Example Reading Response

Reader

Response #1

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Name:Ms. Sindt

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Per:3

TITLE OF BOOK / A Mouthful
AUTHOR / Paul Jennings
Prediction:
What will happen after the end of the novel based on the events that have already happened? / Reaction:
How do you feel about the book, plot, and characters? Explain why for all three. / Connection:
Connect the book to your world: a movie/TV show/book, a person, or yourself. Explain why you made that connection. / Quote:
Choose a quote from the author and tell why you think it’s an example of good writing. / Critique:
How do you feel about the way the author wrote the book or developed the plot? How would you have written it differently?
GENRE:Fiction / REVIEW: / LENGTH:2 pages
SUMMARY(30 PTS)
  • Include at least 4 descriptive sentences.
  • Write 45 (min) to 60 (max) words.
/ The narrator is embarrassed by her dad. Every time one of her friends sleeps over, he pulls a prank on them. When Anna sleeps over, her dad pretends to eat cat poo that he hides under Anna’s pillow. Anna is so grossed out that she leaves, and the narrator yells at her father. But when her dad tries to play the same trick on her new friend Cynthia, it ends up backfiring. The narrator removes the fake poo before her dad comes in, and the cat just happens to leave some real poo behind…and her dad ends up eating it.
RESPONSE TYPE / Prediction
RESPONSE(30 PTS)
  • Use at least 4 sentences.
  • Explain why.
/ I predict that the narrator’s dad won’t pull so many pranks in the future. I think he learned his lesson because once he tasted the real poo, he probably realized how pranks might backfire on him. I also think he learned that practical jokes aren’t always as amusing to the victims as they are to the prankster.
LITERARY DEVICE(30 PTS)
  • Use APE structure.
A: name and define it
P: include a quote with page # or percentage
E: explain it
  • Use at least 4 sentences.
/ Situational irony is when you expect things to happen a certain way, but they end up happening in a way you did not expect. In A Mouthful, it is ironic when the narrator tells us, “Dad looks at the cat. Then he rushes over to the window and is sick” (p.2). This is ironic because the reader would expect the same result when the dad plays his cat poo joke for the second time on Cynthia. Instead, the narrator anticipates what he will do and beats him at his own game--Dad ends up eating real poo, and gets a taste of his own medicine.

Reader

Response #1

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Name:

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Per:

TITLE OF BOOK
AUTHOR
Prediction:
What will happen after the end of the novel based on the events that have already happened? / Reaction:
How do you feel about the book, plot, and characters? Explain why for all three. / Connection:
Connect the book to your world: a movie/TV show/book, a person, or yourself. Explain why you made that connection. / Quote:
Choose a quote from the author and tell why you think it’s an example of good writing. / Critique:
How do you feel about the way the author wrote the book or developed the plot? How would you have written it differently?
GENRE: / REVIEW:  / LENGTH:
SUMMARY(30 PTS)
  • Include at least 4 descriptive sentences.
  • Write 45 (min) to 60 (max) words.

RESPONSE TYPE*
RESPONSE(30 PTS)
  • Use at least 4 sentences.
  • Explain why.

LITERARY DEVICE* (30 PTS)
  • Use APE structure.
A: name and define it
P: include a quote with page # or percentage
E: explain it
  • Use at least 4 sentences.

*Response type and literary device must be different than those used on your first Reader Response.