Double journal entries are a reading strategy that encourages critical thinking. They require listing facts from the text in one column and reflections on those facts such as connections, reactions, new questions, changes in predictions, and impacts on characters or plots in a second column. This helps readers engage with and think more deeply about what they are reading beyond just memorizing facts.
Double journal entries are a reading strategy that encourages critical thinking. They require listing facts from the text in one column and reflections on those facts such as connections, reactions, new questions, changes in predictions, and impacts on characters or plots in a second column. This helps readers engage with and think more deeply about what they are reading beyond just memorizing facts.
Double journal entries are a reading strategy that encourages critical thinking. They require listing facts from the text in one column and reflections on those facts such as connections, reactions, new questions, changes in predictions, and impacts on characters or plots in a second column. This helps readers engage with and think more deeply about what they are reading beyond just memorizing facts.
Double journal entries help you to think critically about your reading. They act as a reading strategy to help you go beyond just the facts.
Here’s what they look like:
FACTS THINKING
List the facts in your own How do you connect and react to Words the facts?
Write what you remember
What have your learned from the List any information from the information? Do you have new questions? reading, illustrations, and diagrams How does this information change your predictions?