Weekly Reading Log Name ___________________________________ # ________ Week start __________________

Date and title of Pages Respond to one of the following each time you read.
what you read read Select the question you will answer. Write in complete sentences. You will turn this in every Monday.
Read a Fiction:
1 F What are the major events that happen in the story or poem?
Nonfiction:
1 NF. What is the author’s purpose for writing this text? Be sure to explain your
minimum of 2 F. What conflicts did the characters face? How did they respond to the challenges/conflicts? answer. (Inform, Persuade, Entertain)
3 F. What details in the story help you understand how the characters are changing? 2 NF What are the main ideas of this text? What key details support the main idea?
30 minutes 5 4 F What words in the text tell how (character) feels? Explain why he or she feels this way. 3 NF. How can the photos and captions help you determine what the words and
days/nights 5 F. Is this text prose, drama, or a poem? How is it organized?
6 F. Who is telling the story? Why? How does this affect the events in the story?
phrases mean?
4 NF. What text features help identify the most important information? What text
a week. 7 F. How do the illustrations in this text help you clarify your understanding of the text
details?
features could have been added?
5 NF. Is each text organized by cause/effect, comparison, chronologically, or by
8 F. How do the character’s actions effect what happens in the story? Use a detail from the problem/solution? What signal words help you determine this?
story in your answer. 6 NF. Identify three text features. Explain the information you learned from each text
9. F. How would you retell this story, including important parts from the beginning, middle, feature.
and end? 7 NF. What does the author claim? What evidence supports this claim?
10. F. Describe the main character. Give two character traits that the character has. 8 NF. What are the most important events/ideas/steps to remember? Why are those
the most important?
Example: 18-25 6 F. Cinderella is the main character of this story. Some of the conflicts she faced during the story was not being allowed to attend the Prince’s Ball, having an evil Stepmother, and
Cinderella the death of her mother. Cinderella responds to these conflicts by being kind and hopeful. Her fairy godmother sends Cinderella to the Ball and eventually Cinderella and the Prince
Mon 8/26 get married.

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