Reading response activities

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FREEBIE: Read and response sheet for your students to use after reading a book or listening to one on tape in your listening center. Great way to check for understanding of the book and also give them a time to reflect. Great to use in your kindergarten or first grade classroom!:

Reading Response Journals are the perfect place for students to respond to novels that are read aloud in the classroom. This Reading Response Journal covers 10 different reading skills and strategies. There is a Divider Tab for each skill or strategy, each with a built in Anchor Chart. This resource also includes Mini Lessons to introduce each skill or strategy. These journals were designed for use with Literature Texts and intended for Upper Elementary classrooms.

I'm starting to really teach and practice comprehension skills. Based on our reading assessments (TRCs) at the beginning of the year I came up with this worksheet to aide in recalling details. I had m

This FREE reading response journal menu is a great tool for independent reading time, supporting comprehension skills, and keeping your students accountable during reading workshop. These reading response journal prompts are perfect for 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, and 5th grade.

Reading response journals and menus are the perfect way to have your students writing about what they read. All you need to get started is a notebook!

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…

We've gathered up all of the FREE reading comprehension response sheets we've created and put them HERE! They can be paired with any book and are useful all year long! Grab these sheets for your Kindergarten, 1st grade, or 2nd grade classroom today!

Looking for language arts project ideas? We've got a simple, creative, and adaptable one here. All you need is a single dice.

Reading Task Cards. Great for guided reading. Includes 44 questions- character, setting, plot, opinion, vocabulary and design.

Guided reading questions for character, plot, making connections and reading strategies.

Expectation: teacher spends 20 blissfully uninterrupted minutes with each reading group while the other students complete their independent reading tasks to fidelity. Reality: teacher spends 18 of the 20 minutes monitoring the activities of students not in the reading group. Result: students don't get quality independent reading time in during the school day, and their comprehension skills suffer. Sound familiar? Trust me, I've been there before. However, things changed once I introduced…

Reading Response Journal Entries

This RACE Wheel and Graphic Organizer are perfect for helping students write meaningful reading responses for literature and informational texts. This free resource is great for upper elementary classrooms.

While I was reading. A question I thought about, what I pictured, I made a connection and a prediction. You can also complete this task in google slides.

Wow, I can’t believe how far along we are in the school year! As our little 2nd graders continue to blossom as readers we have been looking for new ways to help students think more deeply about their reading. I have created comprehension prompting cards along with several different TIC-TAC-TOE response sheets to help students broaden their critical thinking skills during reading. Sample Prompt Cards TIC-TAC-TOE Reading Response (Comes with three different boards) The TIC-TAC-TOE boards can…

How to Improve Reading Comprehension with Reader's Response Journals Right Now: Use Reader's Response Journals. Reader's response journals and notebooks are a place where students will reflect and respond to what they are reading in their text. This can happen in the form of prompted questions about character traits or graphic organizers about the story plot. There are many ways to set up and create reader's response notebooks. READ MORE! #readersresponsejournals #readingcomprehension