Independent Reader's Notebook Reading Response Journal Comprehension Activities

Using a reader's notebook or response journal in your class or at home with your child is a great way to improve students' reading comprehension and increase their reading engagement! Independent reading provides students choice in their reading materials, and research has shown that this choice is a huge motivational factor to students.
 
This notebook is designed to be used for any kind of independent reading - Reading Workshop, Accelerated Reader, or any other kind of reading where students have choice in what they read. This notebook can be used in classrooms or at home. It allows students to track their reading progress, practice comprehension strategies, and develop their identities as readers!
 
Print the pages you want to use. Some pages, like the Reading Summary and Book Review, you may want multiple copies of for each student. The packet includes two choices of cover pages, one with a boy reader image and one with a girl reader image. Students can color and decorate their cover pages to personalize them.
 
You can compile the notebook in any manner you like. I would recommend keeping the Reader Profile, Want to Read, Reading Log, and Bookshelf pages at the front, if you choose to use all of them, but the remaining pages can be used however you like.
 
You might bind the pages into a book, glue them into a notebook, or keep them in a binder. The binder has generally been my preference, as I like the ability to add pages and move pages around whenever I like.
 
This is something students can keep for the entire school year, continuing to add to it as they read. At the end of the year, they can look back and see all they’ve accomplished as readers! This is a resource you will definitely put to great use!