Independent Reading Activities

INDEPENDENT READING ACTIVITIES

Critique
(Evaluation)
Write out a thought-provoking quotation from your reading today. In 2-3 sentences, explain why you believe the quotation is important within your text. Additionally, evaluate whether you agree or disagree with the statement, and explain why in another 2-3 sentences. / Respond
(Analysis)
Identify the overarching mood (feeling for the reader) that the text creates for you as the reader. Provide and explain: ONE major event from the text that creates this mood and TWO word choices/images from the text that create this mood. Your response should be at least 6-7 sentences. / Connect
(Synthesis)
Select one quotation from the text that is very powerful for you. List the quotation, explain what you learned from it, how you can relate to it, and why it holds so much power. Your response should be at least 5-7 sentences.
Explain
(Analysis)
Identify the intended audience of your text. Provide and explain three details from the text that support the audience which you have identified. Your response should be at least 6-7 sentences. / Respond
(Analysis)
Identify the overarching tone (attitude of the author) that the author has developed in the text. Provide and explain TWO details from the text that helped the author to develop this tone. Your response should be at least 5-7 sentences. / Create
(Synthesis)
Create a 4-panel comic strip (it can be more) that illustrates an important idea and/or event from your book. Each panel should have drawings and dialogue. Come up with a title for your comic strip that captures its essence. Write a paragraph that explains how the idea and/or event relates to one of the author’s main points. Your response should be at least 5 sentences.
Connect
(Synthesis)
Think of a lesson, piece of wisdom, or a new outlook that you have gained from your text. Describe the lesson, wisdom, or outlook, provide two details from the text that helped develop the message, and explain why this message has personal meaning for you. Your response should be at least 7-8 sentences. / Create
(Analysis)
Select three unknown words that you have encountered in your reading, and write out the sentence in which they appear in the text (underline the word). In your own words, identify the meaning of each term and explain the context clues you used to arrive at each word’s meaning. / Critique
(Evaluation)
Identify the main text structure of your book (cause and effect, problem and solution, fact and opinion, etc.). Evaluate whether this is an effective text structure for the author to successfully convey his or her main idea and explain why. Your response should be at least 5-7 sentences.