Student’s Name:________________________________________________________________________________________
Expository Nonfiction (Text Features, Main Ideas, Synthesizing, Unfamiliar Words)
4=100%
I do more than what’s expected by
reflecting on my learning and pushing
my thinking.
My Reading Focus/Stamina:
 I’m always prepared with an appropriate
amount of books in my baggy/bin.
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I follow our check out routine and put
books back in the correct bin.
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I stay in one spot in the room.
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I respect the readers around me.
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I read the whole time.
I rate myself accurately and honesty,
and use it to reflect on my reading and
set goals.
3=87%
I meet the requirements expected of me.
2=73%
I am meeting some of the
requirements expected of me.
1=60%
I am not meeting most of the
requirements expected of me.
My Reading Focus/Stamina:
 I’m always prepared with an
appropriate amount of books in my
baggy/bin.
My Reading Focus/Stamina:
 I’m not always prepared with an
appropriate amount of books in my
baggy/bin (too many or too little).
My Reading Focus/Stamina:
 I’m often not prepared with an
appropriate amount of books in my
baggy/bin (too many or too little).

I follow our check out routine and put
books back in the correct bin.
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I do not always follow our checkout
routine and don’t always put books
back in the correct bin.
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I do not follow our checkout routine
and don’t put books back in the
correct bin.
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I stay in one spot in the room.
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I did not stay in one spot in the room.
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I moved around in the room a lot.
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I respect the readers around me.
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I read most of the time.
I am distracting to readers or getting
distracted by the readers around me
some of the time.
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I am distracting to readers or getting
distracted by the readers around me
most of the time.
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I rate myself accurately and honestly
score rate.
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I read and some of the time.
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I wasted precious reading time.
I’m rating myself inaccurately or I forget
sometimes to rate myself.
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I’m not rating myself.
My Reading Volume:
 Not all books are on my Reading Log
and/or I don’t have all accurate
information on my list.
 I am not reading enough books that
are the genre we are studying.
My Reading Volume:
 I do not keep my Reading Log
up-to-date.
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I read books that are not the genre we
are studying.
My Reading Volume:
 I keep my Reading Log up-to-date and
accurate.
My Reading Volume:
 I keep my Reading Log up-to-date and
accurate.
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I read just right books at my letter
level.
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I read an appropriate amount of books
for my letter level.
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If I abandon a book, I have a good
reason.
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I read just right books at my letter
level.
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I am not reading enough just right
books at my letter level.
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I do not read just right books at my
letter level.
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I read an appropriate amount of books
for my letter level.
I use my Reading Log to make good
book choices and set goals for myself.
I mostly read books that are the genre
we are studying.
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If I abandon a book, I have a good
reason.
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If I abandon a book, I don’t have a
good reason.
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I’m abandoning too many books.
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I mostly read books that are the genre
we are studying.
I am not reading an appropriate
amount of books for my letter level.
I do not read an appropriate amount
of books for my letter level.
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Talking about My Reading SL.5.1:
 I always am next to my partner.
 I look at my partner when they’re
talking.
 I come prepared to share my thinking.
 Our conversation is focused on the
topic it should be.
 I build on my partner’s ideas instead of
just taking turns sharing.
 I use text evidence to support my ideas.
 I give my partner feedback to help
them improve.
 I use my partner’s feedback to set goals
and improve.
Talking about My Reading SL.5.1:
 I always am next to my partner.
 I look at my partner when they’re
talking.
My Written Responses to Reading
W.5.10:
 I use text features and my background
knowledge to predict how the text is
organized and the type of information I
expect in the text.
 I recognize when the text is not
following the order I predicted or the
author gives me unexpected
information.
 I can identify and understand main
ideas even if the text doesn’t have
headings or topic sentences.
 I see the difference between main ideas
and details. I use these main ideas, my
background knowledge, and my
responses to get the big ideas from
texts.
 I ask a variety of questions and use a
variety of strategies to answer them. I
do further research to answer lingering
questions.
 I use a variety of word solving
strategies. I can even use the meaning
of the whole section to infer the
meaning of unfamiliar words when the
definition isn’t right in the text.
My Written Responses to Reading
W.5.10:
 I use text features to predict how the
type of information I expect in the text.
 I can identify and understand main
ideas even if the text doesn’t have
headings or topic sentences.
 I see the difference between main ideas
and details.
 I ask a variety of questions and use a
variety of strategies to answer them.
 I notice bold or unfamiliar words in the
text and use context clues or glossaries
to figure out the meaning.
Teacher Comments:
Talking about My Reading SL.5.1:
 Sometimes I’m next to my partner.
Talking about My Reading SL.5.1:
 I am rarely next to my partner.
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Sometimes I look at my partner when
they’re talking.
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I don’t look at my partner when
they’re talking.
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Sometimes I come prepared to share
my thinking.
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I don’t come prepared to share my
thinking with post-its, charts, tracks
of my thinking, etc.
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Sometimes our conversation is
focused on the topic it should be.
We take turns sharing instead of
building on each other’s ideas.
I don’t have text evidence to support
my ideas.
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I am not talking about what I should
be.
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I come prepared to share my thinking.

Our conversation is focused on the
topic it should be.

I build on my partner’s ideas instead of
just taking turns sharing.
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I use text evidence to support my ideas.
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My Written Responses to Reading
W.5.10:
 I can identify text features, but I’m
not using them to think about text
organization or predict the type of
information in the text.
 I can repeat the main idea from the
headings and topic sentences, but am
not putting them in my own words to
understand the meaning.
 I am not seeing the difference
between main ideas and details. I’m
treating each fact with the same
importance, instead of looking for
main ideas and the big picture of
what the author is teaching me.
 I ask literal questions as I read and
some of the time use strategies to
answer them.
 When I get to an unfamiliar word I
use pictures or a dictionary to figure
out the meaning.
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We take turns sharing instead of
building on each other’s ideas.
 I don’t support my ideas using text
evidence.
My Written Responses to Reading
W.5.10:
 I’m ignoring text features.
 As I read I’m not looking for main
ideas and separating them from
details.
 I ask literal questions as I read.
 I’m skipping over bold or unfamiliar
words without using word solving
strategies to figure out the meaning.
Title
Author
Reading Log
(Shaded columns are completed at home only)
Genre
Guided
Date Start Start End
Reading
Time Pg.
Time
Letter Level
End
Pg.
Total
Pgs.
Rate
How I
Did
Family
Signature