Happy Friday!
In the second half of the year, my district moves away from literacy stations and more towards Reader's Response, while the teacher does Guided Reading. In the past, my students have struggled to come up with something to write about or to vary responses from day to day. I've created this chart to help the them get started.
Since my kids sit all around the room during independent reading I made a smaller chart for them to use anywhere in the classroom. You can pick your freebie by clicking here.
front view
back view
I also wanted to be sure the students weren't picking the same type of response each time so I made another sheet to go with it. They must add a tally on each one before they are allowed to repeat a response. Each time they fill a tally in all of the columns, they get a choice of what type of response they do.
My afternoon class was able to start choosing from the list today and I was excited to see that they were understanding what to do and completing it. Here is a sample of one of my student's work. I gave each student a copy of the character trait list that you can download for free here from Workshop Classroom. This sheet helped a lot when teaching different character traits during our study about Rosa Parks. We also talked about how they have to show evidence from the text on why the character encompasses that trait.
Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your super bowl weekend!
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