1) How is the information in your book organized? For example, are questions asked and then answered? Are two sides of an argument presented? Are events placed in the order they happened? Are events listed from most important to least important? Or is your book organized in some other way? Explain and refer to at least two details from the story to support your response.
2) Write a description of the topic of your book. Then summarize the main points for this topic. Refer to at least two specific places in the book in your explanation to support your response.
3) Write a paragraph telling four or five things you already knew about the topic before you started reading your book. Tell what you knew about those things and what you learned about them now that you’ve read about them.
4) Write a paragraph telling four or five things you learned from your book. In your paragraph, refer to at least two specific places in the book.
5) Write a paragraph where you describe the most interesting thing you’ve learned from your book. In your paragraph, refer to at least two specific sentences from the book to support your response.
6) What is the author’s purpose for writing this material? For example, is it to persuade you of something? Is it to entertain you? Is it to inform you? In your paragraph, refer to at least two specific sentences from the book to support your response.
7) What type of person would you recommend this book to? Describe this person in detail, and explain why a person like this should read this book.
8) How well did this book teach you about the main topic? Would you say it did a great job, an “o.k.” job, or a poor job of teaching you? Refer to at least two specific places in your book to support your response. What could have made this book better?
9) Find a sentence from your book that best indicates the main idea of your book. Copy the sentence and explain your reasoning for choosing this sentence.
10) The President wants to recommend a book to the nation: tell him one important realization you had while reading this book and why he should recommend it.
11) Find a poem that relates to one of the topics in your book. Copy the poem and then provide an explanation of how the poem relates.
12) Pick the most important word, image, object, or event in one of the chapters and explain why you chose it.
13) Write a song about the main topic or one of the supporting details for that topic.
14) Copy the way the information in your book is organized and write a paragraph where you tell about an entirely different topic, using the same style of organization.
15) Compare this topic to another topic you have read about. What is similar about the two topics? What is different? Refer to at least two details from the book to support your response.
