Creative Novel Study: Puzzle
Creative Novel Study: Puzzle
Students choose a novel that is appropriate to their reading level (teacher-approved). They read it in
ELA/during DEAR time. I set a date that they needed to be finished reading by so they could estimate
where they needed to be at by the end of each week. When they finished reading, they used Bristol
board to create a “puzzle” for their novel. Each piece of the puzzle contained a written description of
information. On the opposite side, students draw a different cover for their novel that shows an
important event or setting. You can upload the picture to a website to create it as an online puzzle for
friends to complete! After, I had them cut the actual Bristol board into the 6 puzzle shapes, as you can
see in the examples I included on the subsequent pages.