Reading Homework Book Response

Read 30 minutes. Write the date and the name of the book. Choose 1 response each night. Choose a different response for each day until you have completed all of them and then start again.

  1. Make a Connection to what you read in your 30 minutes. This could be a personal connection or a connection to another book you have read. Don’t forget to tell how you feel.
  1. Make a Prediction of what you think will happen next and WHY you think that.
  1. What are you Wondering About. Is there a question you would ask the author if you could? Example (I wonder why… or I wonder if……)
  1. Make an Inference. I think that …….because……….Example: (I think that Little Red Riding Hood’s mother is not a very good parent because she sent Red Riding Hood into the woods by herself.)
  1. Write 3 Questions about this book that else might have to answer if they read this book.

someone

  1. Visualization. Draw a picture of one of the characters or the setting of the book. Write a caption underneath it.
  1. Transforming. What did you learn by reading this book. What do you think the author was trying to teach you about your own life?
  1. How would you rate this book? Did you like it or not? Why
  1. Write a summary of the book or a chapter of the book.

Example

Jan. 6 Superfudge

  1. Fudge reminds me of my nephew. He is so smart and he always asks so many questions. He has trouble saying his P sound. He is so cute and he makes me feel happy.
  2. I think that Peter and his family will end up really liking Princeton and when they have to move back they will be upset. I think that because Peter has already made a new friend and they ride bikes together.
  3. I wonder if the author really knows a family like this and if they are some real people somewhere?
  4. I think that Peter is a smart person because he thought of chopping the worms in half so they could make more money.
  5. Why was Peter so upset in the first chapter?

What kind of a restaurant is Baskin Robbins?

Why is the family moving to Princeton for a year?

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7. I learned that I shouldn’t be afraid of change, like movingto a new place because the new place might be better than the old place.

  1. I rate this book, 4 stars out of 5. I really enjoyed the humour and the characters were just like people I know in my own life.