• Noting new vocabulary words
• Writing about the character they identified with
• Making predictions about what might happen next
• Writing about the part they liked
• Writing about how the reading made them feel
• Writing about what they would have done in the particular situation described
• Writing about how they could use what they just read about
Entries may be open ended or directed, e.g. what advice would you give the character, what do you think will happen if this story continued, or how the character is like me.