1. Reading Response Journals You will become better READERS!!

2. Connect the text to… WORLD

3. Connect the text to…

4. TEXT

5. The Maze Runner Can you make a connection to other text? Is Maze Runner like Hunger Games? – Children need to survive and are afraid of their future?

6. The Maze Runner Can you make a connection to yourself? Thomas has to adapt to a new environment. Have you every had to adapt to a new environment?

7. The Maze Runner Can you make a connection to the world? – What about issues surrounding child labour? – What is child labour? It is work that children should not be doing because they are too young to work, or – if they are old enough to work – because it is dangerous or otherwise unsuitable for them. World Vision

8. That’s not enough… …you need EXAMPLES & DETAILS!

9. Sentence Starters I wonder why… I don’t see how… I can’t believe… Why did…? It bothered me when… I was surprised… I can’t really understand…

10. More sentence starters I began to think of… When I finished reading, I thought… I agreed/disagreed with the author about… If I were the author I would have changed the part of the story when… My feelings about the (character, book) changed when…

11. I am like or different from the character… Some important details I noticed were…they were important because… One thing that confused me was when… This makes me feel… This reminds me of… I think… will happen next. I can imagine what…looked/sounded/felt/tasted like. I think…