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Double Entry Journal Template

Activity: Double Entry Journal

Purpose: To provide a structure for reading response, to make decisions about

significant aspects of text, and to reflect on personal connections to the text.

1. Provide students with a

Double-Entry Journal

or have them

make one.

2. Begin by explaining and modeling how to use a Double-Entry

Journal. Encourage text–self, text–text, and text–world

connections.

3. Have students read or listen to part of a text.

4. Ask students to select a key event, idea, word, quote, or

concept from the text and write it in the left column of the

Double Entry Journal.

5. In the right column of the Double Entry Journal, students

write connections and explain their responses to the item in

the left column.

6. Use the journals for large group discussions.

*Source: McLaughlin, M. & Allen, M.B. (2000). Guided

Comprehension: a teaching model for grades 3-8. Newark,

Delaware: International Reading Association.

Text – self connections occur when we make connections between personal

experiences and the text.

Text – text connections occur when we make connections between other texts

in relation to the text we are reading.

Text – world connections occur when we relate the text with what we already

know about the world.

Double Entry Journal Template