, maximizing savings on classroom hauls usually relies on combining everyday platform features like Amazon Coupons, daily lightning deals, warehouse open-box deals (Amazon Resale), or stacking external cash-back extensions and apps.

  
  
  

Value-added FREE money-savers

Here is a list of top websites offering free printable lesson plans, activities, and worksheets for classrooms and homeschooling:

• Share My Lesson: A massive, community-driven platform created by educators and specialists, offering thousands of free, peer-reviewed lesson plans, activities, and downloadable resources spanning Pre-K through high school.

• Teacher Planet: Features a robust collection of free lesson plans, customizable templates, rubrics, thematic units, and printable worksheets for K-12 educators.

• Teachers Pay Teachers (Free Section): While known as a marketplace, TPT has a dedicated free section featuring thousands of educator-created task cards, worksheets, and complete lesson plans.

• The Teacher's Guide: Offers a wide variety of free lesson plans, printouts, seasonal thematic units, and early-childhood/elementary resources.

• PBS LearningMedia: Provides standards-aligned lesson plans, interactive media, and printable support materials across multiple subjects with a strong emphasis on STEM, science, and social studies.

• ReadWriteThink: Sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), this site provides completely free, high-quality lesson plans, student interactives, and printable ELA resources.

• Enchanted Learning: Offers thousands of creative craft projects, printable worksheets, and thematic lesson plans designed for early childhood and elementary learners.

• Scholastic: Provides extensive free teacher lesson plans, reading guides, printables, and classroom activity toolkits across all grade levels.

• Free Printable Lesson Plans (this site!): Features a vast selection of Montessori style interactive games, worksheets, crafts, and printable lesson plans for all ages, subjects and content areas. 

• DLTK's Educational Crafts: A favorite resource for educators looking for free, hands-on craft projects, coloring pages, and thematic learning activities that tie directly into early childhood lesson plans.

And the big ta-da freebie

Your best friend for endless free craft supplies, classroom materials and activities is...the recycle bin.

Here's a list of things to save for classroom and homeschool use (washed and clean)

• milk jugs 
• cans (run can opener around edges to smooth, then duct tape to make safe)
• carboard boxes from pasta, cereal, Jello (all sizes)
• spice containers 
• glass jars with lids
• packing materials
• preformed box inserts (from appliances)
• cardboard paper towel and  toilet paper tubes
• oatmeal drums
• colored plastic bags
• paper inserts and envelopes from mailers
• plastic carton from cottage cheese, yogurt, butter, with lids
• pill bottles
• bottle caps
• bottles
• foil and waxed paper scraps
• construction paper scraps
• baby food jars
• plastic trays and baskets
• corks and milk rings
• bread tags and bread bags
• twist ties
• plastic bags
• paper bags

Found household objects to save

• fabric scraps
• yarn and ribbon
• wrapping paper
• bows
• fake feathers 
• silk flowers 
• buttons
• game pieces
• small gumball machine toys
• broken pencils
• crayons
• dried out markers and pens (you never know what clever a kid will reuse this)
• coins
• washers and screws

Free Printable Pizza Math Fractions Lesson Plans with recipes, crafts and activities for Pi Day

Hello my Omschooligans! Today in the Omschool Tree Fort, Teacher Omi here has baked up some pizza math fractions lesson plans, originally written for Pi Day (March 14). But why wait till March? Here are pie fractions activities to teach fun, tasty hands-on math. You'll find math fractions worksheets, games, craft projects, recipes and literature connections for a supreme pizza math unit! 

Pi Day and Pizza Math Overview 

1. Introduction to Pi Day

• Date & Significance: March 14 (3/14) celebrates Pi Day, named after the mathematical constant Pi from the Greek, representing 3.14 (or the fraction 22/7) used in geometry.

• We use Pi to demonstrate the circumference of a circle, so using pies and pizza to show these concepts makes yummy mathematical sense.

 

Pizza math lesson plans with fun baked in! 

Goal: Use hands-on, interactive, and multisensory pizza-themed lessons to help students overcome math anxiety and explore math in lateral thinking ways. 

• Circumference & Pi Craft: The "Pie" Formula Project: Use this activity to explore the significance of Pi. 

  1. Materials Needed

  • A Mini Graham Cracker Crust (or a small round paper plate cut to look like a pie crust)

  • Yarn or String (long enough to wrap around the crust)

  • A Ruler or Measuring Tape (marked in inches or centimeters)

  • Scissors

  • A Marker or Pen

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  2. Step-by-Step Instructions

  • Step 1: Measure the Diameter ($d$)

    • Lay a piece of string straight across the exact center of your pie crust from one edge to the other, passing through the middle.

