8th Grade Language Arts
You should be reading a minimum of 75 pages per week for Personal Choice Reading.
Reading Responses are due every other week. They will be collected on Monday and are worth a grade!
Read the assigned amount of pages (75) and complete one of the following prompts in response to the week’s reading. Your response must be answered in a paragraph of approximately 15 sentences. You may not answer the same question twice. Keep track because I check! Begin each response with the title of the book and author’s name in the first sentence of the paragraph.
Response Prompts for Fiction
o Copy down a quote from a character and tell why you think it is meaningful. What evidence from the text helped you know it was meaningful?
o Describe your favorite part and explain why it was your favorite.
o Make a prediction about what will happen in the story and give evidence to support why you are predicting this.
o Write a letter to a character or the author.
o Compare this book to another book you have read. How is it similar? How is it different?
o Describe a turning point in the book. Why is this event an important part?
o Pick a character and explain why you would or would not like to have them as a friend.
o Why do you think the author wrote this book?
o Pick an event in the book and explain why 2 different characters acted differently.
o Describe a story problem that is important to all people, not just the characters in the book.
Response Prompts for Non-fiction
o Explain why you chose to read this book.
o What information in the book surprised you? Why?
o What is the most interesting thing you have read? Why?
o What text and graphic features does the author use in the book? How do these features help you understand better?
o Summarize what you have read.
o What question would you like to ask the author? Why?
o Would you like to learn more about this topic? Why?
o What is the reason the author wrote a book on this subject? What was his/her purpose?
o Pick out a part where you feel the author has used great sensory details. Why were they so convincing?
o To whom would you recommend this book? Why?
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