Independent Reading: Formats for Responding to Text

Presented by:Robyn Marsden-Mentor TeacherCarroll County Public Schools

rcmarsd@k12.carr.org

AgendaWhat Why How

Warm Up (10 minutes) To Focus Participant Learning

Small Group

Discussion: Why have do we have students respond to text?

To determine purpose Partner Discussion, Power Point

Demonstration of Response formats

To meet the needs of all learners

Power PointPhoto Story

Questions (10 minutes) To Address Concerns

Closure (5 minutes) To provide feedback for presenters

Plus/Delta

Why do we have students respond to text?

What does the VSC Say?

General Reading Comprehension: Students will discuss reactions to and

ideas/information gained from reading experiences with adults and peers in both formal and informal situations

Formats

• Verbal Responses• Worksheets/Workbook Pages• Journals• Literary Circles• Projects• Technology

Verbal Responses

• Verbal responses allow for an immediate evaluation of a student’s understanding of the text.

• Teachers can evaluate these responses during guided reading groups or individual reading conferences.

• In both cases it is important to phrase questions so that students use higher level thinking skills to arrive at their answers.

• Bloom’s Taxonomy is a great resource for developing one’s ability to ask higher level questions.

Personal Response This story reminds me of….. I f I were the main character, I would…. The character… reminds me of… because… When I was in a similar situation, I … The setting of the story is the same/ diff erent f rom where I live because… I would have solved this problem by…

Global Understanding I f you were to retell a f riend about the story what would you say?... (Remember: Beginning, Middle & End) The author’s message was… The characters in this story were… This story took place in… The problem in the story was… The problem was solved by… I have learned…

Critical Stance The author made the story seem real by… I could tell how the characters were feeling because the author … The story could be improved by… The illustrations show the mood or f eeling of the story by… _______ is a good title for this story because…

Developing I nterpretation

The ____ changed when… I think that _____ happened because… I was able to predict what was going to happen because… Some of the character traits of the main character are… Tell how the main character is like someone you know.

Worksheets/Workbook Pages• Worksheets and

workbook pages are pre-made by the writer of a specific textbook

• Tailored Specifically to the Stories in an Anthology

• Require Little Planning to Use

Journals• Reading response journals are a place where students respond to literature

by recording their thoughts, feelings, reactions, and questions about the book they are reading.

• The content of student response journals can help you assess and develop their reading abilities and behaviors. Patterns of journal responses also help the teacher determine what guidance in instruction they need next.

• When writing a reading response journal the student should consider the following as a response:

– A) Retell or summarize the story – B) Connect own experiences in the story– C) State opinion and provides support– D) Interpret the author's meaning– E) Makes some predictions or hypotheses– F) Asks question– G) Makes some personal reflection

Examples:Store Bought:

Self Made• Composition Book• Spiral Notebook• Binder • Collection of Pages Bound with Book Binder

Resources for

Using Spiral Notebook

or

Composition Book

Sentence leads for telling about Connections to what your read:

□ The character…reminds me of… because…

□ The situation reminds me

of…(think of something that happened in your life)

□ …reminds me of (myself, my

friend, a family member) because…

□ This (character, setting, time)

reminds me of…because…

□ This book reminds me of…(another book you have read) because…

□ I am alike or diff erent from

(character) because…

□ The setting of this story reminds me of…because…

□ The problem in this story is

similar to the problem in …(another story title) because…

□ The character…reminds me of

the character…

Sentence leads for telling your Feelings about what you read: □ I like/dislike this book/chapter

because… □ The character I (like best,

admire, dislike the most) is… because…

□ When I read this book, I felt…

because…

□ I admire (character) because…

□ I didn’t understand the part of the story when…

□ The most exciting part of this

book/chapter was when…

□ My favorite part of this book was…

□ I think the author wrote this

book to…

□ I learned…

□ What I want to remember about this book is…

□ I ’d like to read another book

by this author because…

□ This book helped me to…

□ My feelings about…changed when…

□ This book makes me want to…

Personal Response This story reminds me of….. I f I were the main character, I would…. The character… reminds me of… because… When I was in a similar situation, I … The setting of the story is the same/ diff erent f rom where I live because… I would have solved this problem by…