    • Cut the string to match this exact length. This length represents the diameter ($d$) of your circle.

    • Use your ruler to measure this diameter string and write down the measurement (for example, let's say a standard mini crust diameter is about 4 inches or roughly 10 centimeters).

  • Step 2: Measure the Circumference ($C$)

    • Take a new, longer piece of string and carefully wrap it once all the way around the outer circular edge (the rim) of the pie crust.

    • Cut the string where it meets the starting point. This length is the circumference ($C$)—the total distance around the outside of the circle.

  • Step 3: Discover Pi ($\pi \approx 3.14$)

    • Take your diameter string and lay it end-to-end along your circumference string to see how many times it fits.

    • You will discover that the diameter string fits around the outer edge $3$ full times, with a little bit left over (specifically, about 0.14 of another length).

    • This physical experiment proves the geometric constant: $\pi$ ($3.14$) is the exact multiplier telling us that any circle's circumference is a little more than three times the length of its diameter!

  • Step 4: Math Verification

    • Test the formula mathematically: Multiply your measured diameter by 3.14 ($C=\pi \times d$).

    • Compare your calculated number to the actual measured length of your circumference string to see how close your math craft comes to the true mathematical constant!

2. Preschool Pizza Math 

Teach geometry, shapes, numbers and colors with pizza by making a pizza toppings code. Cut these shapes in these colors to represent different things you add to pizza. 

• Topping Shapes & Colors:

  • Mushrooms: brown semi-circles

  • Onions: White cubes.

  • Sausage: Brown spheres.

  • Pepperoni: Red circles.

  • Colored Peppers: Orange triangles.

  • Pineapple: Yellow rectangles.

  • Cheese: yellow trapezoids and rhombuses.

• Provide each student with an assortment of pizza toppings and a small crust (or tortilla shell). 

• Paper Plate Pizza. Have students cut colored paper shapes. Provide white paper plates. Call out different toppings to add to pizza. 

• Core Concepts: Teach shapes, numbers, and colors by having students discuss topping descriptions, colors, and specific quantities (e.g., placing five circles, two red items, and three green rectangles on a pizza). 

  
  
  

3. Pizza Mathematical Concepts & Lessons

• Sorting and Classifying:

  • Sort pizza toppings into distinct categories by color or shape.

  • Group items by color (e.g., place all orange items in a pile).

  • Sort by food groups (dairy, vegetables, and meat) to create a graph or pie chart.

• Adding and Subtracting:

  • Start by having kids add a specific number of a certain topping, then add more to count the total.

  • Practice subtraction by beginning with larger amounts, taking toppings away, and counting the remainder.

  • Practice skip counting by adding in increments of $2s$, $3s$, $5s$, and so on.

• Fractions:

  • Demonstrate how to divide a pizza into halves, thirds, quarters, eighths, etc.

  • Show equivalencies (e.g., two sixths equals one third; four eighths equals one half).

  • Demonstrate reducing fractions, finding common denominators, and adding/subtracting unlike fractions.

  • Use clean string or yarn to section off reusable pizzas, or utilize a classroom set of pre-divided pizzas.

• Multiplication and Division:

  • Divide pizzas into temporary sections/fractions and distribute toppings one by one per section until all are used (e.g., dividing a pizza into eight sections and distributing 64 pepperoni pieces).

  • Reverse the process for multiplication by placing an equal number of toppings on each section and counting the total.

  • Teach remainders by giving out an uneven number of toppings for kids to divide.

• Decimals:

  • Explain that decimals are fractions with base-ten denominators, where the number of place values after the decimal point determines the denominator (one place = tenths, two places = hundredths, three places = thousandths).

  • Divide a pizza into tenths to teach basic fraction and decimal equivalencies.

• Percentages:

  • Use the pizza as a pie graph where a whole pizza represents 100% and any portion represents a percentage of 100 (e.g., half equals 50% (or .5 or 50/100, one quarter equals 25\%, .25 or 25/100.

  • Teach the relationship between fractions, decimals, and percents (percents are fractions with denominators of 100; decimals are percent without the decimal point, such as 37\% being 0.37 or 37/100).

• Ratios and Proportions:

  • Teach that proportions are fractions (e.g., a proportion of 3 to 10 means three parts out of ten total parts).

  • Teach ratios as comparisons (e.g., a classroom boy-girl ratio of 5:6 means five boys for every six girls).

