Reading Responses for Poetry with Sentence Starters

Description

This product is designed to support readers in responding to poetry. It includes 33 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.

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 ELA assessment, as well as other states.

Included in this resource:

• Questioning
• Types of Questioning
• Visualizing
• A Stanza at a Time (Visualizing; 2 versions)
• Personal Connections
• Text-to-Text Connections
• Text-to-World Connections
• Text-to-Media Connections
• Reasonable Predictions (2 versions)
• Figurative Language Hunt
• Sensory Details
• Sensory Language
• Imagery Hunt
• Imagery
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Hyperbole
• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia
• Speaking Figuratively
• Structure It
• End rhyme & Internal Rhyme
• Repetition
• Rhythm
• Which one is it? (Narrative or lyrical)
• What’s it all About? (Identifying topic)
• Who’s Speaking (identifying the speaker)
• Details Lead to Theme
• Theme by Stanza
• Reactions to Texts
• Meaningful Lines

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!

Please download for use in your classroom and encourage your friends to download the document themselves. Thank you!