Independent Reading Journals
Note: Any of these journal prompts can be adapted based on specific curricular needs.
- In at least one well-developed paragraph, please summarize your reading for today as well as provide your thoughts about the book. In other words, you are at the very least responding to the following questions: What happened in your book today? How do you feel about that?
- Think about what you read today. Below, relate your book to what we have been doing in class recently. Your response should be at least one well-developed paragraph and use specific textual evidence to support your connections.
- Choose one quotation from your book and respond to it. What makes it so important to you or the book?
- Write a poem about, related to, or inspired by your reading.
- Choose a notable quotation from your book and discuss its significance to the text in one well-developed paragraph. Please be sure to copy the quotation as well as provide the page number.
- In one paragraph, describe how one character is feeling in your book and why. Be sure to use specific textual evidence to support your response.