Response to Literature Options

Read at least 30 minutes each homework night. Your efforts on this homework will be reflected in your reading and writing assessments.
Write the date, title of the book, and the response strategy in the top corner of the page. Your target should be to fill a whole page with your thinking.
Response Strategies

Connection : Think of how your selection connects to you, another book, or the world. (text to self, text to text, or text to world) Explain your connection using sentences, a chart, or a diagram.
Character: Describe one character. Don’t retell the story. Instead, tell about the character’s feelings, ideas, actions, dreams, etc.
Summary: Write a “skeleton” of what you read. Include the most important details. Don’t forget a beginning and ending sentence. Leave out the small, less important details.
Labeled Drawing: Draw a detailed picture and label it. Write a caption to tell the most important details and why it is important to the story.
Chart: Think of a way you could use a chart or diagram to explain what you read. (T-chart, list, power outline, Venn Diagram, web). Write a caption to explain what you did.
Setting: With words, “draw” a picture of where your selection took place.
Quote: Find at least three sentences to copy in your log. Write about why you chose them and why they are important to what you read.
Words: Find 3 words in your selection and look them up in the dictionary. Write the definitions. Now use each of those 3 words correctly in a sentence.
Changes: Choose 3 sentences in your selection. Copy them into the log. Rewrite the sentences, changing them so that they sound better. (better descriptive words, better order of words, more clear, more exciting, etc.)
Judge: Judge how well your author wrote. What would you improve and how would you do it.
Question: Write an under the surface question (why, how, would, should or could) and answer it pertaining to something you read in your book this week.