Reading Response Prompts
Use at least three examples from the text to support your response.
Character
1. What word best describes the character?
2. Is the main character in the story anything
like you?
3. If you were the main character in the story,
what would you do differently?
4. Choose a character and describe how they
have changed throughout the story.
5. What challenges did one of the characters
face?
Plot
1. Compare the problem in story to a problem
you have experienced.
2. Do you think the title of the book fits the
story?
3. In your own words, summarize the last
chapter you read.
4. What is the main problem in the story?
5. What clues did the author give you that
helped you predict what was going to
happen in the story?
6. What is the climax of the story?
Setting
1. Does the setting of the story remind you of
anywhere you have been? Use examples from
your life and the book.
2. What line in the book best describes the
setting?
3. How would the story change if it took place in a
different setting?
4. How is the setting important to the book?
5. Compare the setting to a setting in another
book you have read.
Author
1. What lesson does the author try to teach you?
2. How does the author create the mood or tone
of the book?
3. What questions do you have unanswered that
you would like to ask the author?
4. What is the author’s purpose?
5. What is the genre of your book?