Reading response

Do you use reading response journals during independent reading time? I made a free reading response journal prompts menu for you to use.

In upper grade classrooms, students spend a great deal of time responding to the texts they read. Over the years I have found that no matter what grade level I teach, students have a difficult time writing thorough and meaningful reading responses. At the start of every year my students need quite a bit of guidance when writing their responses. One of the best ways that I have found to teach students to write meaningful responses is by providing them with sentence frames. I like to encourage…

This reading response worksheet is ideal for practicing story elements, reading strategies, comprehension, text connection, author study, vocabulary work and so much more!

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Use these reading response questions with ANY fiction book! The prompts are perfect for class novels, short stories, book clubs, literature circles, and more! Download the FREE printable PDF today! Use the standards-based questions to assess comprehension and promote critical thinking for students in 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. Focus on all the major story elements. Download the printable PDF today! #freebie #readingstrategy #comprehension #fourthgrade #fifithgrade via @literacyinfocus

Not sure where to start when it comes to creating a Reading Response Journal? This post shares my favorite tool to use!

Reading Response activities will likely form a major part of your reading programme, whether you are running guided reading groups, a daily 5 system,

This week I finally finished “Reading Portfolios” for my students to use this year for their independent and in-class reading. I wanted students to have a place where they could record and track their independent reading habits, take notes on reading strategies and skills, and respond to their in-class and independent reading. I previously shared…

This year, I revised the materials in my reader's notebooks. I'm using a combo of a binder and a notebook for reading workshop this year, and I'm not 100% happy with it. I thought I would share some of what I've been doing. Maybe you can help me tweak. Let me first tell you how I've been working it. In their binder, they have a section for anchor charts and handouts. There's an index where they write the title of the paper so they can see at a glance what they have. It' sort of like a mini…

Getting students to write about reading was a struggle for a LONG TIME! I tried all sorts of approaches, all types of reading response journals and notebooks, and yet it still felt so forced. This year, things have changed!