A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park - Reader Response Journal and Rubric

A Long Walk to Water by Newbery Award winning author Linda Sue Park is an incredible reading experience, one that I'd recommend to any middle school classrom! This product is a set of 24 printable writing prompt worksheets that will encourage your students to think critically and share their thoughts in a well written paragraph. A rubric for self-evaluation and teacher assessment will help both students and teachers stay on track with the writing task.

The New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours’ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. This product is a great way to help students process the events of the book and also improve their writing/communication skills. Empathy and Academics in one?!?!? #winning

This Product Includes

• A nine-day page breakdown to read the novel A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park.
• A targeted journal write question/prompt for each chapter of the book (18 total).
• A generic writing prompt page focusing on text connections (text to self, text to text, text to world) connections that can be used at any point in time with the story.
• An extension prompt list focusing on extending elements of the book in new and interesting ways.
• A list of journal writing tips for students.
• A rubric for teachers to use to evaluate the writing products created by their students with these prompts. Students can also use this rubric to self-score/evaluate their writing.
• A link to an audio file of the first to chapters in the book.

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