Summer Reading Responses
Get Ready for Fourth Grade!
1. Get "lost in a book."
2. Choose a prompt from the Fiction or Nonfiction Choice Board.
3. Write/type your response in a Reading Journal, or talk about your response with a family member.
Tips and Resources:
Fiction Choice Board
List two (or more) character traits that you would use to describe a character. Look at this list of character traits to help. Add text evidence to support your answer. | How has a main character changed throughout the story? Give examples from the story to support your thinking! | Compare and contrast yourself with the main character. What is the same and what is different? Include evidence from the text when describing the character. |
What is another title that would work for the story? Explain why it would be a good title. | Write a letter to persuade your teacher to read your book to the whole class. Remember to include examples from the text to support your argument! For example: If you say the book would make kids laugh, include a funny part from the story. | Create a text message conversation between you and either: a character from the story OR the author of the book. Include at least 8 texts in your conversation. |
Authors choose words to make you, the reader feel a certain way. Find a few phrases or sentences from your book and write how those words made you feel and explain why. | Compare and contrast this story with another story that you have read. | What was the author’s message from the story? If it helps, think about it this way: What message/lesson did the author want you to take away after reading? |
Fiction Choice Board
Create an award that you could give one character in the book. What is the award? Why would you give it to this character? BONUS! Draw or actually make the award! | Which character from the story reminds you of a character in another story you’ve read? Don’t forget to explain why! | If you could meet the main character of the story, what questions would you ask him/her? Why? What answers do you think they would give? |
What was your least favorite part of the story? How would you change it to make it better? | Think about the setting(s) in the story. How is the setting important to the story? How would the story change if the setting was different? BONUS! Write a bit of the story in the new setting! | Depending on the story you read, retell and illustrate the: funniest, scariest, saddest, or most action-packed part of the story. BONUS! Tell why you chose this part. |
What are you still wondering/ what questions do you still have after reading? | Retell the three events from the story that you think are most important. Tell why. BONUS! Illustrate! | Rewrite the ending of the story to have a different outcome. |
Nonfiction Choice Board
Write three questions that you can answer about your topic after reading. Don’t forget to give the answers! | How does the author show that he/she is an expert on the topic? Give examples from the text. | Find three (or more) new words in the text. Use context clues and/or a dictionary to define these words. BONUS! Write each new word in a sentence. |
What text feature (s) did you use while reading? How did it support your understanding of the information? | Why did you choose to read about this topic? Will you read more about this topic? Why or why not? | What are the five most interesting facts you learned from this book? |
What was the most surprising thing you learned from reading this book? Why did it surprise you? | Think about the topic you read about today. Write a letter to persuade someone else to read about this topic. | How did the nonfiction book you read inspire you to think differently? What action could you take now? |