Name: _____________________
Title: _________________________________ Author: _____________________
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Write ____ questions about the text below.
Who?
What?
Where?
When?
Why?
Name: _____________________
Title: _________________________________ Author: _____________________
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Be the teacher! Pretend you are the teacher and write four questions about the book you read. Write the answers next to each question.
Questions Answers
Name: _____________________
Title: _________________________________ Author: _____________________
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Answer the questions your learned about in your reading.
What is happening?
Who are the most important characters?
Where does the story take place?
When does the story take place?
What is the problem and solution?
Name: _____________________
Retelling Hand character
setting
beginning
middle
end
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Title:
Author:
Name: _____________________
Retelling Hand character
setting
beginning
middle
end
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Title:
Author:
Message or Lesson
Name: _____________________
Title: _________________________________ Author: _____________________
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Share the most important events in the story:
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
Name: _____________________
Title: _________________________________ Author: _____________________
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Tell about the story:
Beginning
Middle
End
Tell the story with pictures. beginning middle end
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Name: _____________________
Title: _________________________________
Name: _____________________
Title: _________________________________ Author: _____________________
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Share the most important events in the story:
Event #1
Event #2
Event #3
Message or Lesson
draw a picture
The most important event in the story is…
Tell about the event: _____________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.
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Name: _____________________ Title: ______________________________________________
Author: ________________________
Name: _____________________
Title: _________________________________ Author: _____________________
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Create a timeline of the events in the book
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Compare and contrast two characters in the story
Name: _____________________ Title: ______________________________________________
Author: ________________________
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Show
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Share character traits that tell about each character.
The two most important characters are:
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Name: _____________________ Title: ______________________________________________
Author: ________________________
Share a character trait the character displays and an event in the story that led
you to that trait. The main character is ______________________.
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Name: _____________________ Title: ______________________________________________
Author: ________________________
How does the main character respond to the problem?
The main character is ______________________.
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Name: _____________________ Title: ______________________________________________
Author: ________________________
The problem the character faces is:
____________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Draw a picture to show the main character or characters.
Use words to tell about the main character.
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Name: _____________________ Title: ______________________________________________
Author: ________________________
Draw a picture to show the problem.
Use words to tell about the problem.
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Name: _____________________ Title: ______________________________________________
Author: ________________________
Draw a picture to show the solution.
Use words to tell about the solution.
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Name: _____________________ Title: ______________________________________________
Author: ________________________
Draw a picture to show the problem.
Use words to tell about the problem.
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Name: _____________________ Title: ______________________________________________
Author: ________________________ Draw a picture to show the solution.
Use words to tell about the solution.
Draw a picture to show the setting.
Use words to tell about the setting:
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Name: _____________________ Title: ______________________________________________
Author: ________________________
Draw and label a scene from the story.
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Name: _____________________ Title: ______________________________________________
Author: ________________________
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Aut
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Settings Change: Share and describe two settings from the story.
______________________ ______________________
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Name: _____________________ Title: ______________________________________________
Author: ________________________
______________________ ______________________
How the story made me feel:
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Name: _____________________ Title: ______________________________________________
Author: ________________________
Sharing Emotions
Show a scene from the story
1.
2.
3.
Share the clues in the story that helped you determine the point of view.
The point of view is
________.
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Name: _____________________ Title: ______________________________________________
Author: ________________________
This is what the text told me about the solution.
The real world problem is __________________________________________________________________.
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Name: _____________________ Title: ______________________________________________
Author: ________________________
Problem & Solution
This is what the text told me about the problem:
The lesson in this story is:
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Name: _____________________ Title: ______________________________________________
Author: ________________________
Reading Reactions
Vocabulary Words 1. ________________
________________________________
2. ________________________________________________
3. ________________________________________________
How I feel about this story:
The problem the main character face:
The main character is ______________________.
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Name: _____________________ Title: ______________________________________________
Author: ________________________
Reaction Map If I were the main character, I would have…
How the story made me feel…
What key events helped me determine the lesson? The lesson is
______________________ ______________________ ______________________.
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Name: _____________________ Title: ______________________________________________
Author: ________________________
______________________ ______________________ ______________________
______________________ ______________________ ______________________
______________________ ______________________ ______________________
Show an important event
My reaction to the story:
Two important events are: The main characters are:
______________________ ______________________ ______________________.
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Name: _____________________ Title: ______________________________________________
Author: ________________________
______________________ ______________________ ______________________
______________________ ______________________ ______________________
______________________ ______________________ ______________________
The setting is:
The solution is:
______________________ ______________________ ______________________
______________________ ______________________ ______________________
The problem is:
eh
draw a picture
What did I find interesting?
Something interesting I read was ____________________________ _____________________________________________________.
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Name: _____________________ Title: ______________________________________________
Author: ________________________
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from
the
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How
the
sto
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me
feel
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or
do n
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end
this
sto
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beca
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con
nect
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I m
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while
rea
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is…
draw a picture
My favorite part is…
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Name: _____________________ Title: ______________________________________________
Author: ________________________
I chose this part of the story because _________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Make a storyboard to show the important events in the story.
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Name: _____________________ Title: ______________________________________________
Author: ________________________
Making Connections
The text I read
reminds me of…
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Name: _____________________ Title: ______________________________________________
Author: ________________________
Making Connections
The text I read
reminds me of…
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Name: _____________________ Title: ______________________________________________
Author: ________________________
Making Connections
Title: __________________ _______________________
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Name: _____________________ Title: ______________________________________________
Author: ________________________
Title: __________________ _______________________
Making Connections
something from the text something from the world
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Name: _____________________ Title: ______________________________________________
Author: ________________________
Making Connections
something from the text what happened in my life
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Name: _____________________ Title: ______________________________________________
Author: ________________________
Making Connections
something from the text what happened in my life
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Name: _____________________ Title: ______________________________________________
Author: ________________________
