Audio Book Comments

When you have listened to a story for 10 minutes, comment about what you have heard.

You do not have to listen to a whole story. If you have only read some of the story, your comment could start with these words:

I am enjoying the story so far and want to find out…
The words are quite difficult and this makes me …
I am confused about… because…
I think…is going to happen.

If you have finished your story what can you do to follow up ?
You could write a comment which starts with one of these lines…

The best part of the story was…
I might change the end of the story so that…
If I could be a character I would be…because…
This book reminds me of…because…
I loved this book because…
I would recommend this book to…because they like books which…
I did not like this book because…Next time I would try to choose a book which is…
Although I liked …in this book, I would rather …happened.
The main theme of this book is…

How to comment

In class, during guided reading, some children read with the teacher, while the rest of the class works independently on something else.

Some children listen to audiobooks and then comment on these in their reading records or on the blog.

Some comments are better than others.

Here are a few ideas to help you write even better ideas: