Reading Responses for Fiction

$4.00

This product is designed to support readers in responding to fictional text. It includes almost 40 pages of strategies with a graphic organizer to record their evidence and thinking and sentence starters to respond to the text using their organizer. It also includes a couple pages of teacher tips.

PDF | 40 pages

Description

These structured paragraphs are the perfect way to respond to reading with thinking and text evidence, and build up to the Short Constructed Response questions on the Texas ELAR assessment, as well as other states.

Included in this resource:

Questioning
Types of Questioning
Visualizing
Personal Connections
Text-to-Text Connections
Text-to-World Connections
Text-to-Media Connections
Reasonable Predictions
Evaluating Predictions
Visual Summary
Breaking it Down to Summarize
Setting: Place
Setting: Time
Setting: Tone
Character Actions
Character Emotions
Character Traits
Character Relationships
Character Roles
Character Changes
Types of Conflicts
Events
Related Events
Exposition
Moment of Conflict
Rising Action
Climax
Resolution
Events Lead to Theme
Character Change is the Message
Conflict Resolution
Reactions to Text
Opinions About Text

Great for upper grade elementary classrooms, grades 3-6. Students who are encouraged to think about their reading will become real readers rather than word-callers!