McGee Summer Reading
Response Choices
Each time you finish a book, choose one of these reading response questions and type a final copy of your response on a separate sheet of paper. If you are unable to type your response, you may write it neatly by hand.
1. What important lessons does ___________ (insert character’s name) learn in this story? Use examples from the story to support your answer.
2. How does ___________ (insert character’s name) change in the story? Use details from the story to explain your answer.
3. If the author had added another paragraph to the end of the story, it would most likely have described the _____________. Use information from the text to support your prediction.
4. Think about someone who did something like the character in the book. Tell how that experience was like the experience of ___________ (insert character’s name) in the story.
5. Think about what this story says about people in general. In what ways does it remind you of people you have read about or people you know? Support your answer with evidence from the story.
6. Which part of the story do you think was most important? Use details from the story and your own life to explain why you chose that part.
7. What kind of person do you think the author is? Use information from the story to support your answer.
8. Which part of the story was most interesting or surprising? Use information from the story to support your answer.
9. How did ___________’s (insert character’s name) beliefs guide his/her actions?
10. Why do you think the author chose to write this book?