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Reading Response Journal (Begins in Daybook on pg. 1). Start with a heading. Do not just summarize! Choose one response option and write a paragraph about that. Reading Response Journal. Heading: Title and Author of the book page # where you stopped today. React :
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Reading Response Journal(Begins in Daybook on pg. 1) • Start with a heading. • Do not just summarize! • Choose one response option and write a paragraph about that.
Reading Response Journal Heading: Title and Author of the book page # where you stopped today. React: • Why do you love/hate this book? • Why should someone else read it? • What would make it better? Question: What confuses you? • Ask the author 3 questions • Ask the main character 3 questions.
Reading Response Journal Heading: Title and Author of the book page # where you stopped today. Predict: • What will happen next? What makes you think so? • What "should" happen next? Write a new ending. Quote or point out: Quote an interesting or important part of the book. • Why is this important? • Why is it cool? • What’s the point?
Reading Response Journal Heading: Title and Author of the book page # where you stopped today. Compare and contrast: Name another book you’ve read that is reminds you of this book. • How is it the same? • How is it different? React: • What part of the story makes you happy? Why? • What part makes you sad? Why? • What part was really exciting? Why?
Reading Response Journal Heading: Title and Author of the book page # where you stopped today. Connect: • Tell how this book reminds you of your life. • Tell how you are similar to one of the characters in the book. • Tell how this book reminds you of something else you’ve read, heard, or seen. Setting • Where does the story take place and why is it important? • If it was set in a different place how would the story be different? • If you could change the setting where would you have this story take place?
Reading Response Journal Heading: Title and Author of the book page # where you stopped today. Visualizing: • What part of the book was really easy to picture? • Tell any pictures the author has left in your mind. Conflict: What is the problem in this book? • Are there other problems besides the main problem? • How is the problem solved? • What type of conflict is it (man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. self)
Reading Response Journal Heading: Title and Author of the book page # where you stopped today. Point of View: Who is telling the story? • Why is this a good person to be telling the story? • If you could change the narrator, who would you have tell the story? • What point of view is used (first person, third person limited, third person omniscient)? How do you know? Illustrations: Who is the Illustrator? • Do you like the pictures? Why or why not? • If the illustrations were not there, would there need to be more words? Why or why not? • How did the illustrations add to the text?