Global Understanding I f you were to retell a f riend about the story what would you say?... (Remember: Beginning, Middle & End) The author’s message was… The characters in this story were… This story took place in… The problem in the story was… The problem was solved by… I have learned…

Critical Stance The author made the story seem real by… I could tell how the characters were feeling because the author … The story could be improved by… The illustrations show the mood or f eeling of the story by… _______ is a good title for this story because…

Developing I nterpretation

The ____ changed when… I think that _____ happened because… I was able to predict what was going to happen because… Some of the character traits of the main character are… Tell how the main character is like someone you know.

Resources for Using A Binder or

A Collection of Pages Bound with a Book Binder

Independent Reading Response Book Title: ______________________ Author: _____________________________

Chapter/ Pages Read: _______________ Write about what happened: What kind of connections can you

make with this book or chapter? How do you feel about this book? Teacher Response

In the beginning On (date) First To begin with It began on

Not long after Second Next Then The second thing And then

Next Third…Fourth… Then Now As And then

After Finally Last At the end And the last thing In conclusion

Before Reading: Think about what you read yesterday. Write a sentence that briefly summarizes what happened. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ Think about what has happened in the story so f ar…based on what you’ve read, make a prediction about what you think will happen next. J ustif y your prediction. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________ _____________________________________________________________ During Reading:

As you read, use sticky notes to record questions you have. Pick one of your questions and answer it in the space below: My Question: _________________________________________________________ ____ _______________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ Answer:____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________ *if you can’t answer the question, predict what you think the answer is and we will discuss the question in reading group New Words: Use the box below to record words that are unfamiliar to you. Pick one word. Look it up in the dictionary and complete the attached vocabulary activity.

Name: ____________________________ Date:_____________________ Before Reading:

Preview the article. Based on your preview of the article, predict what you think it will be about. Remember to justify your prediction.

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As you preview the article, think about the non-fiction text f eatures we’ve been talking about. What text features do you notice?

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Af ter preview the article and making a prediction, complete K and W section of the attached KWL chart.

During Reading:

As you read, use sticky notes to record questions you have. Pick one of your questions and write it in the space below:

My Question: ________ ________________________ _________________ _______ ______________________________________________________ _______ ______________________________________________________

New Words: Use the box below to record words that are unfamiliar to you. Pick one word. Look it up in the dictionary and complete the attached vocabulary activity.

What non-fiction text f eatures did you fi nd in the article? List them below.

1. __________ 2. ______ ____ 3._________ 4. _______ __ 5. __ _____ __

Literary Circles

• In Literary Circles or Book Clubs, kids choose their own books and talk about them in groups.

• Students take turns asking and responding to questions from their peers.

• Using a set of generic, predetermined questions, teachers can guide their students thinking.

• Students may share questions they have about what they’ve read or ask for clarification of unfamiliar words.

Great Books for Getting Started with Literature Circles

• Making Literature Circles Come Alive Amy Hamra - A Unique Approach to Literature Circles

• Moving Forward with Literature Circles Jeni Pollack Day - Inspiring book, easy to read, great for upper elementary 

• Mini-Lessons for Literature Circles Jeni Pollack Day , Nancy Steineke- Outstanding resource, especially for middle and high school teachers

• Literature Circles: Voice and Choice in Book Clubs Harvey Daniels - An updated version of the Harvey Daniels classic

• Getting Started with Literature Circles - Excellent resource for all teachers - great section for K-2 teachers