  • Apply this to pizza by creating pizzas with specific ratios, such as a 3:10 pepperoni ratio or a 2:3 ratio of green peppers to mushrooms.

4. Conclusion & Benefits of Hands-On Learning

• Party Celebration: Once lessons are completed, let students customize their pizzas to taste (removing ingredients they dislike) and enjoy a Pi Day pizza party.

• Special Education & Accessibility: Hands-on, multisensory (smell, touch, taste) lessons make content approachable for special education teachers working with:

  • LD (learning disabled) students.

  • ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) students.

  • CI (cognitively impaired) students.

• General Effectiveness: Interactive learning with food works better for all students because it is real-life, practical, and fun.

• Behavior & Receptivity: Kids often act up when hungry and behave better after eating a healthy snack, making food-based lessons easier to visualize and improving learning receptivity. 

 Recipes and snack crafts for pie math fun

English Muffin "Fraction" Pizzas: Give each child a split English muffin (or a small round tortilla) to serve as a whole circle. Have them use a butter knife or pizza cutter to slice it into halves, quarters, or eighths, and then practice putting the pieces back together to understand parts of a whole before adding their sauce and cheese.

Apple Wedge Fractions: Slice apples into halves or quarters, and have kids use cream cheese or peanut butter as "glue" to reassemble the apple on a paper plate, counting how many wedges make up the whole apple.

Cheese and Cracker Geometry & Graphs: Provide square crackers, round crackers, and triangular cheese slices. Kids can practice geometry by identifying shapes and matching sides, or arrange them into rows to create edible bar graphs and practice simple fractions based on topping ratios.

Celery "Log" Fractions & Counting: Spread cream cheese down the center of celery sticks and let kids arrange raisins or dried cranberries in a straight line. They can then slice the celery log into equal segments to practice division and fraction counting (e.g., cutting a log into 4 equal pieces where each piece represents 1/4 of the whole).

Teacher Omi's Homemade Pizza Recipe

Yield: 1 Family-Size Pizza | Prep time: 30 Mins + Rising

1. Pizza Dough Ingredients

• Warm Water: 1 1/3 cups (warm to the touch)
• Active Dry Yeast: 1 packet (2 1/4 teaspoons)
• Sugar or Honey: 1 teaspoon
• Bread Flour or All-Purpose Flour: 3 1/2 cups
• Olive Oil: 2 tablespoons (plus extra for the bowl)
• Salt: 1 teaspoon

2. Sauce & Variety of Toppings

• Sauce: 1 cup seasoned tomato puree
• Cheese: 2 cups shredded mozzarella
• Pepperoni: Red round slices
• Mushrooms: Brown semi-circles
• Onions: White diced cubes
• Peppers: Orange & green triangles

3. Step-by-Step Instructions

1. Activate Yeast: Mix warm water, yeast, and sugar in a small bowl. Let sit for 5 minutes until frothy.
2. Make the Dough: Combine flour and salt in a large bowl. Stir in the yeast mixture and olive oil until a dough forms.
3. Knead & Rise: Knead on a floured surface for 5-7 minutes. Place in an oiled bowl, cover, and let rise for 1 hour.
4. Assemble & Bake: Roll out the dough onto a pan, spread tomato sauce, add cheese, and customize with your favorite toppings. Bake at 450°F (230°C) for 12-15 minutes until golden brown!

Sir Cumference Book Series Bibliography

Author: Cindy Neuschwander | Illustrator: Wayne Geehan

Featured Math Adventure Books

• Sir Cumference and the First Round Table (1997) – Introduces geometry, shapes, and the concept of a circular table.
• Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi (1999) – Explores the measurement of circles and the constant Pi ($3.14$).
• Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland (2001) – Focuses on angles, degrees, and protractors.
• Sir Cumference and the Isle of Immeter (2006) – Explores the concepts of area and perimeter.
• Sir Cumference and All the King's Tens (2009) – Teaches place value and counting by tens.
• Sir Cumference and the Viking's Map (2012) – Explores coordinate planes, mapping, and directions.
• Sir Cumference Gets Cálculo! (2019) – Introduces early calculus concepts through fun medieval problem-solving.

