The topics for a booklet project are limited only by your imagination and those of your students. Determine whether you want to select and assign the topic of the activity yourself or whether you want to allow your students the leeway to choose their own topics. Choose topics from English, reading, science or mathematics. Alternatively, allow students to do a booklet regarding foreign languages or cultures, home economics projects or trips they took over the summer or winter break.
No matter what topic you choose to assign, create a rubric of requirements to be met when the project is completed. Provide clear and detailed guidelines that allow your students to meet your expectations with regard to the quality of the text and images included in the booklet. Determine whether images must be computer generated, clipped from magazines or hand-drawn. Set a specific word count or page count when it comes to the amount of text you expect to see in the completed product.
Consider a wide variety of physical materials for the booklet. Will you be satisfied if some students create their booklets from lined notebook pages, or would you rather they use plain copy paper? You may want to provide your students with heavier quality paper or pages made from card stock to create a booklet that will standup to repeated readings without becoming tattered and torn. Laminated pages or those encased in sheet protectors are additional options.
Set a standard as to how the booklet should be bound. Left to their own devices, students may simply choose to staple the project at the last minute and be done with it. Use a binding machine to bind the booklets with binder combs for a professional look. Alternatively, insist that your students place the pages of their book in a flexible cover equipped with fasteners to hold the pages securely in place.