Reading Log
All fifth grade students are expected to read for at least 15 minutes each night. You are welcome to read books, magazines, and newspapers to fulfill your daily reading. Keep in mind, however, only novels count toward the “Fifth Grade Book Challenge.” Also, your Genre of the Month book should be read first before reading a free choice selection.
Five nights of the cycle, you will be required to write a paragraph(at least 4 sentences-in the beginning of the year) demonstrating how you applied one of the reading skills and reading strategies from ELA class to your independent reading. Use the following prompts to guide you in your responses. If the prompt asks you to cite evidence from your reading, be sure to use specific evidence with the quotations from our reading. The reading log will be due on Day 6 of each cycle.
We will begin with a few options and then add more as we learn and practice the reading skill in class. Here is the final list of options.
Summarization: Write a summary of your reading. Only KEY FACTS are needed in a summary. Use story structure!
Story Structure: Describe at least one element of story structure from your reading using evidence from the book with page numbers. (Characters, setting, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution)Use your notes!
Vocabulary: Write about a class vocabulary word you found in your book. Include the sentence and explain the meaning.
Asking Questions: Write at least three questions you asked while your read OR answer any previous questions that were asked and were finally answered.
Compare and Contrast:Compare and contrast two characters. Explain one similarity and two differences.
Making Predictions: Make a prediction and use evidence to support it.
Character Traits: Name two traits and evidenceto support your answers for each trait with page numbers.
Sequence of Events:List the order of events that happened during the chapter using transition words such as first, next, then, after that, finally.
Theme: Write the lesson learned in the story. Use evidence to support your answer with page numbers.
Cause and Effect: Write how one event caused another event to occur.
Main Idea(NON-FICTION): Explain the main idea of your reading. Identify at least three details that support the main idea.
Text and Graphic Features(NON-FICTION):Explain how a text or graphic features helped you to comprehend your reading. Identify the feature. Use your notes!
Figurative Language:Write an example of a simile, metaphor, alliteration, personification, idiom, hyperbole, onomatopoeia. State what it type it is along with the example.
Context Clues: Explain how you used context clues to determine the meaning of an unknown word in your reading.
Making Connections: Describe how you connected your reading to your own life(text to self), to another book(text to text), or to what is happening around you(text to world).
Here is an example of what the paragraph COULD look like… You can connect your reading to the skills in whatever way you can.
Book title: HatchetSkill or Strategy: Characters
Paragraph: Brian Robeson is a young boy who is very resourceful. He manages to survive in the wilderness by using only a hatchet strapped to his belt. Through his resourcefulness, he is able to make a fire from money, catch fish with a shoestring, and protect himself from animals. I think that being resourceful can help you in life because you can look at every day things and use them differently.