This document provides instructions for students to complete reader's response assignments for a novel in quarters three and four. It outlines seven steps for the assignment: 1) Include header information, 2) Write a summary of the main ideas in the assigned reading section, 3) Choose a response type from options A-G, 4) Complete the chosen response type which includes questions to answer about predictions, vocabulary, connections, character traits, literary devices, conflicts, or character development. The response is to be 1-3 sentences in length and provide the essential details about the reader's response assignment requirements.

1. Reader’s Response Quarters Three and Four
I. Step One Directions: On a sheet of loose leaf paper, write the heading using the following format:
Name
Teacher/Period #
Date
Reader’s Response #
Title (underline) *novel only*
Author
Pages Read (From and To)
Letter of Response Choice
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II. Step Two Directions: Write a summary of the main ideas of the section you read for this response.
What are the important/big ideas? Use the 5 W’s and How to guide your writing.
Please remember to use TAG in your topic sentence.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------III. Step Three Directions: Each week, you will complete one of the following. Use the line to the left of
each choice as a “check off.”
A. Prediction
1. What do you think will happen next?
2. Explain using details and information from the story why you think this will happen. Be
thorough in your response – you must support what you are saying by basing it on details
from the text.
B. Vocabulary
1. Select at least three new and interesting words from this week’s reading. Copy the
sentences with the words from the book (include the page number).
2. Look up the definitions and record them on your paper.
3. For each new word, draw a picture or write an original sentence that contains the word
C. Connections
1. Based on the pages read, make a text to text, text to self, or text to world connection.
2. Provide details about the connection to support your response, explaining thoroughly why
this is a connection.
D. Character Traits
1. Choose a character from your reading and write their name.
2. Choose a trait that describes the character in this passage and write it underneath the
character’s name.
3. Support your choice by telling what the character thought, said or did to show he/she fits
this trait.
E. Literary Devices
1. Identify one type of figurative language (ex.: simile, metaphor, etc.) used
throughout the section of the book you are reading.
2. Write the figurative language phrase, and tell what the phrase means.
3. Draw a quick sketch of the literal meaning of the phrase.
F. Conflict
1. Write about the problem or struggle a character(s) faced in this section.
2. Identify and explain the type of conflict the character is facing; Man vs. Self, Man vs. Man,
Man vs. Nature.
3. How did the character(s) handle this problem?
4. Was the problem resolved in this section? If so, explain how it was resolved. If not, explain
what happened as a result of the conflict.
G. Character Development
1. Choose a character who changed in the story.
2. Explain how he/she changed throughout the story and describe the character at the
beginning, middle, and end.
3. Support your response with details from the story.