GREAT READERS!

Your reading log shows what you understand about your reading. You must write two entries responding to 20 minutes (minimum) of reading. Each entry should be a paragraph, using details from the text to support what you write.

The strategies below are ways you can write detailed reading responses.

ANALYZE WHAT YOU READ by:

1.       Describe the characters and how they are similar or different.

2.      Describe a character. What’s their personality? What do they look like?

3.      Describe the setting. Why is it interesting or not interesting?

4.      Did you enjoy what you read today? Why or why not? Give at least two specific examples.

5.      Is there anything you would change about the story? Describe.

6.      Do you have any predictions? What is your prediction and why?

7.      Did the book teach you anything so far? What was it?

8.      Are there any important objects in your story? Describe it.

9.      Were you surprised by anything that happened? Why?

10.  Is there a quote that is interesting? Why is it interesting?

11.   If you see a word you don’t know, write it and look it up in the dictionary. Write the definition, illustrate the word, and use it in a sentence.

12.  Summarize what you read. Give the problem or share the solution (if possible).

CONNECT TO THE BOOK by:
     13. Text to Self: How does the book relate to your life?
     14. Text to text: Does the book remind you of another book you have read? How?
     15. Text to world: Does the test relate to anything in the real world?

INFER WITH THE BOOK by:
     16. What did you figure out from the text and your own ideas that the author didn’t
           exactly state?

CREATING IMAGES WITH THE BOOK by:
     17. Use your senses: What sense(s) helped you create a picture in your mind?

MONITORING UNDERSTANDING by:
     18. What part of the story did you have difficulty understanding? What did you do to
           better understand it?

ASK QUESTIONS by:
     19. Ask three questions about what you read that start with “I wonder…” and answer at least one
          of them from your reading.

DETERMINING IMPORTANCE by:
     20. Think about the main idea of a paragraph. Write the main idea and two important details that
            support it.  Then write down one idea that was interesting, but not important.


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