In the upcoming weeks students will be working on responding to reading. This is something they could practice at home after their 30 minutes of reading each night.In a response to reading students read (or listen) to text and write any sub-sequential thoughts down. This helps with comprehension, memory, prediction, writing fluency, and higher levels thinking skills.
Items to consider in a response to reading:
- Likes
- Dislikes
- Questions about what is happening
- Questions about characters
- Questions about vocabulary
- Connections - text to text
- Connections - text to self
- Connections - text to world
- Emotions
- Predictions
- What if's
- Seed ideas for writing