Below is a sample of what an excerpt from a reading journal page might look like:

The Hungry Ocean by Linda Greenlaw

Passage	Response
“the Hannah Boden chafed”	Who is the boat named after?
“able to incorporate the jingling into my dream”	I have done that and slept through my alarm
“unloading over 56,000 pounds” of swordfish	Holy Cow! No wonder the oceans are almost empty!
“the better the bait, the better the catch. Small swordfish and sharks are not nearly so finicky”	Bigger fish are pickier eaters? Seems like they would eat anything and that’s why they’re bigger.