Explore the parts of book covers and dust jackets with this online guide, designed to allow users to review the content that appears on each portion of these artifacts. Students can use the tool to review the parts of a book cover before analyzing how book covers work or creating their own book covers. The tool can be used as a companion to the Book Cover Creator.

Visit this interactive tool at: http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/bookcover/guide/.

ReadWriteThink Lessons That Use This Tool

Book Report Alternative: Creating a New Book Cover (3-5)
This lesson plan invites students to critically observe book covers and dust jackets and learn more about what they include. Students are then given the opportunity to recreate a cover or a dust jacket for a book and compose an accompanying rationale for the changes they make.

Book Report Alternative: Hooking a Reader with a Book Cover (6-8)
In this lesson, students select a book to read based only on its cover art. After reading the book, they analyze the cover and use an interactive tool to create a new cover for it.

Exploring Irony in the Conclusion of All Quiet on the Western Front (9-12)
After reading All Quiet on the Western Front, students discuss the novel’s two-paragraph, ironic ending, which repeats the book’s title. They will then compose alternate titles and endings for the book, modeled on the original, and design new book covers that features their new titles.