Teacher Omi's Homemade Pizza Recipe

Yield: 1 Family-Size Pizza | Prep time: 30 Mins + Rising

1. Pizza Dough Ingredients

• Warm Water: 1 1/3 cups (warm to the touch)
• Active Dry Yeast: 1 packet (2 1/4 teaspoons)
• Sugar or Honey: 1 teaspoon
• Bread Flour or All-Purpose Flour: 3 1/2 cups
• Olive Oil: 2 tablespoons (plus extra for the bowl)
• Salt: 1 teaspoon

2. Sauce & Variety of Toppings

• Sauce: 1 cup seasoned tomato puree
• Cheese: 2 cups shredded mozzarella
• Pepperoni: Red round slices
• Mushrooms: Brown semi-circles
• Onions: White diced cubes
• Peppers: Orange & green triangles

3. Step-by-Step Instructions

1. Activate Yeast: Mix warm water, yeast, and sugar in a small bowl. Let sit for 5 minutes until frothy.
2. Make the Dough: Combine flour and salt in a large bowl. Stir in the yeast mixture and olive oil until a dough forms.
3. Knead & Rise: Knead on a floured surface for 5-7 minutes. Place in an oiled bowl, cover, and let rise for 1 hour.
4. Assemble & Bake: Roll out the dough onto a pan, spread tomato sauce, add cheese, and customize with your favorite toppings. Bake at 450°F (230°C) for 12-15 minutes until golden brown!

Teacher Omi's Story Corner

Book selections for literature based math lessons. 

Sir Cumference Math Adventure Series

• Sir Cumference and the First Round Table (1997) – Cindy Neuschwander (Introduces geometry, shapes, and the concept of a circular table).

• Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi (1999) – Cindy Neuschwander (Explores the measurement of circles and the constant Pi).

• Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland (2001) – Cindy Neuschwander (Focuses on angles, degrees, and protractors).

• Sir Cumference and the Isle of Immeter (2006) – Cindy Neuschwander (Explores the concepts of area and perimeter).

• Sir Cumference and All the King's Tens (2009) – Cindy Neuschwander (Teaches place value and counting by tens).

• Sir Cumference and the Viking's Map (2012) – Cindy Neuschwander (Explores coordinate planes, mapping, and directions).

• Sir Cumference Gets Cálculo! (2019) – Cindy Neuschwander (Introduces early calculus concepts through medieval problem-solving).

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Children's Books About Fractions & Pizza Math

• Full House: An Invitation to Fractions (1998) – Stuart J. Murphy (Uses a strawberry inn and a growing number of guests sharing snacks to teach basic fractions).

• The Doorbell Rang (1986) – Pat Hutchins (A classic story about sharing cookies evenly among friends as more guests arrive, perfect for division and fractions).

• Apple Fractions (2002) – Jerry Pallotta (Uses apples sliced into halves, quarters, and eighths to make learning fractions visual and hands-on).

• Fraction Fun (1996) – David A. Adler (Uses everyday objects like pizzas and candy bars to explain parts of a whole).

• Pizza Party! (2017) – Grace Maccarone (A fun, early-reader book featuring sharing and dividing pizza slices).

Free printable reading response journal activities for reader's workshop or book club

Hello my Omschooligans! Are you looking for summer enrichment or reading club activities or gearing for back to school reading lesson plans? Here are the Omschool Tree Fort, we are lifelong, year-round learners so we have you covered either way! Here's a unit of ELA English Language Arts lesson plans featuring reading response journal lessons and book report alternatives. These work best as group reader's workshop activities. They also work well for writer's workshop prompts. 

Literature Reading Response Journal Rubric

Here's a template to make student reading response journal you can use in upper elementary, middle school and high school lesson plans. This is perfect for homeschool and homework. 

• Give each student a single subject notebook (wireless notebooks work best). 
• Use the same one for all lessons or start a new one for each unit or book genre study. In middle and high school, students should make separate response journals for longer books and more comprehensive literature studies. 
• All written assignments are completed in this notebook (except a final project see example listed below as "book report alternatives."). 
• Create a blocked calendar chart, like a bingo card, with 5 columns and 5 rows of squares. 
• Label each column with one of these five main components of ELA curriculum: 
• reading
• writing
• speaking
• listening 
• multisensory response. 
• Label rows with higher order thinking skills (HOTS): 
• Recall/Comprehension
• Analysis (structure)
• Applications (text to text, text-to-life connections)
• Synthesis (text to new use)
• Evaluation (thoughts, feelings, opinions, rationale)
• Write 25 literature response activities for a month or of assignments. 
• List one assignment per box. 
• Leave room to write in specific assignment instructions and notes. 
• Tailor activities to state objectives, and student ability.
• Photocopy (students complete similar activities for each book or genre studied). 
• Attach to inside front cover of journal.  

