Reading Learning Target Journals

DAILY during Prime Time, choose one prompt and write it on the board or overhead for students to see. Students should be reading with the purpose of answering the prompt at the end of the period. Student responses will be written in their Prime Time journal and assessed by their Prime Time teacher.

Target 1:

Demonstrate understanding of theme or message and supportive details.

Prompt One: GLE 2.1.3

What is the main idea of your book? Provide three quotes for support. Be sure to include page numbers.

Prompt Two: GLE 2.1.3

Write one sentence that best demonstrates the theme of your book. Defend your response with evidence from the text.

Prompt Three: GLE 2.1.3

Create a graphic organizer in which you outline the theme, three main ideas and at least two supporting details for each main idea.

Target 2:

Summarize with evidence from the reading.

Prompt One: GLE 2.1.7

Select a sentence that best summarizes the text. Explain your reasoning.

Prompt Two: GLE 2.1.7

Write an opening sentence that you think best introduces a summary of your book. Explain why you think this introductory sentence works.

Prompt Three: GLE 2.1.7

Summarize the book you’re most recently completed. Include an introductory statement, main ideas and supporting text-based details.

Target 3:

Make inferences or predictions based on the reading.

Prompt One: GLE 2.1.5

Based on the information in the story, what do you predict the main character will do next?

Prompt Two: GLE 2.1.5

Based on the information in the story, what will happen at the end of the book? Provide evidence for your prediction.

Prompt Three: GLE 2.1.5

Make two inferences about the main character’s past that are not explicitly discussed in the book.

Target 4:

Interpret general and specialized vocabulary critical to the meaning of the text.

Prompt One: GLE 1.3.1

Write one word that you did not know from the section for the book you have just read. What do you think this word means based on the context of this passage? Look up the definition of this word and write it’s meaning next to yours.

Prompt Two: GLE 1.3.2

Choose one word you did not know from this section. Look up this word in the dictionary and write the definition. Now use this word correctly in an original sentence.

Prompt Three: GLE 1.2.1

Look up the definition or one word that you did not know form this section. Write down the definition. Using a thesaurus, look up the word and write 3-5 synonyms for this word.

Target 5:

Apply understanding of literary elements.

Prompt One: GLE 2.3.3

What keeps you interested in this book? Explain.

Prompt Two: GLE 2.3.3

What type of setting (time and place) is evident in your book? Is there more than one setting in your book? If so, where and when do they take place?

Prompt Three: GLE 2.3.3

Who is the main character in your book? How does the author create this character so you can identify with him or her?

Target 6:

Compare/Contrast elements of the text or make connections within the text.

Prompt One: GLE 2.3.1

What is the similarity between two of the characters in your book?

Prompt Two: GLE 2.3.1

How does the main character’s feelings compare with your own?

Prompt Three: GLE 2.3.1

How are the characters in your book different from each other?

Target 7:

Compare/contrast or make connections between or among texts or synthesize information from a variety of resources.

Prompt One: GLE 2.3.1

Choose an event in your book and explain why it happened. Use two details from the story.

Prompt Two: GLE 2.3.1

What problem or problems does the main character face in your story.

Prompt Three: GLE 2.3.1

How does the main character resolve their problem.

Target 8:

Analyze the author’s purpose and evaluate effectiveness for different audiences.

Prompt One: GLE 2.4.2

What do you think the author’s purpose was for writing this book?

Prompt Two: GLE 2.4.3

Who do you think the author’s audience is?

Prompt Three: GLE 2.4.4

How effective do you think the author was in reaching his or her audience? Give a detail from the story to support your opinion.

Target 9:

Evaluate reasoning and ideas/themes related to the text.

Prompt One: GLE 2.4.1

What is wrong with the character’s reasoning in the story? What decisions or choices could have been improved?

Prompt Two: GLE 2.4.1

Why does the character act the way he or she does? Include two details fro mthe text to support your response.

Prompt Three: GLE 2.4.1

Does the character’s treatment of others seem fair? Give two examples why or why not from the story.

Target 10:

Extend information beyone text (make generalizations beyond the text to a broader idea or concept, or apply information to other texts or situations, or give a response to reading).

Prompt One: GLE 2.4.5

Who might benefit the most from reading this story?

Prompt Two: GLE 2.4.7

How does the author feel about the nature of conflict?

Prompt Three: GLE 2.4.5

Provide two examples from the story that you could use to convince someone to do something.

ALTERNATE PROMPTS (Good for Non-Ficion)

I think… I’m reminded of…

I’m bothered by… I noticed that…

I’m confused by… I’m puzzled by…

I wonder… I think the author is saying that…

I believe… I wished that…

I want… I have questions about…

I liked or disliked…

I’m feeling about the character(s)…