Resources for

Literary Circles

What Was I Thinking? Name: _________________________________ Date:___________________________________ Title: __________________________________ Chapter (s): _____________________________ What Struck you as an important idea? Or..A controversial idea? ________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ What question(s) popped into your mind as you read? __________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ What were your feelings as you read today? Explain… _______________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Interesting Vocabulary I found while reading. (include word, page number and clues that helped you understand the meaning) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Visualize: Sketch what you saw in your mind as you read. (remember to include a page number and caption that tells about your picture)

What Was I Thinking? Name: _________________________________ Date:___________________________________ Title: __________________________________ Chapter(s): ______________________________ What Struck you as an important idea? Or..A controversial idea? ________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ What question(s) popped into your mind as you read? __________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ What were your feelings as you read today? Explain… _______________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Interesting Vocabulary I found while reading. (include word, page number and clues that helped you understand the meaning) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Visualize: Sketch what you saw in your mind as you read. (remember to include a page number and caption that tells about your picture)

Title: ____________________________________ ___________ What Was Your Favorite Part of the Story?

Story Detective

(name)

My f avorite part of the story was _____________

because ____________ ______ Page number

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I nteresting Words We Found While Re-Reading Title: ____________________________________

Story Detective (name)

I nteresting Word

Page Number

I think this word is interesting because:

Title: ____________________________________ ___________ Who Was Your Favorite Character in the Story?

Story Detective

(name)

My favorite character in the story was ____ ________________________________

because __________________ Page number

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Projects

• Diorama• Flip Book• Posters Advertising Their Book• Create an Award for Your Book• Timeline• Mobile• Write a Letter to One of the Characters• Create a Comic Strip or Cartoon

Technology

• Research a question related to the text• Windows to the World:Online Journaling

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/• Photo Story to Retell Events:

http://joecarr.wikispaces.com/photostory

Using Photo Story to Respond to

Text• Teacher Creates a Folder with Pictures Related to

the Text• Students Open Photo Story and Choose Begin a

New Story • Following the prompts, students pick photo’s they

feel will best help them retell the story• After pictures are added, students add captions to

retell events• When captions are complete, students continue

to follow prompts to finish their story and turn it into a short movie

Additional Resources

• Power Point and Handouts from this session: http://readerstoolbox.wikispaces.com/Resources

• Listing of My Favorite Internet Sites: http://del.icio.us/, I am, rcmarsd

Student Reading Comprehension Strategies: http://www.readinglady.com/mosaic/tools/Student%20Reading%20Comprehension%20Strategies%20explanation%20from%20Leslie.pdf Rubric for Grades 2/3 Reading Strategies: http://www.u46teachers.org/mosaic/tools/Strategy%20Rubrics.doc Comprehension Strategies Poster: http://liberty.k12.mo.us/jh/staffresources/documents/Comp%20%20Strategies%20with%20questions.pdf Strategy Use Tracking Sheet: http://www.readinglady.com/mosaic/tools/Strategy%20Use%20Tracking%20Sheet.pdf Picture Book List for Modeling Strategies: http://www.readinglady.com/mosaic/tools/PictureBookListforModelingStrategyInstructionfromKerry.pdf Reading Strategies Defined: http://www.hudsonville.k12.mi.us/mypage/smorren/readingstrategies.html Reading Strategy Bookmark: http://www.cccoe.net/tdf/Beltramo/rs/StrategiesBookmark.pdf Comprehension Strategies with Posters and Examples of Anchor Charts: http://www.ecboe.org/dena/Reading%20Strategies.html A Power Point Explaining How to Teach Reading Strategies: https://www.seattleschools.org/area/literacy/reading-writing-tips/25ReadingStrategies.pps Santa Maria Bonita School District Posters and Charts for Reading and Comprehension: http://www.smbsd.org/page.cfm?p=904 Resources from Our Presentations: http://readerstoolbox.wikispaces.com Strategy Posters: http://readinglady.com/ Worksheets: http://www.starfall.com/n/N-info/educators.htm?n=download

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