The Wild Robot Novel Study Activity: Roz's Robot Manual Writing Project, Rubric

Bring The Wild Robot to life with Roz’s Robot Manual, a creative novel study project that asks students to think like the engineers who built Roz!

Students will return to the book to research her abilities, challenges, and relationships, then use text details and their own ideas to create an illustrated instruction manual.

Instead of simply describing Roz, students explain how someone could use, care for, and understand her. It’s a purposeful way to practice reading closely, making inferences, and writing clear explanations.

What’s Included

✅ Student project directions

✅ The Wild Robot research sheet for gathering details from the novel

✅ Printable robot manual pages for students to write and illustrate

✅ Roz labeling pages

✅ 100-point project rubric

What Students Will Write About

• Roz’s controls, functions, and special abilities
• Important warnings and safety considerations
• Power and maintenance
• How Roz learns and solves problems
• Rules for interacting with animals
• A problem, its possible cause, and a solution
• Details that help a reader understand Roz as a character

Perfect For

✅ The Wild Robot novel studies

✅ A creative final project or reading response

✅ Practicing text evidence and inference

✅ Informational and explanatory writing

✅ Connecting reading, writing, creativity, and design

Students can draw or add pictures as they build their manuals, giving them a chance to show what they know about Roz in both words and images. The finished project makes a memorable companion to Peter Brown’s The Wild Robot.