Reading Journal Template (Page 3 of 4) in pdf

Activity 3

Blurb Match

A blurb is a short description of a book. Where can you find it?

Please match the names of the books with the blurbs below.

Kaori is 13 and lives on the island of Lucertola. The island is very hot

Kaori and the

and it doesn’t rain very often. There isn’t much water and there aren’t

Lizard King

many children. Something is happening but what?

Kaori wants some answers … and goes to find them.

‘Everyday is the same. Nothing exciting ever happens to me,’ things

Give us the

Adam one boring Monday morning. But today is not the same. When he

Money

helps a beautiful young woman because some men want to take her

bag, life gets exciting and very, very dangerous.

Phileas Fogg believes that he can travel around the world in eighty

Around the

days. Can he do it? This book is a wonderful story of Phileas’s

World in 80 Days

adventures as he travels from country to country with his servant

Passepartout.

Ricardo and Gisela are going home to Rio. Gisela likes reading and

Big Bag Mistake

quite people. Ricardo likes noise … and he likes Gisela. In Rio, a thief

takes Gisela’s bag. What can Ricardo do?

Activity 5

Extensive Reading Activities

Some sample ideas of semi-extensive and extensive reading activities:

Drawing and designing:

• Design a new cover for your book.

• Draw a series of pictures illustrating the story or main events of the

story.

• Draw a map showing where the story takes place.

• Design a

movie

poster for your book.

• Make a time line of major events in the book

• Create a bingo game which includes words like names of characters,

places and items from the story.

• Design an advertisement for T.V., radio or newspaper, trying to sell the

book.

• Make up a “wanted” poster for one of the characters.

Writing:

• Write a letter to one of the characters.

• Write a diary for one of the characters.

• Make up a different ending for the story.

• Make up a different beginning for the story.

• Have an interview with one of the characters.

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