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MERG LET´S LEARN ABOUT READING LOGS OR BOOK JOURNALS!
EFOR
MAT7 The following information provides the readers with fundamentals about the importance
of keeping logs during the reading process. Read them carefully and take them as
guidelines in your READING LOGS WRITING process.

What is a reading log or book journal?

A reading log or book journal allows the reader to NOTE reactions, opinions, feelings,
ideas about a reading text. The reading log permits the students to express responses
naturally, and at the same time to gain insight into the theme and plot, and to deepen the
overall enjoyment of reading a text of literature.

Positive aspects of keeping a reading log:

✓ It can be hand-written or electronic.
✓ It makes connections to personal learning: question, analyze, relate, respond and
interpret information.
✓ It helps to gain new understanding and improve communication: written and oral.
✓ It does not focus on punishing grammar or usage.
✓ It allows to write for a real purpose and to interact naturally with the literature
text.

TIPS:
o Use it for works of literary: poetry, plays, short stories or novels.
o Great writers have kept these strategies to document their reading experiences, in
order to gain ideas, and techniques among others.
o Write informal, naturally and to communicate ideas.

If you want to learn more about READING LOGS, here you have some pages to visit:
- How to Write a Journal Response to a Book
http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Journal-Response-to-a-Book
- How to Write a Journal Response
http://penandthepad.com/write-journal-response-5022270.html

REFERENCES
This document is a summary done by Claudia Uribe Hoyos based on
Lombardi, E. (2016). How to Keep a Reading Log or Book Journal. Retrieved from
http://classiclit.about.com/od/forstudents/ht/aa_readinglog.htm

READING LOG #1
(Record your reactions on the story following the instructions.)

Material designed by Claudia Maria Uribe Hoyos (2017)

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MERG Title of the text: Thirteen Guests__________________________________
EFOR Author: Joleene Naylor__________________________________________
MAT7 Two facts I looked about the author:

1) the writer is fresh in her writing.

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2)
the writer developed her story in a youth context, the story even though he is a vampire does not
have the traditional plot of a romance
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A QUESTION I have to share with the class after reading this text.

why don't we risk reading in English?

WRITING DOWN MY FEELINGS

My first impression when I started reading the beginning of this story was
my impression was that it would be another book of stories about teenage vampires

In addition, when I reached part ___ Des motioned her opinion away. “I’m not worried about
Jorick. He won’t bother me, and I’m not going to bother him. It’s Torina. She wouldn’t accept an
apology.” He sighed and dropped further into the chair. “It’s probably just as well. Jorick is her
hero, and I can’t live up to the guy’s legend. As for Anya, no way will she forgive me. Truth is I
don’t want her to. Last thing I need is tangled up in her mess. But now I don’t know what to do. I
could go home, I guess, but why bother? There’s nothing there now. Benjamin’s dead, and
Herrick’s dead, and Micah’s off with Jorick and his bunch. Marcellus left years ago. Maybe it’s time
I do the same, though I don’t know where to go.” __, I was feeling
______________________________

_ intrigued by the reaction of people, I thought about the emotions they felt at that moment.
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MERG At the end of the story, I was thinking __
EFOR I thought I should improve my pronunciation and reading habit in English.
MAT7 _______________________________________
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Name: ___Tiziana Yulieth Montoya Díaz____________________________________

English __4_____ Group __5________
Class Day:_______________
Today´s Date: ____________

RECORDING MY EMOTIONAL RESPONSE

While reading this story I was _entertaining and waint for the reaction of the characters in
the story_____
___________________. It was when I read the following paragraph:

Des motioned her opinion away. “I’m not worried about Jorick. He won’t bother me, and I’m
not going to bother him. It’s Torina. She wouldn’t accept an apology.” He sighed and dropped
further into the chair. “It’s probably just as well. Jorick is her hero, and I can’t live up to the
guy’s legend. As for Anya, no way will she forgive me. Truth is I don’t want her to. Last thing I
need is tangled up in her mess. But now I don’t know what to do. I could go home, I guess, but
why bother? There’s nothing there now. Benjamin’s dead, and Herrick’s dead, and Micah’s off
with Jorick and his bunch. Marcellus left years ago. Maybe it’s time I do the same, though I don’t
know where to go.”

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Medellín: Universidad Católica Luis Amigó
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MERG
EFOR
MAT7

PASTE OR COPY THE PARAGRAPH

All these lines made me felt_ These lines make me feel that sometimes things

just have to happen, Friends are part of our life, but it is normal that there are differences in how

we think, that makes us human.

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If you ask me about this story, I have to tell you that __

This story is fresh and easy to understand ____________________________
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Do I recommend this story?

YES
x

NO

Reading Log devised by Claudia Uribe H. March, 2017

Lombardi, E. (2016) How to Keep a Reading Log or Book Journal. Retrieved from
http://classiclit.about.com/od/forstudents/ht/aa_readinglog.htm

Material designed by Claudia Maria Uribe Hoyos (2017)

Medellín: Universidad Católica Luis Amigó