Reading+Responses

__** Student Reading Response Journal Questions **__ Reading Response Notebooks are due every Friday, with a full page response to any of the prompts below, the prompts included in your Reading Response Notebooks, or those given to you by Mrs. Fiore. Students should read at least 120 minutes or 2 hours every week and respond weekly in their Reading Response Journal using their neatest handwriting (or type them on the computer). Responses will be in the form of a letter to the teacher or their reading partner.

Students should respond to a different question each week. __Be sure to include the date, title of the book, and the response question selected, and then write the response.__ **Make sure to use text details and quotes from the book to explain and elaborate. For connections, be sure to use specific details.**

**Reading Response Rubric:**
 * 2: The response is supported by two examples from the text. After each example, a personal connection and/or opinion is described. Transitional words are used for fluency. A concluding sentence restates the original thesis. **
 * 1: The response is supported by only one example from the text. After the example, a personal connection and/or opinion may be described. Transitional words may be used for fluency. A concluding sentence restates the original thesis. **
 * 0: The response is too brief or off topic to show understanding. A longer response may be very repetitive. **

**Analyze** When analyzing, look closely at all the parts or ideas to explain how they are related.


 * Analyze how your feelings change as you read this story and why.
 * Analyze what motivates the main character’s behavior.
 * Analyze the author’s ability to write. What does the author do most effectively? What does the author do least effectively?

**Compare** Look closely to find all things that are alike w hen comparing ideas or thoughts.


 * Compare what is happening to a character in the book with your own or a friend’s life.
 * Compare the plot of what you are reading with your favorite book.
 * Compare where you live to the setting described in what you are reading.

**Contrast** Look closely to find all things that are different when contrasting ideas or thoughts.


 * Contrast the theme of what you are reading with something you read last month.
 * What would be a good contrast to the setting of what you are reading?

**Describe** When describing something, use descriptive words and lots of details. Describe it so that a person reading what you wrote can make a picture in their mind with what you are saying.

> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%; text-align: left;">**Differentiate** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%; text-align: left;">When you differentiate, you want to explain the difference.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Describe the important ideas in this story.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Describe the similarities and differences between the main character and you.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Describe the main characters.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Describe the mood of what you are reading.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Describe the main characters.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Describe the major conflict. What side are you on?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Describe the most important event. Give at least three reasons why you think it is the most important event.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Describe the setting – when and where what you are reading takes place.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Describe the setting’s time and place. Create a new setting that you think would be better for the story and describe it.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Describe what was either believable or unbelievable about your reading. Defend your opinion.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%; text-align: left;">Describe the similarities and differences between the main character and you.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%; text-align: left;">Describe the theme (central meaning/author's message) of your reading.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%; text-align: left;">Describe your least favorite character and explain why.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%; text-align: left;">Describe your most favorite character and explain why.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%; text-align: left;">Do any of the characters feeling change as you’ve read? Explain why or why not.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Differentiate between the main character and yourself.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Differentiate between the setting of what you are reading and where you live.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%; text-align: left;">**Discuss** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%; text-align: left;">When discussing something, closely examine the subject in detail.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Discuss why you like or dislike what you are reading.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Discuss what you think what moral, or life-lesson, can be found in what you are reading.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Discuss what images appear in your mind as you read & how the author helped create those images.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%; text-align: left;">**Evaluate** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%; text-align: left;">When evaluating, look closely to determine what is important and significant.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Evaluate whether the title fits the story.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Evaluate the quality of the writing.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Evaluate whether the main character would be worthy of your friendship.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%; text-align: left;">**Explain** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%; text-align: left;">When explaining something, give reasons why things happened or give reasons for how you got your answer.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Explain what kind of reader would like this book most.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Explain why somebody should or should not read this?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">How would you explain the plot of this story to somebody interested in reading it?

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%; text-align: left;">**Identify** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%; text-align: left;">When identifying something, look closely and explain what makes it unique.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Identify what the author has done to try to keep you reading the book.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Identify the main characters. Describe what has happened that makes you believe they are the main characters?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Identify the protagonist. Identify the antagonist. Describe what has happened that makes you believe they are the main characters?

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%; text-align: left;">**Interpret** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%; text-align: left;">When interpreting something, think and examine it carefully, then give the meaning or significance of it.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Pick the phrase from what you are reading that made you think. Interpret what the author meant.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Pick out 2-4 words from what you are reading that you had difficulty understanding. Interpret what you think each word means based on context clues (other words around that word that might help you interpret what the author means).
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Which characters would you interpret to be ‘good’? Which would you interpret to be ‘bad’? What has the author written that leads you to those interpretations?

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%; text-align: left;">**Main Idea** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%; text-align: left;">When looking at the main idea, look for the most important idea or reason.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">What is main idea? Defend your answer.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Write the main idea of what you are reading and what are your reasons for thinking it is the main idea.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%; text-align: left;">**Synthesize** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%; text-align: left;">When synthesizing something, you are combining new ideas with what you already know to form something new and different.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Write an editorial, an opinion essay, about an event from your reading.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Write an obituary for the protagonist or antagonist.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Write the biography for one character
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Draw a line down the center of your paper. On the left, write facts from what you read. On the right, write your personal opinions about what you read.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Draw a line down the center of your paper. Write a cause (why did it happen?) on the left and its effect (what happened?) on the right. Do this until you have three cause and effects listed.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Draw the line down the center of your paper. One the left, list what you like about what you read and why. On the left, list what you didn’t like and why.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Make a timeline of the events that have occurred in your book so far…
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Pretend you are a famous reporter on TV. Write a story about what you’ve read for the evening news.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Pretend you are the friend of one of the characters. Write him or her a letter.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Pretend you get to create the music soundtrack for what you’ve been reading. What five songs would you include? Write an explanation for each song: why would you include it, how does the song connect to events
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Pretend you have special powers and could put yourself in your reading. Where would you put yourself and why? How would you being there change the story?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Pretend your job is to write magazine ads. Create an ad for what you’ve been reading.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Select a quote from your reading that you liked. What made you pick it? How does it make you pause and think?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Quote a passage & respond to it. How did it make you feel?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">Summarize what you read today. Make me want to read it!
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">What emotions did you feel while you read? Give details from your reading that made you feel that way.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">What event could have happened in real life? What would be similar in real life? What would be different in real life?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 160%;">What you are reading is going to be made into a movie. You are the movie executive that chooses the location for the filming. Where would you chose and why?