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Reader's Response Guidelines

In your reader’s notebook this year, you will write responses to the independent reading you do each week. Your responses will require you to do some good thinking about books, reading, writing, readers, and writers. Your weekly reading responses will help us both learn about you as a reader.

When you write responses in the front section of your reader’s notebook, please do your best work. There are many different ways you can choose to respond to your book. You might:

 Write about what you like or dislike about a book or an author, and explain why you feel that way

 Share the parts of a book that puzzle you or make you ask questions

 Tell what you notice about characters (Do they change? Why do they act the way they do?)

 Write about what surprises or interests you

 Record your predictions and tell whether your predictions were right

 Ask for help in figuring out the meaning of your book

 Share the connections that you make to your book. Tell how it reminds you of yourself, other books, or the world around you.

 Write about the author’s writing style. What do you like or dislike?

 Write about the author’s craft. What does the author do well?

 Write a poem to share how your book makes you feel

 Create a pretend interview with a character from your book

 Pretend you are the author of your book, and write the next chapter

 Create a character “report card.” What grades would your character earn, and why?

Please write at least one 1+ page response every other week, and remember to list the title and author of your book at the top of your notebook page. Challenge yourself by varying your responses; your newest response should be different from the week before. You can refer to the list on the wall in our classroom for your personal due date.

Happy Reading and Writing!