Getting the Most Out of Reading Response Tasks

10 Engaging Reading Response Ideas for Upper Elementary

I LOVE giving students a set of question stems/starters or thinking stems as an option for responding to reading…Question stems/starters are a great way to get ...

Must-Read Novels and Engaging Reading Response Activities for ...

I love using book projects for assessment instead of traditional tests or essays because novel projects encourage students to think deeper and combine important ...

Getting the Most Out of Reading Response Tasks

Reading response tasks take on purpose when students can see a connection to what you've been working on together in your reading mini-lessons.

3 Ways to Transform Reading Response Activities - ASCD

You might encourage students to think about two or three memorable moments from a book they read independently or as a class to create a series ...

The Best Ideas for 5-Minute Reading Responses - Scholastic

Help students get more out of the books they read with this big collection of tiered, reading-response activities on the topics you need to ...

HUGE LIST OF ENGAGING READING RESPONSE ACTIVITIES ...

A written report is only one way to show comprehension. Have your student/child pick from this list of engaging activities for reading grouped by learning style ...

The Importance of READER RESPONSE - LITERACY WITH LESLEY

Most importantly, Reader Response shows us how a student has read and thought about text, and response allows us to help our students read ...

10 Creative Reading Response Activity Ideas to Ignite Classroom ...

To begin, students select a theme from their reading. Using the letters that spell out the theme word, have them create an acrostic poem that ...

Offering Choice in your Reading Response Activities

Providing engaging texts · Offer a variety of follow-up activities · Build independence and offer choice · Differentiate, not separate ...

Reading Response Activities for Upper Elementary

Reading Response Activities Ideas · 1. Picture This! A Visualization Activity · 2. Character Traits Activity · 3. Comparing & Contrasting Two ...

Authentic Reading Response Activities - Jan's File Cabinet

Providing opportunities for authentic reading response can help us break out of this rut and engage our intermediate and middle-level learners!

Reading Response 4-ish Ways - Ethical ELA

Homework: Expect two or more additional responses at home for practice. Give feedback on one a week in class and adjust the modeling ...

Reading Round-Up: Make Reading Response a Daily Activity

Every teacher knows that one of the best ways to improve students' reading skills is to make reading response a daily activity.

Creative Reading Response Activities for any Novel - Nouvelle ELA

Reading response activities ask students to refer to the text as they make an observation, argument, or prediction. These are useful for ...

Creating Authentic Reader Response Activities | Donalyn Miller

Talking with students, most believe that teachers assign reading response activities to confirm that kids are actually reading. Completing the ...

9 Post-Reading Activities to Help Students Get the Most Out of a Text

Give students the chance to step into the teacher's role. Have students come up with comprehension questions—short-answer or true/false—to test ...

5 Reading Response Activities to Invite Higher Thinking - MiddleWeb

Doing Reading Responses (RRs) is one of the most effective techniques I know to get kids to formulate new ideas about a fiction or non-fiction text.

103 Things to Do Before, During, or After Reading | Reading Rockets

Pair up and trade-off reading through some text. Any time you have something to say about some aspect of the story, interrupt the reader and discuss, question, ...

Students Benefit from Reading Response Journals - ELA Matters

Getting Started with Response Journals ... To begin, I divided response questions into fiction and nonfiction. Then I created task cards and Tic ...

Reading Response Activities - Simply Creative Teaching

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!