Reading Journal

Journals are due every Friday. You will select 2 different questions each week, so once you have answered a question you cannot use that one again. Each response must be a minimum of 4 sentences for a total of at least 8 sentences each week. This is done instead of your nightly reading, so it should take you at least 30 minutes to give good, thorough responses.

Directions: At the beginning of each book, record the book title, author, and Lexile or AR level. For each new entry, have 1) skipped a line, 2) the date in the margin, 3)the question number you are answering, and 4) the chapter number or page numbers you read this week.

1. This [character, place, event] reminds me of...because...

2. I like/dislike this book because...

3. I like/dislike this part of the book because...

4. This situation reminds me of something that happened in my own life. (Tell the story and talk about the connections).

5. The character I [like best, admire, dislike the most] is...because...

6. I like this part of the story because...

7. The setting of this story is important because...

8. This book makes me think about [an important social issue, a problem, and so on]

9. A question that I have about this book is...because...

10. When I read this book I felt...

11. If I were this character I would...

12. (Character) reminds me of [myself, a friend, a family member] because...

13. If I could talk to one of the book's characters I would (ask or say)...

14. I predict that....because...

15. This [phrase, sentence, paragraph] is an example of good writing because...

16. This [person, place, time] reminds me of...

17. I admire [character] because...

18. I didn't understand the part of the story when...

19. This book reminds me of another book I have read.

20. The most exciting part of the book was...

21. The big ideas in this book were...

22. Some important details I noticed were... They were important because...

23. My favorite part of the book was...

24. I think the author wrote this book to...

25. I found this book hard to follow when...

26. The author got me interested when...

27. The book is really about...

28. After the book ends, I predict....

29. I am like or different from [character]...

30. I learned...

31. This books makes me want to [action, future reading]...

32. After reading the first [page, paragraph, chapter] of this book, I felt...

33. The title of this book says to me...

34. If I could be any character in this book, I would be....because...

35. What I want to remember about this book is...

36. I'd like to read another book by this author because...

37. The most important [word, phrase, idea, illustrations] in the book is...

38. My feelings about [the book, character] changed when...

39. This book was an effective piece of writing because...

40. As compared to other books [by this author, on the same topic], I think this book is...

41. I thought this book was [realistic, unrealistic] because...

42. I question the accuracy of...

43. The genre of this book is....because it has [characteristics].

44. I [agree/disagree] with the author about...

45. I think the illustrations...

46. I notice that the author...

47. If I were the author, I would have changed the part of the story when...

48. The author is qualified to write this book because....

49. To summarize the text, I would say....

50. This book helped me to...