Ideas for Reading Responses:

• Tell what you like or dislike about a book and why.
• Tell about parts of your book that confused you or made you ask questions.
• Tell what you noticed about the characters, such as what made them act as they did or how they changed.
• Write something in the book that surprised you or that you found interesting.
• Write your predictions and about whether your predictions were right.
• Ask for help in figuring out the meaning of your book.
• Tell about the connections that you made while reading the book.  Tell how it reminds you of yourself, or people you know, or of something that happened in your life.  It might remind you of other books, especially the characters, events, or the setting.
• Write about the author’s style and how it makes you feel.
• Write about the language the author used and why you think the author wrote this way.
• Write about the author’s craft – what was effective about the way the author wrote.
• Write about your reading goals and how you think you’re doing.
• Write about something you wished you could have shared during group, but didn’t get to.