Weekly W.O.W. Reflectiondue Date

Weekly W.O.W. ReflectionDue Date:

Name: ______Book Title ______

W: Writer’s Reaction: ____/6 points

O:Own Thinking: ____/6 points

W:Words about the author/Wonder about a character ____/6 points

• W. Writer’s Reaction: Discuss reactions to your reading. Write real and honest feelings about your book – what you like and don’t like about your book. Include your ideas and opinions about the characters and events.
• O. Own Thinking: Discuss the thinking you had as you read; connections you made, questions you have, inferences, conclusions, predictions, lingering thoughts, things you’ve learned etc. Be sure to support your thinking with direct evidence - quotes and page numbers –from the text.
• W. Words about the author/Wonder about a character: Reflect on the author’s writing style. Discuss character traits, decisions they have made, questions you have about them, interactions with other characters, and theme statements from your book.
• Effort/Organization: /2

• Ideas are clear, interesting, and detailed. (____/2)
• Writing is organized using transitions: (i.e. first, next, in addition, for example, also, consequently.)(____/2)
• I have used reading vocabulary within my responses:

• I write with voice and feeling, stating what I liked or disliked from my reading. (____/2)
• My sentences are fluid with different beginnings. Some are long and some are short. (____/2)
• Conventions:
• I use homophones correctly (their, they’re, there) (____/2)
• I spell all words,including those with suffix endings, correctly: (hope – hoping, hop – hopping,

• I use apostrophes correctly with possessive nouns (Mark’s) and contractions (don’t) (____/2)

• I capitalize beginnings of sentences, proper nouns/adjectives, and the pronoun “I”. (____/2)
• I punctuate sentences correctly: . ? ! and eliminate run-on sentences. (____/2)
• I use commas correctly including: FANBOYS, AAAWWUBBIS, series, and appositives. (____/2)
• I write quotations correctly: (Nick said, “I think I have an extra frindle, I mean,