Reading response journals

In upper grade classrooms, students spend a great deal of time responding to the texts they read. Over the years I have found that no matter what grade level I teach, students have a difficult time writing thorough and meaningful reading responses. At the start of every year my students need quite a bit of guidance when writing their responses. One of the best ways that I have found to teach students to write meaningful responses is by providing them with sentence frames. I like to encourage…

Read for tips on setting up and using response notebooks. They are great tools for reading response, word work, writing, data, and more!

Okay teacher friend. It’s finally here. And I’m so excited! I’ve had this resource collecting dust on my computer for years now. I’ve been using this strategy in my classroom for the last few years, but haven’t had the energy or time (teacher life + mom life is exhausting, am I right?) to put it all together so that it’s ready to go for busy teachers like you! Well, it’s finally finished and I finally get to unveil it to you! Did you know I have a FREE downloadable reading response menu…

Reader's Notebooks and reading response journals are a great way to support reading development in fourth, fifth, and sixth grades. Learn how to use Reader's Notebooks to engage your students with books daily and develop reading comprehension skills with any genre of text. Learn more about the key parts of a Reader's Notebook, and grab a free week of reading response prompts for your 4th-grade, 5th-grade, or 6th-grade reading classroom. #reading #readingteacher #elaclassroom

This FREE reading response journal menu is a great tool for independent reading time, supporting comprehension skills, and keeping your students accountable during reading workshop. These reading response journal prompts are perfect for 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, and 5th grade.

Hi! This is Kelly, from Teaching Fourth. Journals are such an effective way to engage students in thinking and responding to reading for both literature and informative texts. They help students think about and reflect on lessons and on their reading. Even before Pinterests and blogs, I used journals as part of my instruction. Although those journals were not picture worthy, they were still great tools to use in my classroom. I have to admit, I love a well-organized journal with…

These FREE Reading Response Notebooks have been a GAME CHANGER in my classroom. In this post, I spell out how we created these individualized journal covers, how we used these reading response journals to get to know each other as readers, as well as how to get students invested and engaged in writing about reading! These journals are the PERFECT idea for any literacy curriculum, and best of all? They're FREE! Click to grab your free template now! For 1st grade, 2nd grade and 3rd grade.

How to Improve Reading Comprehension with Reader's Response Journals Right Now: Use Reader's Response Journals. Reader's response journals and notebooks are a place where students will reflect and respond to what they are reading in their text. This can happen in the form of prompted questions about character traits or graphic organizers about the story plot. There are many ways to set up and create reader's response notebooks. READ MORE! #readersresponsejournals #readingcomprehension

Grab a cheap notebook and get kids reading and responding with these free reading response journal questions. Great for struggling readers! *The free download link can be found towards the end of this post. Just look for and click on the teal, oval button. *This post contains affiliate links. Simple Reading Response Journal Questions ... Read More about Reading Response Journal Questions {FREE!}

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Reading Response Journals are the perfect place for students to respond to novels that are read aloud in the classroom. This Reading Response Journal covers 10 different reading skills and strategies. There is a Divider Tab for each skill or strategy, each with a built in Anchor Chart. This resource also includes Mini Lessons to introduce each skill or strategy. These journals were designed for use with Literature Texts and intended for Upper Elementary classrooms.

FREE ideas for how a 2nd grade teacher uses Reading Response Journals. Great student samples, too!

This year, I revised the materials in my reader's notebooks. I'm using a combo of a binder and a notebook for reading workshop this year, and I'm not 100% happy with it. I thought I would share some of what I've been doing. Maybe you can help me tweak. Let me first tell you how I've been working it. In their binder, they have a section for anchor charts and handouts. There's an index where they write the title of the paper so they can see at a glance what they have. It' sort of like a mini…

This Literature Log or Reading Response Journal for Chapter Books is designed to be used to help guide students through reading and understanding chapter books.

Looking a list of alternatives to reading logs? Here is a list of 10 fun and creative activities for your reading classroom instead of the old, boring reading log. Teacher tested...student approved!

Create●Teach●Share: Reading Portfolios- Part 3: Reading Responses {+ freebie}

Need an easy way for students to respond to their reading - check out these two ideas for giving your students a variety of options of reading responses.

When I first began teaching, Nancie Atwell’s In The Middle was my go to PD book for all things to do with reading and writing workshop. I modeled so many of my teaching practices on what I learned…

Double Entry Reading Response Journal