New Year, New Reading Goals and Reading Log

How to use this formative!

This formative contains questions designed to guide and enable students to set new year reading goals and log their progress. It it outlined to set a January reading goal but feel free to add more days or adjust the time period to make sense for your classroom.

Feel free to delete sections and questions that don't apply to your students, modify questions so that they apply better, and/or to add your own questions! (Tip: you can copy questions by clicking on the "copy" icon near the top right of each question.)

NOTE: You must assign this formative to a class (not guest students), so that they can log in/out and continue to update their work.

NOTE: Make sure that you toggle "Enable Edits after Final Submission" to green in your Assign settings to allow students to update this log as many times as they want over the break!

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Rubric source for question 8: RCampus

Reading Log Instructions! 📚 
“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” – Mortimer J. Adler

This formative is to set your new year reading goal and record your reading over the month of January:
Read as often as possible. Every time you read, even if it's only for 5 minutes, log in here and check the box for that day's reading in question 1. (Can you log a 16-day streak?!)
Record the titles of the books you're reading in question 2. You can record a book here if you read some of it (you don't need to finish it to record it).
When you do finish a book, record a response for questions 3/4/5/6. (If you read more than 4 books over the month of January, then firstly, wow! And secondly, you can record your response to those extra books under question 9.)
Near the end of the month, think about what you would like to write for questions 7 and 8. You should allocate around an hour to complete those questions.
Ready to see how many books can get through to you? 😀 

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Check the box if you did some reading on that day:

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Keep track here of the books you've read. Write the titles in a list.

Tip: highlight the first word, then select this icon from the menu that appears:

Use questions 3 - 6 to record a response to your reading when you finish a book.

(If you don't finish 4 books over January , that is perfectly ok! Aim for 1-2.)

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(Did you read more than 4 books? Record your response to those in question 9.)

You should tackle questions 7 and 8 near the end of January. These questions should take you around an hour to complete.

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Pick one character from a story you've read this January Break. What was an important problem that character faced? Summarize the problem in 1-2 sentences.

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Imagine that you are a friend of this character. Write a letter to the character with advice for solving their problem. Make sure you do the following:
Include a greeting at the beginning and closing at the end (you don't need to include an address)
Describe the problem, using evidence from the story
Give advice for solving the problem that is based on the events and setting of the story
Write at least 3 body paragraphs.
Use this rubric to guide you as you write:

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New Year, New Reading Goals and Reading Log

Reading Log Instructions! 📚

Check the box if you did some reading on that day:

Keep track here of the books you've read. Write the titles in a list.

Tip: highlight the first word, then select this icon from the menu that appears:

Pick one character from a story you've read this January Break. What was an important problem that character faced? Summarize the problem in 1-2 sentences.

Use this space to write any other thoughts, ideas, or questions you have about your January reading!

Reading Log Instructions! 📚

Check the box if you did some reading on that day:

Keep track here of the books you've read. Write the titles in a list.

Tip: highlight the first word, then select this icon from the menu that appears:

Pick one character from a story you've read this January Break. What was an important problem that character faced? Summarize the problem in 1-2 sentences.

Use this space to write any other thoughts, ideas, or questions you have about your January reading!

New Year, New Reading Goals and Reading Log

New Year, New Reading Goals and Reading Log

Reading Log Instructions! 📚

Check the box if you did some reading on that day:

Keep track here of the books you've read. Write the titles in a list.Tip: highlight the first word, then select this icon from the menu that appears:

Pick one character from a story you've read this January Break. What was an important problem that character faced? Summarize the problem in 1-2 sentences.

Use this space to write any other thoughts, ideas, or questions you have about your January reading!

Reading Log Instructions! 📚

Check the box if you did some reading on that day:

Keep track here of the books you've read. Write the titles in a list.Tip: highlight the first word, then select this icon from the menu that appears:

Pick one character from a story you've read this January Break. What was an important problem that character faced? Summarize the problem in 1-2 sentences.

Use this space to write any other thoughts, ideas, or questions you have about your January reading!

Keep track here of the books you've read. Write the titles in a list.

Tip: highlight the first word, then select this icon from the menu that appears:

Keep track here of the books you've read. Write the titles in a list.

Tip: highlight the first word, then select this icon from the menu that appears: