If the pink gorilla eats watermelon every night, how much watermelons does he eat? One Stop Teacher Shop. Resources. Make Homework Interesting!

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1 Resources Make Homework Interesting!

2 Name: Date: Four in a Row: Reading Homework FICTION Each week you will select four boxes in a row for your reading homework. The row can be horizontal, vertical, or diagonal. After reading your book each night, you must complete the activity in one box. By the end of the week, your row of activities should be complete. 1. Make a prediction based on what you read tonight. 5. If you could rewrite a part of the story, which part would it be and why? 2. Find 4 new words from tonight s reading and try using them in a sentence. 6. Identify the parts of the plot (rising action, climax, falling action) that you have read about so far. 3. Make a connection to tonight s reading. Your connection can be with another book, yourself, or something else you have heard or seen. 7. Illustrate your favorite part of the book from tonight s reading. 4. At this point in your book, have any of the characters changed? If so, how? 8. Write to the author or a character in the text about a part you read tonight. 9. Identify the story elements you have experienced in your reading so far. (Character, setting, problem, climax and solution) 10. Write a summary of tonight s reading. 11. Why do you think the author wrote this story? How do you know? 12. Create a comic strip of your favorite part of the story. 13. Which character do you feel you have the most in common with? Why? 14. Write one fact and one opinion about tonight s reading. 15. What is the mood or tone of tonight s reading? How do you know? 16. Write a summary of tonight s reading.

3 Name: Date: Four in a Row: Reading Homework NON-FICTION Each week you will select four boxes in a row for your reading homework. The row can be horizontal, vertical, or diagonal. After reading your book each night, you must complete the activity in one box. By the end of the week, your row of activities should be complete. 1. Based on the title or heading, what will you be learning about in tonight s reading? 5. Write one fact and one opinion from tonight s reading. 2. Choose a section or paragraph from tonight s reading and write the main idea. 6. How did the headings and sub-headings help you in tonight s reading? 3. How did the pictures help you understand what you read tonight? 7. Draw a chart or graph that could go with something you read about in tonight s reading. 4. Write a summary of tonight s reading. 8. Write a new title for the book you are reading. 9. Find 3 new words and write their definition. 10. Why did the author write this text? How do you know? 11. What is the main idea of what you read tonight? List 3 supporting details 12. What text features helped you the most in your reading tonight? 13. How did the author organize the text? (text structure) 14. Draw a picture of something you read about tonight. 15. What did you already know about tonight s topic? 16. Write 3 questions you have about what you read tonight? Try to find the answers.

4 My Weekly Reading Log Day Title of Book Author Page Started Page Ended Minutes Read Genre Parent Initials Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

5 Name Date: Stop-and-Jot Your Thoughts While reading each night, you might make connections, have questions, find answers, make predictions, find shocking information, learn something new, or visualize what you are reading. Each night, be sure to jot your thoughts and ideas in the boxes below. By the end of the week, your boxes should be filled. Connection: Text to Text, Text to World, or Text to Self. (This reminds me of ) Question (I wonder ) Answer (I think ) Prediction (I think will happen next because ) Shocking Information (I can t believe ) New Learning (I didn t know that ) Visualization (draw a picture of what you saw in your head while you were reading.)

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