Sustained Silent Reading/outside Reading Log Sheet
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Class Period: __________
MS. SINGLE’S SSR GUIDE SHEET
This is your GUIDE SHEET; other than your name & period, do not write on it. You must have it EVERY THURSDAY or FRIDAY
with your SSR book & your composition book where you will write your entry.
SSR Procedures:
1.
You will begin reading the minute you walk into class on Thursdays or Fridays, depending on which day you have our
class. Q1 & Q2 books are completely your choice of grade level reading material. Q3 & Q4 must be written by non-
American authors.
2.
You will read for the first 20-25 minutes of class. You will then have 10 minutes to write your response.
3.
We will start drill, etc. after SSR is completed.
4.
You will now earn the rubric score of a possible 15 points and an entry score of a possible 35 points per entry.
These scores will be recorded in your journal section. (10% of your overall grade is made up of daily journals & SSR
rubric & entry points)
Choose one of the options below as your written response to your text for SSR.
1.
In today's reading, did the setting or any of the characters remind you of people or characters in your own personal
life? Were any of the situations or events similar to your own life? How were they alike and how were they
different?
2.
Does this story or its characters remind you of another story you have read? Does it remind you of a movie? How
are they alike? And how are they different?
3.
If you could change the setting in this story to another setting, what setting would you choose? Would you change
just the time period? Or would you change the place, the season, and the actual environment-one of poverty,
riches, or middle class America? Why would you make those changes?
4.
If you could change the life or lives of a story character, to make their lives more like the lives of the characters in
the book or story you are reading, whose lives would you change? How would you change their lives? Why did you
pick these people or that person?
5.
If you were to put this story into your own life, in the area where you live, around the people and friends that you
know, how would the story have to change? How would the people change? Would the setting have to change?
Why would these changes have to take place?
6.
Sometimes we are pulled toward one or two characters in the story. We identify with them or feel sympathy for
them. With which characters do you identify in the book, and why do you believe you identify with them?
7.
Sometimes when we read, certain words or phrases or images stand out. Maybe they are words or phrases that
make an impression because of their sound, or maybe the meaning or image they make strikes us? Sometimes we
find words or expressions we just do not understand. Share those that you have come across and describe why you
listed them.
8.
Now that you are this far into the story, what do you look forward to learning next? What conflicts or problems do
you think the characters will face? What qualities of your character (honest, loyal, cruel, dishonest, angry, vengeful)
will affect how the character handles the problems and conflicts he or she encounters?
9.
If you could ask any character a question, what would you ask? If you could ask the author a question, what might
that be? Explain why you chose these questions. What do you think his/her answer would be?
10. As you read today, what surprised you? Explain how this will affect the story or how it changed your thinking about
the story.
11. When you wish to learn when you read again tomorrow; what do you hope will happen in the story or to the
characters? Why do you wish for that to happen?
12. Are you puzzled or confused about anything in the story? What is it that confuses you, and why do you find it
confusing?
13. It is not unusual to wish that our lives were more like the lives of characters in stories. How would you change your
own real life to be more like the world of your story?
14. Why do you think the author wrote this story? Where did he or she get the idea or the characters? What message
do you think that the author is trying to share?
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