Connect Four: Reading Reflection Homework
Name_____________________
Fiction
Directions: Each week, you will select four boxes in a row for your reading reflection homework. The
row can be horizontal, vertical, or diagonal. Pick four days out of a seven day week to complete an
activity in one of the boxes after your nightly reading. By the next week (Monday to Monday), your row
of activities should be complete.
1. Make a prediction
based on what you read
tonight. Explain your
reasons for this
prediction with text
evidence.
2. Find 4 new words
from tonight’s reading,
define them, and try
using them in a sentence.
3. Make a connection
to tonight’s reading.
Your connection can be
to another book,
yourself, or something
else you have heard or
seen.
4. At this point in your
book, have any of the
characters changed? If
so, how? If not, predict
how a character may
change.
5. If you could rewrite a
part of the story, which
part would it be and
why?
6. Write down a
“Golden” line from your
reading so far. “Golden”
lines are parts of the
story that stick out to
you as very important,
funny, or cause the
reader to become
emotional. Explain why
you picked these lines.
7. Illustrate your
favorite part of the
book from tonight’s
reading. Write at
least a one sentence
explanation of the
illustration.
8. Write to the author or
a character in the text
about a part you read
tonight. Make sure your
letter is at least one
paragraph and is in
friendly letter format
(Date, Greeting, Indented
paragraph(s), Closing, and
Signature).
9. Identify the story
elements you have
experienced in your
reading so far
(characters, setting,
problem, climax,
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. Identify the story
elements you have
experienced in your
reading so far
(characters, setting,
problem, climax,
solution)
16. Write a summary of
tonight’s reading.
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