Reading response activities

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

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

Do you use reading response journals during independent reading time? I made a free reading response journal prompts menu for you to use.

Help your students engage with fiction texts with reading response activities. These reading response activities help students make meaning, build personal connections, and support their opinions. With 30 different reading response activities to choose from in printable and digital formats, this resource is perfect for independent reading accountability or literature circles. Students will respond to prompts about characters, plot, setting, theme, and other elements of fiction.

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!

Use reading response journals in your classroom as a casual and flexible way for students to respond to text, share opinions, and write their thoughts.

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Some of you may know that I have the mother of all multi-level classes this year: 6th-12th grade, 1st-7th year Spanish. I asked parents and students for grace during the first few weeks as I figured out how to meet everyone’s needs, and they did. We are now finishing up week four, and I have a…

Getting students to write about reading was a struggle for a LONG TIME! I tried all sorts of approaches, all types of reading response journals and notebooks, and yet it still felt so forced. This year, things have changed! It all started with the understanding that students need to be invested in order to engage. […]

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…