Reading Log: READ 180
Name ___________________ Block ____
Date Assigned ________________________ Date Due ________
Read a total of 90 minutes or more this week, for at least 25 minutes at
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a time. How you complete the 90 minutes of reading and the required
writing is up to you.
List at the top of your paper the following:
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1. the title and author
2. page numbers read (pp. 55-90, for example),
3. date and number of minutes you read each time.
Respond to three of the reading responses from the list. Remember to
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restate the prompt in your writing.
You may type your responses.
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READING RESPONSE QUESTIONS:
1. Before you started reading this book/story, what hints did the title give
you as to what this book was going to be about?
2. Before reading this book/story today, what were your predictions about the
characters or the plot?
3. What kinds of things should someone know about before trying to read your book, so that he/she will
understand it better?
4. While you were reading today, what did you picture in your mind about the story?
5. Which character can you connect with the most in your book?
6. Which part of your book are you having the most difficulty understanding
or connecting with?
7. What have you done that is similar to what the characters experience in
your book?
8. What ideas do you have about the problem in your book?
9. What issue in your book has caused you to think the most?
10. What kind of message does the author want the reader to get from this
book/story?
11. What issue in your book is the most interesting? Upsetting? Familiar?
Ridiculous? Confusing?
12. How does the setting of your book contribute to the mood of the story?
13. What are the problems the main character faces and how are they solved?
14. How do two of the characters in your book differ from each other?
15. Which part of the story caused the most intense feelings in you?
16. How do the minor characters affect the main character?
17. What is the conflict the characters in your book experience and what are
you learning about them through this conflict?