Sticky Notes can be used during reading to mark:

An interesting part
A prediction or guess
Something to infer to understand the text
Your connections to the text
Words you need help with
A new fact you learned
A part you dont understand
Thoughts you have about the text
Words or phrases you want to use in your writing
Your favorite part
A question you may have
Be sure to write the page numbers on the notes. Place the sticky
notes into your Readers Notebook on a page with the title of the
book and the date.

Proofreading Your Reading Letter

Did you:
Write neatly and use friendly letter format?
Refer to your reading notes and thinking stems chart before writing?
Reread your letter to make sure that it makes sense?
Put your best effort into making the letter thoughtful and reflective?
Check and correct your spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and
grammar?
Are you proud to sign your name to the letter? Does it show your best effort?
 Thinking Stems
Making Connections: Asking Questions:
This reminds me of I wonder
I have a connection How come
An experience I have had like that Why
This reminds me of the book _____ Im confused
because What if
How can I live differently because this I dont understand
book has been a part of my life?
Visualizing/Sensory Images: Inferring/Predicting:
In my mind I picture,,, I think
I visualized Maybe this means
I can see Im guessing
I can taste/hear/smell/feel This allows me to assume
I predict _____ because
Summarizing: Synthesizing:
So far this book is mostly about Im thinking that
The main ideas in this book are At first I thought _____, but now Im
Some important events are _____, thinking _____, because
because Im changing my thinking again
First, ____. Next, ____. Then, ____. I think the lesson or theme is
Finally, _____. These events have caused me to
believe
Authors Purpose: Evaluating:
What is this story really about? I agree with ____ because
What does this story say about the I dont think.
world?
Whose story is being told?
What are the big ideas (themes) I
have been identifying so far?
What is the lesson of this book?

Setting (Time and Place): Characters:

This story takes place If I were (characters name) I would
Something that I noticed about the The character that interests me most
 setting that I liked
I would/would not like to live during
this time period/in this place
because
Any words or phrases the author used
to describe the setting
Plot:
I think a problem in this story is
I think (characters name) will try to
solve it by
An event that I think might happen
next
Another way this story could have
ended
Predict how the character might
overcome an obstacle.
Author:
I think the author wrote this book
because
Its interesting how the author
Something I noticed about the
authors style
Id like to read another book by this
author because
Non-fiction Prompts:
Something that interests me about
this topic is
Something new I learned
I want to learn more about
Some questions I still have about the
topic are
The author made the topic interesting
by
An illustration or picture that
interested me the most was ____
because
Something I dont understand was
is ___ because
A character that really changed in the
story was I think this is true
because
I like/dont like (characters name)
because
Language:
I like the way the author described
____ is a new word for me. I think it
might mean ____ because
An interesting (word, phrase, or
sentence) that I noticed
____ is one of my favorite passages
because
*record the page numbers where you
noticed language.
Illustrator:
The illustrations in this story
From the illustration I learned
Something unique about the
illustrations is
The illustrations added meaning to
the story by
Open-ended Prompts:
If I could change one part of the
book
I wish
Something that surprised me was
As I read this section, I felt (excited,
upset, etc.) because
I liked/didnt like when ____
because
My favorite part was when ____
because
I noticed
I think the genre of this book is ____
because