Vote! by Eileen Christelow-A Nonfiction Book Response Journal

This book is an excellent nonfiction book explaining the voting process and why it is important. This book and journal can be an important part of your social studies curriculum and teaching- and it supports common core! This 43 page journal includes close reading and comprehension questions, constructed response questions, graphic organizers, and much more!
-Fiction vs. nonfiction
-What do you know about…
-Prediction
-Questions/Answers while I read
-18 Comprehension questions-close reading and constructed response, various levels.
-3 Writing prompts including text-to-self, author’s purpose, etc.
-2 Close Reading writing prompts

-Author's purpose
-Cause/Effect
-Important nouns
-Adjective Find
-Main idea

-Student rating page
-Favorite Part sketching
-Friendly letter writing
-Vocabulary cards for students
-Focus wall vocab. Cards
-Author’s viewpoint graphic organizer
-Summing it up…Writing Prompt
-3-2-1 Summarize graphic organizer
-What’s the Big Idea- graphic organizer
-5 page My Voting Fact Book
-Expository paragraph writing – planning web, graphic organizer, writing page
-Design your own persuasive poster


This can be used as a packet or as individual pages for a science learning center.
Thank you for considering this work!