What you could write in your reading
journal:
Using your reading
journal:
1.
Rate the book out of /10.
2. Write Character profiles.
3. Write a description of the main character: his/her looks, the
way s/he dresses, talks and personality.
4. Rate or describe a scene.
5. List the words and phrases used to create an atmosphere.
6. Summarise a whole chapter.
7. After reading the first chapter, predict how you think the story
might end.
8. Put yourself in the book, what role would you play?
9. Write about what you think a character might be thinking or
feeling at different points in the story.
10.
Write a letter to a
character in the book giving your views on a particular incidence.
11. Write a letter to a character in the book giving them advice on
an issue.
12.
In role as one of the characters,
make a diary entry after an incident in the story.
13.
Complete speech and
thought bubbles for characters in particular scenes.
14.
Devise interview
questions for a character in the book.
15.
Write speech bubbles for
two characters in a scene.
16.
Hot seat a class mate in
role as a character.
17.
Extend a particular scene.
18.
Write an alternative
ending to the book.
19.
Introduce new characters
into a scene, how will they behave?
20.
Role play a scene from
the book.
21.
Write a story map for key
events in the story.
22.
Write a play script for a
scene in the book.
23.
For non -fiction write
five new things you learnt.
24.
Be a word detective; find
five examples of the word class you are working on in class e.g. find five
adjectives, adverbs etc.
25.
Use your found words in
sentences.
26.
Write down new and unfamiliar
words you meet during reading, find out their meanings and use them in
sentences.
27.
Choose a descriptive word
from the text; find five synonyms and five antonyms for it.
28.
Summarise your favourite
part of the book, giving reasons for liking it.
29.
Rewrite the whole story as
a minisaga: story using fifty words or less.
30.
Review of the book- What
was
·
Good
·
Funny
·
Interesting
·
Not so good
31.
Would you recommend the
book to someone else? Why?
32.
Give your views on
author's presentation of the subject.
33.
Write a letter to the
author giving your view of a character or scene.
34.
Write some questions you
would like to ask the author.
35.
Hold a Booker Prize
competition to vote for your favourite book, Present synopsis of the book and
after whole class presentations, take vote on the winner.
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