Reader's Journal #4

                                                                                                                                                  8/22/11
                                        Reader's Journal #4

    Dear Mrs. Zrihen,

     I have been reading the book name Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II by Jack Canfield. The reason I picked this book because it was really a book for teens. I'm not really a teen I am really a pre-teen but I can still understand what the book says. Now this book is about how being a teenager is like. It has diffrent sections of the book and each section is a teenager's life and actually the stories try to tell a lesson of how they failed and how you can succeed and solve that problem.

   The three strategies I used before reading the book was that I skimmed and scanned for text features and some I found was bold prints, headings, illustrations, italics, and captions. I also ask myself questions about the book like what do I know about the book and are there pictures, titles or maps. I also predicted what might have happened in the story by looking at the cover and the title.The three strategies I've done during reading was skip when I see an unfamiliar word, keep reading, and go back to that unfamiliar word and figure what that word mean. I also stop reading and thought what I read so far in the story.And I also made inferences and thought about what I read about  and try to learn from it.The last three strategies I done were after reading the story and my first was I wrote down what I read about what I learned in the story. I actually discussed with my cousin about the book and we had a good discussion and we agreed on trying to learn from this book.And I also drew conclusion and think about what predictions I made before and during reading.

  The genre of this story is a memoir. Memoir is a kind of genre where it is a memory that you can learn a lesson from.The topic of this book is teenagers.The main idea of this book is that this book gives examples of problems and how can you solve them to be a good teenager.The supporting details for this story is diffrent sections of titles you can learn from.And diffrent steps of how being a good teen.The essential message of this book is.The essential message is " to be a good teenager you need a guide to help you through because it's hard for some. The text features I found were captions, italics, illustrations,headings, and subtitles.

 In closing, I will like to say that this book was a really great book and taught me stuff I didn't about being a teenager. I will rate this book a ten out of ten. Again I enjoyed this book and I wish I can read more books like this.

                                                                                                                    Your Student
                                                                                                              Frederick Thelismon