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Literary Response Journals

Help students draw personal links to literature by reflecting on what they've read.

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Help students draw personal links to literature by reflecting on what they've read.

Get your students writing about literature with purpose.

When your students build a personal connection to a book, they’re more likely to make the necessary effort to understand it. Help them make those connections with literary Response Journals.

Each title-specific unit is filled with dozens of writing prompts that will encourage your students to express themselves, reflect on what they’ve read, and support their ideas with textual evidence.

Each Response Journal also includes a cumulative test focused on reading comprehension.

With more than 200 Response Journals available, your students will never run out of great writing opportunities.

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“The teaching guides including Teaching Units, Response Journals, Activity Packs, etc., are more important in my class than the textbook because these items help me teach my students to think on a deeper level and begin to analyze character motivations, as well as to think, ‘What if?’ or ‘What would happen if…?’”

B. Bordelon, English Language Arts Teacher


Why are Response Journals great?

  • The writing prompts require your students to give more than just opinions-they have to support their ideas with evidence from the text.
  • Your students will practice many kinds of writing: personal reflection, poetry, dramatic writing, essays, and much more.
  • They're packed with dozens of writing prompts and a cumulative multiple-choice test to boot.

Response Journals are also included in our Complete Teacher's Kits.


All Available Response Journals

Animal Farm
Author: Author: Orwell, George
1984
Author: Orwell, George
The Alchemist
Author: Coehlo, Paulo
Animal Farm
Author: Orwell, George
Anthem
Author: Rand, Ayn
Antigone
Author: Sophocles
As I Lay Dying
Author: Faulkner, William
Bad
Author: Ferris, Jean
The Bean Trees
Author: Kingsolver, Barbara
Beloved
Author: Morrison, Toni
The Best of Poe
Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
Black Boy
Author: Wright, Richard
The Bluest Eye
Author: Morrison, Toni
Brave New World
Author: Huxley, Aldous
Catch-22
Author: Heller, Joseph
A Christmas Carol
Author: Dickens, Charles
Cold Sassy Tree
Author: Ann Burns, Olive
The Contender
Author: Lipsyte, Robert
The Crucible
Author: Miller, Arthur
Deathwatch
Author: White, Robb
Dicey's Song
Author: Voigt, Cynthia
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
Dracula
Author: Stoker, Bram
Dubliners
Author: Joyce, James
Durango Street
Author: Bonham, Frank
Ender's Game
Author: Card, Orson Scott
Ethan Frome
Author: Wharton, Edith
Fahrenheit 451
Author: Bradbury, Ray
Fallen Angels
Author: Myers, Walter Dean
A Farewell to Arms
Author: Hemingway, Ernest
Farewell to Manzanar
Author: Houston & Wakatsuki, James D. & Jeanne
Fences
Author: Wilson, August
Frankenstein
Author: Shelley, Mary
The Giver
Author: Lowry, Lois
The Glass Menagerie
Author: Williams, Tennessee
The Good Earth
Author: Buck, Pearl S.
Great Expectations
Author: Dickens, Charles
The Great Gatsby
Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Grendel
Author: Gardner, John
Hamlet
Author: Shakespeare, William
Hatchet
Author: Paulsen, Gary
The Hiding Place
Author: Ten Boom, Corrie
The Hobbit
Author: Tolkien, J.R.R.
Holes
Author: Sachar, Louis
Hoops
Author: Myers, Walter Dean
Inherit the Wind
Author: Lawrence, Jerome & Lee, Robert E.
Into the Wild
Author: Krakauer, Jon
Invisible Man
Author: Ellison, Ralph
Jane Eyre
Author: Brontë, Charlotte
Johnny Tremain
Author: Forbes, Esther
Julius Caesar
Author: Shakespeare, William
The Jungle
Author: Sinclair, Upton
King Lear
Author: Shakespeare, William
The Kite Runner
Author: Hosseini, Khaled
Life of Pi
Author: Martel, Yann
Lord of the Flies
Author: Golding, William
Lyddie
Author: Paterson, Katherine
Macbeth
Author: Shakespeare, William
Maus I
Author: Spiegelman, Art
Maus II
Author: Spiegelman, Art
Medea
Author: Euripides
The Merchant of Venice
Author: Shakespeare, William
Monster
Author: Myers, Walter Dean
Much Ado About Nothing
Author: Shakespeare, William
My Ántonia
Author: Cather, Willa
Night
Author: Wiesel, Elie
O Pioneers!
Author: Cather, Willa
October Sky
Author: Hickam, Homer
Of Mice and Men
Author: Steinbeck, John
Olver Twist
Author: Dickens, Charles
Othello
Author: Shakespeare, William
Our Town
Author: Wilder, Thornton
Parrot in the Oven
Author: Martinez, Victor
The Pearl
Author: Steinbeck, John
The Pigman
Author: Zindel, Paul
The Poisonwood Bible
Author: Kingsolver, Barbara
Pygmalion
Author: Shaw, George Bernard
Rebecca
Author: du Maurier, Daphne
Romeo and Juliet
Author: Shakespeare, William
Rumble Fish
Author: Hinton, S.E.
The Scarlet Letter
Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Scorpions
Author: Myers, Walter Dean
Shane
Author: Schaefer, Jack
Siddhartha
Author: Hesse, Hermann
The Sign of the Beaver
Author: Speare, Elizabeth George
Silas Marner
Author: Eliot, George
Slam!
Author: Myers, Walter Dean
Speak
Author: Anderson, Laurie Halse
The Stranger
Author: Camus, Albert
The Sun Also Rises
Author: Hemingway, Ernest
The Taming of the Shrew
Author: Shakespeare, William
Tangerine
Author: Bloor, Edward
Transcendentalism: Essential Essays of Emerson and Thoreau
Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo and Henry David Thoreau
Treasure Island
Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
Tuck Everlasting
Author: Babbitt, Natalie
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Author: Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Walk Two Moons
Author: Creech, Sharon
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Author: Speare, Elizabeth George

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