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ACTIVITY 3.1

Using a Reading Log

Learning skills: recording, inquiring, persisting

WHY

Reading in conjunction with a reading log will help you become more aware of your skills as a reader.
Once you begin to appreciate your skills, you can learn to strengthen and improve them. Using a reading
log will also help you use and benefit from the steps in the Reading Methodology, increasing your focus,
content retention, and comprehension of the text.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1. Learn to use a reading log.
2. Improve your awareness of your own reading habits.
3. Receive and give assessment feedback on reading logs.

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA

Criterion #1: your use of a reading log form
Attributes:
a. each applicable prompt has an associated response
b. responses are appropriate and demonstrate comprehension of the prompt

Criterion #2: your written assessment of another student’s reading log
Attributes:
a. includes at least one strength, area for improvement, and insight
b. includes a draft action plan for how improvements might be made

PLAN

1. With the help of your instructor, choose a reading for this or another course. You may want to talk
with other classmates about what they are currently reading for pleasure or about powerful books they
have read. You may even choose to re-read something you felt to be meaningful in past. We can never
really read the same book twice, because we are different people when we return to a book we have
previously read. Try this sometime!

2. As you read, fill out the reading log on the following pages.
3. Exchange reading logs with a partner and complete an assessment of his or her reading log, using the

assessment form found following the reading log.

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