1. Reading Response Journal (Begins in Daybook on pg. 1)
Start with a heading.
Do not just summarize!
Choose one response option and write a paragraph about that.

2. Reading Response Journal
Heading: Title and Author of the book page # where you stopped today.
React:
Why do you love/hate this book?
Why should someone else read it?
What would make it better?
Question:
What confuses you?
Ask the author 3 questions
Ask the main character 3 questions. 

3. Reading Response Journal
Heading: Title and Author of the book page # where you stopped today.
Predict:
What will happen next? What makes you think so?
What "should" happen next? Write a new ending. 
Quote or point out:
Quote an interesting or important part of the book.
Why is this important?
Why is it cool?
What’s the point?

4. Reading Response Journal
Heading: Title and Author of the book page # where you stopped today.
Compare and contrast:
Name another book you’ve read that is reminds you of this book.
How is it the same?
How is it different?
React:
What part of the story makes you happy? Why?
What part makes you sad? Why?
What part was really exciting? Why?

5. Reading Response Journal
Heading: Title and Author of the book page # where you stopped today.
Connect:
Tell how this book reminds you of your life.
Tell how you are similar to one of the characters in the book.
Tell how this book reminds you of something else you’ve read, heard, or seen.
Setting
Where does the story take place and why is it important?
If it was set in a different place how would the story be different?
If you could change the setting where would you have this story take place?

6. Reading Response Journal
Heading: Title and Author of the book page # where you stopped today.
Visualizing:
What part of the book was really easy to picture?
Tell any pictures the author has left in your mind.
Conflict:
What is the problem in this book?
Are there other problems besides the main problem?
How is the problem solved?
What type of conflict is it (man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. self)

7. Reading Response Journal
Heading: Title and Author of the book page # where you stopped today.
Point of View:
Who is telling the story?
Why is this a good person to be telling the story?
If you could change the narrator, who would you have tell the story?
What point of view is used (first person, third person limited, third person omniscient)? How do you know?
Illustrations:
Who is the Illustrator?
Do you like the pictures? Why or why not?
If the illustrations were not there, would there need to be more words? Why or why not?
How did the illustrations add to the text?