Probably the most common type of reading response question, personal responses ask students to relate events in a story to their own experiences. When writing a personal-response prompt, ask questions about general, rather than specific, experiences. For example, if you read a story about a child's parent dying, ask students to write about their general experience of loss, which could include the loss of a friend who moved away, rather than specifically about the death of a loved one.
Moral responses ask students to judge whether the actions of a character in a story are right or wrong, or even a bit of both, and to back up their assertions with facts from the text or their own experiences. Moral questions for these responses should not be black and white, but focus on situations that are more morally ambiguous, to make students think critically about text and their own values --- for example, a question about whether a child who stole medicine for his sick mother was right or wrong.
Some reading responses ask students to respond to the text with their imaginations. This can be anything from imagining a character in a different scenario to coming up a with a story that has a similar scenario to that of a reading passage. For example, after reading the story of a girl struggling to survive during a war, students could write a one-paragraph story about what the girl would do when the war was over.
Some responses ask students to compare or contrast readings with other readings. These help students retain what they learned in other stories by making them recall it and get them to make thematic connections between readings. For example, if you read a story about a girl struggling to be accepted on a boys Little League team, you could ask students to write about other characters they have read about who showed courage in the face of adversity.