Lesson 4: Reflect on Your Reading - Part A
Completion requirements
Unit 4
How Do Games Influence People?
Lesson 4
Reader's Notebook
Reflect on Your Reading

Click each coloured row for information about the activity.
So far in this unit, you have:
- read opinion selections about internet games and team sports using three main reading strategies (use what you know, visualize, and synthesize)
- worked with root words, prefixes, and suffixes
- learned that opinions should be supported by facts or logical reasons
Take out or open your Have Your Say! Organizer that you completed in the last lesson. Read it over. Explain the opinion you read about to an adult you know (a parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, older friend or sibling or contact your teacher).
- Examine the speech bubble on page 16 of Literacy in Action 5B.
- Complete the During Reading question on the Reader’s Notebook: Reflect on Your Reading worksheet.
Download PDF
- Download the document Reader's Notebook: Reflect on Your Reading.
- IMPORTANT NOTE: When the download screen opens:
- Click the "Open with" button.
- Select "Adobe Reader".
- Click "OK".
- You will then be able to view the document Reader's Notebook: Reflect on Your Reading.
You have learned that different people can have different points of view about the same topic. Think about the selection you read, and the opinions of the author.
If you read about Internet games, try to imagine what the selection would have been like if it was written by an advertiser.
Answer Questions 1 to 6 in the Internet Games section on the Reader’s Notebook: Reflect on Your Reading page.
Answer Questions 1 to 6 in the Internet Games section on the Reader’s Notebook: Reflect on Your Reading page.
If you read about team sports, try to imagine what the selection would have been like if it was written by someone who had never played sports.
Answer Questions 1 to 5 in the Internet Games section on the Reader’s Notebook: Reflect on Your Reading page.
Answer Questions 1 to 5 in the Internet Games section on the Reader’s Notebook: Reflect on Your Reading page.
The selections you have read so far have been opinions about games. Answer Questions 1 to 6 in the After Reading section on the Reader’s Notebook: Reflect on Your Reading worksheet.
Save
How to save a file:
- Scan the document to your computer.
- Have the file open and select Save As from the File menu.
- Name your Reflect on Your Reading file in this format: jsmith_reflectonreading and save the file to your Documents folder.
Compare your responses to those in the Key by clicking here.