2.  What is the first book that you can remember?  What is the first book you read all by yourself?  What was the first series you read?  What was the most meaningful book from your childhood?  What was the most meaningful book from your teenage years?  What is the longest book you’ve read?  What book could you NOT put down?  What book did you hate reading?  What’s your favorite book?

3.  Create a reading history timeline.  On your timeline, place the following things:  an image or artistic representation for each of the books you have identified,  a estimate of how old (or grade level) you were when you read the book,  and a six-word statement about the book and your relationship with it.