Personalize and individualize to student needs

Make it flexible enough for special needs accommodations and student learning styles. 

• Give options. Let students choose 22 out of the 25 activities and do the last three for extra credit if desired. 
• Students may complete assignments in any order. 
• They can double up on slower days and skip assignments on busier days. 
• Each assignment should take 30 minutes to complete
• two paragraphs of writing 
• or 30 minutes of reading, speaking and listening. 

Organization and management

• Assignments are completed in the notebook, labeled according by chosen activity and dated.
• Teacher initials completed activities in each box and note the points (in pen). 
• Make notes or correction on the response page. 
• Keep copies of each students chart for your records or keep digital copies. 
• Each activity is worth 30 points: 
• 18 points for content and quality
• 7 for mechanics (spelling, punctuation and grammar)
• 3 for neatness/clarity
• 1 for being on time (calculated at the end of the month) 
• 1 for proper labeling. (name, date, class, period),

Reading Response activities 

Here are  over 25 reading response activities based on ELA model of of reading, writing, speaking, listening and multisensory response. Students complete response activities using HOTS (higher Order Thinking Skills: Recall/ comprehension, Analysis, Application, Synthesis, Evaluation. Write activities in a blocked chart attached to a single subject notebook. Students complete in the notebook. Activities cover spelling, grammar and mechanics objectives too. Here is a sample chart followed by a list of additional reading response activities. 

HOTS Level	Reading	Writing	Speaking	Listening	Multisensory Response
Recall / Comprehension	Define 10 new words from reading.	Write a book review.	Tell a friend 10 details about your book.	Listen to another classmate and ask 5 questions.	Draw a picture or symbol to represent 10 new words.
Analysis (structure)	List five symbols from the book.	Write a haiku about the setting.	Perform a short debate with a partner.	Listen to peer presentations and take notes on character traits.	Make paper dolls of 3 characters or a character web.
Applications (text to text, text-to-life connections)	List 10 books, songs, or movies that this story reminds you of.	Write a letter to the author.	Role-play a scene from the book.	Listen to a recorded story and discuss real-world parallels.	Draw a map of the setting or a realtor's description.
Synthesis (text to new use)	Give 10 alternate titles for this book.	Write an alternative ending.	Make a commercial about the book.	Share alternate ideas or endings with a study group.	Make a diorama about a scene or invent a thing to help a character.
Evaluation (thoughts, feelings, opinions, rationale)	What advice would you give to the main character?	Write a short debate between two characters.	What would you do in this situation?	Evaluate a peer's book review or presentation.	Set the story to music (minimum 6 songs) or make a costume.

List of reading response activities

Define 10 new words from reading.

Use 10 new words in sentences.

List two synonyms for each vocabulary word.

List one antonym for each vocabulary word.

Draw a picture or symbol to represent 10 new words.

Define words from teacher list.

Write tour guide of the setting.

Write a realtor's description for setting.

Draw a map of setting

Make up a board game for this book.

Draw a cartoon with 6 frames (or a manga style cartoon) about an event in the story.

Make up an Instagram page for a character.

Make a diorama about a scene from the book.

Write a haiku about the setting.

Make paper dolls of 3 characters.

Make a character web.

Draw a time line or time web to show 10 major events.

Describe main character in 10 adjectives.

Describe setting in 10 adverbs.

Write an Acrostic using a character name.

How are you like _____character?

How are you different from____?

List 10 books, songs or movies or that this story reminds you of?

Tell about any idea in this story that you have heard about in another class.

Write 10 trivia questions from the book.

Tell a friend 10 details about your book.

Listen to another classmate and ask 5 questions.

Draw or make a prop, tool, or artifact from the story.

List 5 websites where you can learn more about a subject you learned about.

What advice would you give to ___?

What would you do in this situation?

Give 10 alternate titles for this book.

List 5 new ideas you got from the book.

Draw a poster advertising the book.

Make a commercial about the book.

Write a book review.

Write an alternative ending.

Write a letter to the author.

Make up a board game based the book. Here's a sample for The Boxcar Children. Keep reading for the printable PDF game board and pieces. 

Make up vocab quiz for this story.

List five symbols from the book.

Make up a costume for ___ (extra points to wear it in class)

Design a book cover.

Set the story to music (minimum 6 line song).

Invent a thing to help_____.

Make a craft project based on book. 

Make up a 'Worst Case Scenario' for a book character.

Role-play a scene from book.

Write a short debate between two characters.

Perform debate with a partner.

Printables for The Boxcar Children game