Reading Log/ Response Journals. The students completed weekly reading
assignments which included chapters from the course texts. To support the students'
engagement with reading and help them make connections with the story, a readerresponse
prompt was given to each student for the discussion on the fourth week.
They were required to respond to those questions on the prompts and write a short
essay to each question for discussion on the following week. This was considered
important to help students construct meaning from the text. Those questions, guiding
the students' thinking after they read, were listed as follows: