Reading journal to foster reading strategies.  Ideal for distance learning or working independently on novels.

Age: 10th grade - Abitur

 
Includes:

• 5 x pages full of fun questions to foster literary competences. One page per chapter.
  
• 3 x pages with one section open for the teacher to include specific questions related to the studied novel. One page per chapter.
  
• 1 x special page on characterisation (direct vs. indirect characterisation, static vs. dynamic characters).
• 1 x rubric/criteria list to grade the journal and enable more transparency for the student.
• 1 x special page to analyse rhetorical devices.
• 1 x page dedicated to before and after reading the novel (expectations and giving feedback).
  

The pages of the journal..

• use operators that are important for the Abitur (e.g. illustrate, state, explain).
• use questions that foster reading strategies (e.g. predicting, questioning, make connexions).
• use student-orientated fun questions that enable creativity and motivate teenagers (e.g. writing a twitter status or inventing an instagram account for a character).
• ask questions that relate to the story plot/development, character analysis and narrator types.