Reading Counts Log

Student Name: ______Class Hour: ______Nine Weeks: 1st 2nd 3rd 4th

Directions: See your Survival Bible for directions

Novel Title: ______

Novel Author:

Date / Pages Read / Signposts with Description / Bold Question
Monday
Wednesday
Friday

Reading Counts Log Directions and Purpose

Purpose/Goal: The purpose of the Reading Counts program and the reading counts log is to teach you how to read independently and respond to the literature as you read. This will also help you to gain an appreciation of reading and help you to be brilliant active readers. Reading counts logs with the signposts will also help you to succeed with standardized testing by learning and connecting to standardized testing language.

Directions: You will read two novels per nine weeks; one novel before interims and one novel after interims. You will complete your reading counts log each week and turn it in on Fridays. Each day, you will read for 15 to 20 minutes and complete a signpost with a bold question (see below). You will choose one RACE questions from the list (see below also) and compose your answer on your reading counts log. Your end of the week expectations (goal) is to have five(5) signposts completed with a bold question and your RACE question completed.

Standards addressed:

7.R.L. 1; 7.R.L.2; 7.R.L. 3; 7.R.L. 4; 7.R.L. 5; 7.R.L. 6; 7.R.L. 7; 7.R.L. 9; 7.R.L. 10

RACE Questions

Pick one of these questions each week, and write the COMPLETE answer on the loose leaf in your red folder. Make sure to write the question and the answer neatly. You MAY NOT use the same question twice for one book. Your answers must answer the question thoroughly. (Suggestion: at least 5-10 sentence per questions) Refer to your rubric for detailed expectations.

  1. What was the main idea of the pages you read? Provide text evidence to support your answer.
  2. What were some words that the author used to transition from one idea to the next? Explain how those words contributed to the organization of the text.
  3. Explain the meaning of one word the author used in the text. What evidence from the text supports your definition of the word.
  4. What are some words or phrases in the text that author used to help you visualize the text?
  5. Choose one quote from the story and explain what was meant by that quote.
  6. What is the setting of the story and what information does the author give about the story during the explanation of the setting?
  7. Choose a heading in the pages you’ve read and describe the information the author provided in the text to connect to that heading.
  8. Explain the tone of the text and choose words or phrases in the text that support your observation?
  9. Choose one claim that the author makes and write the evidence the author used to support that claim.
  10. Look at the illustrations on pages you’ve read. Explain how those illustrations contributed to the main idea of the text.
  11. What is the point of view of this text? Use at least 2 details from the text to support your conclusion.
  12. Use evidence from the text to indicate any changes that have occurred since your last reading.
  13. Choose one literary device used in the text and explain the author’s purpose of that device.
  14. How would you rate the author’s word choice? Use evidence from the text to support your rating.
  15. Explain a problem that was presented in your reading. How did the setting impact that problem?
  16. List all the headings found on the pages you read and explain how they are related to the title.
  17. How is the text organized? (description, compare & contrast, sequence, cause/effect, problem/solution, question/answer) Provide evidence from the text to support your conclusion.
  18. What can you generalize about this text and why?
  19. List 3 facts from the text and explain how you know they are facts.
  20. List an important detail from the text and explain how it connects to the main idea.
  21. Look at the models/illustrations/diagrams used by the author in the pages you read. Would you have chosen a different form to share the same information? Why or why not?
  22. Describe how a character felt during your reading. Cite evidence from the text to support your answer.

Signposts

Contrasts & Contradictions
When you’re reading and a character says or does something that contradicts, or is opposite of what you would expect, you should STOP and ask yourself:
“Why is the character doing that?”
Aha Moment
When you’re reading and suddenly a character realizes, understands, or finally figures out something, you should STOP and ask yourself: “How may this change things?”
Tough Questions
When you’re reading and the character asks himself or herself a very diff cult question, you should STOP and ask yourself:
“What does this question make me wonder about?”
Words of the Wiser
When you’re reading and a character (probably older and wiser) takes the main character aside and gives serious advice, you should STOP and ask yourself: “What’s the life lesson and how
may it affect the character?”
Again & Again
When you’re reading and notice a word, phrase, or situation mentioned over and over, you
should STOP and ask yourself: “Why does this keep appearing again and again?”
Memory Moment
When you’re reading and the author interrupts the action to tell you about a memory, you should STOP and ask yourself:
“Why may this memory be important?”