Summer Reading Journal BUNDLE: 21 Books, MS-Adults, plus generic templates!

Ever wished for premade independent reading journals specific to the texts your students read? Here they are! This collection of fiction and non-fiction texts covers levels from middle school to adulthood and is a GROWING bundle to which I will add as I develop new reading guides (journals). It works fantastically for summer reading or winter break homework, too. The journals are designed to increase engagement by forcing students to engage meaningfully with the texts rather than asking for just a summary or surface-level reaction.

Many higher-level texts are also scaffolded to allow English Learners to better access the texts on their own.

BOTH NON-FICTION AND FICTIONAL READING GUIDES INCLUDE:

• Vocabulary charts of words to define from each specific book
• Reading charts to both summarize and respond to each chapter
• RESPONSE portions encourage text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world connections
• Numbered chapters and parts to each book
• Book Review/Recap page at the end of each guide

THE LITERARY/FICTIONAL READING GUIDES also INCLUDE:

• Guided analysis and questions about characters in the book
• Thematic and topical analysis in the review/recap at guide's end

THE INFORMATIONAL/NON-FICTION READING GUIDES also INCLUDE:

• Structured analysis of important people, events and/or topics in each book
• Extension questions that often encourage students to extend their learning into small, short research tasks

FICTIONAL READING JOURNALS cover the following novels:

• 1984
• Catch 22—with TWO levels of vocabulary
• * NEW! * -- Grapes of Wrath, with THREE levels of differentiation so you can use the same text in different levels, classes, etc.
• Animal Farm
• Frankenstein
• Hatchet
• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Jane Eyre—with newly more-detailed character questions!
• Lord of the Flies
• Peter Pan (the classic tale by JM Barrie)
• The Giver
• The House on Mango Street--updated May 2024 with chapter titles!
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• General template that can be used with all novels

NON-FICTION READING JOURNALS cover the following texts:

• Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins--has language! Use with adult learners, or have students buy the clean version
• The Data Detective by Tim Harford: great for teaching critical thinking & data analysis; appropriate for summer reading for university students or adults! Use with AP Lang/STEM subjects with CAUTION/pre-read carefully. (This one is a lengthy text and journal and contains a LOT of very specific guided reading questions; it is great to use alongside or before a unit on this book.)
• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
• Quiet by Susan Cain (which might be an interesting contrast to Carnegie's book)
• How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler
• The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich
• Spillover by David Quammen
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
• A generic non-fiction template that can be used with any non-fiction text.
• A template written specifically for biographies.