Day One: Contrast your current independent reading book with another book you have read in the past.
How are the structures of the two texts different?
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Day Two: Pick a place in your reading tonight where the author’s word choice impacted the meaning of
the story.
Write down that word or phrase and discuss the meaning of it to the story.
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Day Three: Analyze the point of view the author has used to write this story.
If this story were written
in a different point of view, how would it hurt or help the reader?
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Day Four: Make a prediction about what will happen next in your book based off of evidence from the text.
(I predict that ___________ will happen next because in my book __________________.)
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Day Five: Critique a decision that the author made about the plot while writing this book.
(I like/dislike
how the author______________ because _________________.)
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