Task List ~ Reader’s Workshop

Name:

Title of book:

Author:

BEFORE READING:

  1. Choose the book and tell your teacher. Be sure you have thought about WHY you are choosing this book. Is it a challenging, “just right” or easy book?
  2. In your journal, make 5+ PREDICTIONS – use three columns for this assignment. First column is the prediction, 2nd column is telling what you used to make this prediction (ex: title, chapter titles, back of the book, illustrations, prequel, etc…)

WHILE READING:

  1. Complete GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS each day while reading. Remember to include all the LITERARY ELEMENTS (characters, setting, plot, problem, solution, and author’s message). Also, record your STRATEGIC THINKING/ HAND as your read the books. Using codes, record your P – Predictions; ? – Questions; I – Inferences about the characters; C – Connections to yourself, the world, and other texts; and ! – Important events. **Remember to also record great quotes that you can use for final projects!
  2. Using your VOCABULARY sheet, record unfamiliar or great words on your log. Write the word AND your predicted meaning based on the context clues used to figure out the meaning of the word. Record the context clue #s in the box. After you are finished reading, you will look up the words! GOAL: 15++ words.

AFTER READING:

  1. Two tasks: 1) Revisit your predictions you made before reading the book. Complete the third column by writing the outcome. 2) Using 2 columns, write at least 5 SEQUEL PREDICTIONS in one column, and explain why you made that prediction in the other. Ex: Sequel: Peter and Cole will become friends. Why: They are spending time on the island together and they are already bonding.
  2. Using COPS, record your answers to the Critical Reading Questions. Remember, you are not writing about specific characters, you are writing BIG ideas.
  3. Show Ms. Rooks your vocabulary sheet, she will tell you which words to look up!
  4. Complete a FINAL PROJECT: Story Frame OR …..There are many options here!
  5. INFORMATION CONNECTION: Find one and code….be sure to make connections to your BOOK! Remember the HAND. You want to mark 10 connections that are most interesting.

TURN IT IN:

  1. Tear off your vocabulary list. Once this is graded, it will be kept in your writing folder so that you can use these great new words in your own writing.
  2. Tear out your journal pages and staple them to the back of your Task List.
  3. Turn everything in to your teacher!