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by Jennifer Saldo
by Jennifer Saldo
click on the link above to explore digital tools that support students responding to reading
Responding to Reading
Responding to Reading
* Different Ways to engage students in response to literature, books, and text.
* Fostering collaboration among students, teachers, and with text.
* Delivering content in meaningful, engaging, and various ways.
* Tools and strategies to differentiate instruction.
Click on the link below to learn specific strategies for students when responding to reading during the before reading phase, during reading phase, and the after reading phase.
Literacy Strategies that Encompasses Active Engagement
Middle School Mix Up
Middle School Mix Up
by Natosha Newton
"Our reflections are the making of deeper meaning and richer understandings. Our reflections are our dreams, our ideas, our questions, our initiatives, our visions - our journeys of lifelong learning and teaching." -Schwartz & Bone 1995
Engaging Middle School Readers
Engaging Middle School Readers
Readers responding to literature allows the reader to construct meaning to what they have read. In allowing students to respond to what they read, they are making critical understandings of how they relate to the text as well as attach meaning to what has been read. There are a variety of ways that students can be encouraged to respond to text being read in class. Here are three activities that engage readers in reflecting on what they have read by creating a response.
DoubleEntry.pdfDouble Entry Journal
Double Entry Journal
by Natosha Newton
This strategy asks the reader to pull out a specific quote or event to record on one column and analyze on the other. This handout can be duplicated for students to use.
Sketch to Stretch
Sketch to Stretch
by Natosha Newton
This strategy encourages students to stop while they are reading to create a visual of what they just read. This strategy is demonstrated in the short video.
Graffiti Boards
Graffiti Boards
by Natosha Newton
This strategy allows students to reflect on what they are reading with peers. The picture provided shares student responses to a common class novel being studied.
High School Strategies
High School Strategies
by Wendy O'Sullivan
Socratic Seminar
Socratic Seminar
Click on the link below to learn how to implement this engaging response to reading strategy in your classroom!
Group One Pager
Group One Pager
Click on the link below to learn more about this exciting strategy to help your students respond to reading in fun and creative ways!
The Jigsaw Method
The Jigsaw Method
The Jigsaw Method is a tried and true, engaging activity for your students. Click on the video above to watch this response to reading strategy in action and learn how you can incorporate it in your classroom!
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