Woody’s Summer Academic Challenge

Reading

After reading for 20 minutes, select 1 reading response from Woody’s Reading Response Prompts. Do your very best with your response. Woody wants to hear from you about all of the great books you are reading this summer!

Email your response to

In your email, copy and paste the following. Be sure to fill this information in on your response.

Student first & last name

Book Title

Author

Reading Response Number

Every reading response will earn 1 Bobcat Point.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Can I use the same books I am reading for the summer reading library programs?

YES, ABSOLUTELY

  • How will I know if Woody received my email?

IF YOU DO NOT HEAR FROM WOODY WITHIN 2 DAYS, PLEASE RESEND THE EMAIL

  • Can I still participate even if I don’t have a computer or access to the library?

YES, PLEASE CALL THE SCHOOL BEFORE May 27, 2015

Math

Please go to and sign up for this Summer Math Challenge. Each day, complete the fun math activities. At the end of the program on 7/31, print the award certificate and bring in the certificate the first week of school. You will receive 10 Bobcat points for your printed certificate.

Those students earning 30 Bobcat points will participate in a celebration at the beginning of the 2015-2016 School Year.

Woody’s SUMMER Academic Challenge runs from Monday, June 15-Friday, July 31st

Woody’s Reading Response Prompts

Choose the prompt that works best with your selected reading.

Fiction

  1. Identify an important event in the text. Explain 2 reasons why the important event occurred.
  2. Describe the setting of the story. Explain how you know using 2 details from the text. Have you ever been to a place like this? Would you ever like to go to a place like this? Give reasons.
  3. Choose 1 main character in the text. Describe him/her using at least 2 character traits. Use details from the story to support your answer.
  4. Who tells this part of the text? How do you know? Is this the best person to tell it? Explain your answer.
  5. Who tells this part of the text? How do you think the narrator felt about the characters and events? Why do you think that?
  6. Who do you know that would like this passage or text you are reading? Give specific reasons.
  7. What were the important events in this part of the text? Write a summary. Be sure to put them in the correct sequence, or order.
  8. What is the central message, or theme, of this story? What parts of the story support your answer?
  9. How did the author mainly organize this story? Did the author write the story in sequence (or order), or did the author write the events out of order? Use details from the story to support your answer. Did you like how the author organized it? Why/why not?
  10. Pick 1 character from the story. Explain why/why not you would like to have him/her as a friend. Use details from the story to support your answer.
  11. Pretend a special delivery passage just arrived in the story you are reading. What is inside? Which character is if for?
  12. What song do you know that reminds you of this book? What is the song mostly about? Why did you choose it? Use details from the story to support your answer?
  13. Choose a character from the story. If this character had a magic tree, what would grow on it? Why? Would any other character benefit from this magic tree?

Woody’s Reading Response Prompts

Choose the prompt that works best with your selected reading.

Informational (Nonfiction)

  1. What is the main idea of the passage? Explain how you know using 3 details from the text to support your answer.
  2. Identify 2 text features (tables, diagrams, headings, captions, etc.) the author used in this passage. Explain what information you learned because of these text features.
  3. What do you think the author wants the reader to know about this part of the text? Explain your answer using information from the text.
  4. Write a summary of what you read today. Be sure to include main ideas and details.
  5. Explain the most interesting thing you learned from your reading today. Why did it stand out to you? Use details from the text to support your answer.
  6. After reading today, what 2 questions do you have? What details from the text sparked your questions? Where could you find the answers to your questions? Explain at least 2 places you could look.
  7. Choose 2 interesting words you found while you were reading today. Do these words have any prefixes or suffixes? If so, what are they? Use a dictionary to find out the meaning and write sentences for each word. Can you think of any synonyms or antonyms for the words?
  8. How did the author mainly organize this story? Did the author write the story in sequence (or order), main idea and details, cause and effect, compare and contrast, or question and answer? Use details from the story to support your answer. Did you like how the author organized it? Why/why not?
  9. Pretend you are the author of this story, and you have chosen to write another book? What will your book be about this time? Why? How will you organize it? Where will you get your information?
  10. Write 3 newspaper headlines about the information you learned in this book? Why did you choose these headlines? What section should these newspaper stories be found in the newspaper?
  11. Use the internet to research more information on the topic you are reading about. Choose 1 website to share. What is the name of the website? What new information did you learn? Do you think this a website with correct information?