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Accountable Research Reading Homework Directions
Research reading: Your student is expected to independently research the topic by reading topic-related books of his or her choice for approximately 20 minutes on assigned days and responding to the prompt on a loose leaf paper.
** Please use the Journal Format to record your written responses. Responses should be no more than 3 or 4 sentences
Date:
Title:
Author:
Pages Read: (Pages read does not apply if you read an article)
Prompt:
Response:
How to write a short constructed response:
Identify and underline each thing the question is asking you to do.
Look for plurals, like “details,” as this means more than one detail
Restate the question in the response
Support your answer with details from the text. (Text based evidence)
Make sure your answer addresses each of the things you underlined in the question.
Informational Reading Prompts
What are some comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs in the text you read? What do they do to the text?
What is the main idea of the text? What are some of the key details and how do they support the main idea?
What do the illustrations (photographs, maps) tell you? How do they help you to understand the words?
What questions do you now have after reading? What would you like to learn more about? Why?
What are the most important facts you learned from reading?
What is the most interesting fact you learned today? Why?
How does what you read today connect to something you have learned in lessons?
Choose one new word from your reading today and analyze it on a vocabulary square
Narrative Reading Prompts
For each response, be sure to use the narrative techniques discussed in class and carefully chosen words and phrases to describe the actions, thoughts, and feelings of the characters and events.
• Describe the setting where your story takes place. What do the characters see? What do they hear? How does it smell?
• Describe the main character in the story. What does he/she look like? What is his/her personality like? How does he/she interact with others?
• Describe a different problem the main character(s) have. How do they resolve it?
Selected Response Strategies
(Multiple Choice Questions)
✓ Strategy A: Think of the answer yourself.
1. Cover the answers.
2. Read the question.
3. You’re smart. Try to think of the answer yourself.
4.Uncover the answers.
5.Find the one that is most like your answer.
✓ Strategy B: Be confident.
1. Do Strategy A.
2. After you find the answer most like yours, choose it.
3. Don’t change your mind unless you have a good reason.
✓ Strategy C: Try again.
1. Skip all of the questions where you don’t know the answer.
2. Answer all of the questions you can.
3. Go back to the beginning of the test.
4.Check the answers you gave.
5. Try to answer the questions you skipped.
6.Pat yourself on the back.
Vocabulary Homework
Directions:
Throughout this unit, you have been research reading topic-related books at home to build your knowledge of frogs and what makes them unique and recording words in your independent reading journal.
Choose a different word to add and to practice a different vocabulary strategy each time. For each word, be sure to add the following:
• the definition, or meaning, of the word
• the vocabulary strategy you used to figure out the meaning of the word
• a sketch or diagram that helps you to better understand the meaning of the word as a reminder. The vocabulary strategies we’ve been working on in class are:
Vocabulary Strategies
• Context: Read the sentence around the word.
• Look at the affixes for clues.
• Look at the root of the word for clues.
• Use a dictionary.
• Discuss the word with another person (after attempting some of the above strategies).