SSR+ Assignment Sheet You will be asked to do different assignments from this sheet at different times throughout the year. Staple this to the inside cover of your Reader’s/Writer’s Notebook.

Metacognitive Log and Questions Book Title:Author:Total Pages in Book: Date:Page I started on: Page I ended on: Minutes I was actively engaged in reading: Sentence Starters: While I was reading… I felt confused when…and so I… I was distracted by…but then I… I started to think about…and so I… I got stuck when…What I did was… The time went quickly because… I remember that earlier in the text… Sentence Starters Cont.…. A word/some words I did not know… I stopped because…What I did next was… I lost track of everything except… I figured out that… I first thought…but then realized… I finally understood…because…

Exit Tickets (Choose 3) 1.The “Trailer”: Give you most enthusiastic preview and summary of the highlights of the book. Tell me what you liked. 2.Connections: Any connections to any other books you’ve read or movies you have seen? 3.The “Lowlights”: Here is your chance to nitpick and complain! What did you not like? Where did the author miss the mark? Did the plot fall short? Was the vocab too difficult or style of writing too unusual? 4.Questions: Things that make you go hmmmm…? 5.Recommend it: Thumbs up or thumbs down? Explain why you do or do not recommend this book to the class. This is different than highlights or lowlights.

Book Talk 1.Bring a copy of the book with you. 2.Tell us the title and author. 3.Read a short passage to get us hooked. Don’t give away the ending or any important plot points, just read enough to make us want to read the book ourselves. 4.Practice what you are going to say BEFORE you come to class.

Literary Letters 1.It must be written in letter form. 2.It should contain the following: insights on you as a reader, the process you go through when you read, and how you address challenges during your reading. 3.It should NOT contain: a summary or a review of any particular book, although you may reference books that you have read in your letter

Reading Rate: You will calculate your reading rate at the beginning of each card marking and record the number on the reading rate chart I provide. Reading Rate Formula: 1.Read a text for ten minutes. 2.Record the number of pages read in those ten minutes. 3.Multiply that number by six (there are six blocks of ten minutes in one hour). 4.Double that number (how far students should get after two hours of reading, which is the total number of minutes you should be reading per week at home.).

Book Ranking Reading Ladder: A chart or table that shows the books you’ve read this card marking in order of easiest to hardest. * Review: write a short (3-8 sentence) review of each book you finished this card marking. Your review should include an explanation of their placement on your reading ladder. Comparison: Add up the total pages read, and divide by weeks in the card marking to determine your average pages read per week. Compare this to your reading rate. Reflect on the difference between the two. Goals: Set goals for the next card marking. Use your comparison reflection to inform your goal. These should be specific. *Some ways to define “most difficult”: 1. The size of the text and number of pages. 2.The subject matter (romance vs memoir). 3.The speed in which you finished. 4.Whether it was a new author or one that is well known to you. Possible Goals—Be Specific 1.I will read at least one non fiction book. 2.I will read one Jane Austen novel. 3.I will read 15 books by Winter Break. 4.I will develop an at home reading habit