Reading response activities

Okay teacher friend. It’s finally here. And I’m so excited! I’ve had this resource collecting dust on my computer for years now. I’ve been using this strategy in my classroom for the last few years, but haven’t had the energy or time (teacher life + mom life is exhausting, am I right?) to put it all together so that it’s ready to go for busy teachers like you! Well, it’s finally finished and I finally get to unveil it to you! Did you know I have a FREE downloadable reading response menu…

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

Do you want to provide your students with more choices so they can take ownership of their learning? If so, you’ll love this free fiction choice board! This printable and digital reading response menu is a perfect addition to a class novel, independent reading time, or a small group reading activity. You can use it in your Google Classroom for distance learning too! Your 4th, 5th, 6th, and middle school students will have fun with this reading comprehension activity! Grab this freebie today!

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…

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

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…

Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies: Asking Questions & QAR Strategy - Raise the Bar Reading

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!