My Book Review Reading Response

Keep the book nearby so your child can look back for details. Fill in page one together the first time, then let your child write the response on page two and read it aloud.

Color stars to rate a book and plan a book review with an opinion, two reasons and who should read it, then write it. An opinion is what you think. A reason tells why. The directions on the page read: Read the topic. Then, write the book, color the stars, and write your opinion. Then, write two reasons and who should read it. Then, use this plan to write your draft on page 2. On page 2: Read your plan on page 1. Then, write a title. Then, write at least 5 sentences: your opinion, two reasons, and who should read the book.

Yes, both. We made it for 2nd Grade writing, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with reading response. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

A story map is a plan with boxes for the characters, the setting and the beginning, middle and end. Filling it in first makes the retelling on page two easier to write in order (RL.2.5).

Ask what the main character learned by the end. Then ask how that could help someone in real life. That answer, in your child's own words, is the lesson (RL.2.2).

No. Any story your child has read works for most sheets. Facts I Learned From a Nonfiction Book needs a book about real things, like animals or space.

No. Answers depend on the book your child chose. Check that each detail really happens in the book and that each opinion comes with a reason.

Second graders write opinion pieces with reasons (CCSS W.2.1), informative paragraphs with facts and a conclusion (W.2.2), and narratives with details, feelings and time words (W.2.3). They also begin to revise and edit with guidance (W.2.5).

An opinion tells what the writer thinks and why. A narrative tells a story in order. An informative piece teaches true facts about a topic. Each page in this topic names its type in the title, so you can choose the one you need.

Four to seven sentences is typical: a topic or opinion sentence, two or three supporting sentences and a closing sentence. The planning boxes on these pages help children organize before they write.

Not every sheet. The 36 opinion, narrative, informative and writing process sheets have an answer key with a marking guide and a model answer. The 10 two-page how-to and reading response sheets have no key, since each child writes their own steps or about their own book.