Fiction Reading Responses – Graphic Organizers and Sentence Starters

Description

Help students respond thoughtfully to fiction. These response sheets include strategies, graphic organizers, and sentence starters for fiction text structure and features.

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.

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 List
• Types of Questioning
• Visualizing Organizer
• 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 Change
• 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 3-5. 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!