You've finished a book or reading selection-- great! Now it's time to respond to literature. You may need your response notebook and a pencil to complete the activities on this page.
What is a response to literature?
A response to literature is simply communicating what you think and understand about what you have read. The activity while you are reading and after you finish reading.
Room 305 Adventurers:
- Respond while they read independently. Response activities may include: completing a graphic organizer, building a dictionary of new words , holding a peer discussion or using a thinkmark/Post-it to write personal thoughts.
- Respond after they read independently. Response activities may include: completing a graphic organizer such as a story map or character web, a book project (diorama, book report, etc.), a peer discussion, a book talk, a book review or a reading response journal entry.
Most of the activities mentioned above are usually completed while seated at a desk, but at Reading is Funtastic!, you can do them online.
Directions: Choose one activity for the literature you have read. Do not duplicate an activity in a month--complete a different activity for each book read in a month. Read all of the directions before you click on a link.
You receive graphic organizers to complete throughout the year. This activity will allow you the chance to choose your own organizer to complete. You must know the genre (it may be more than one type) of the literature before you selct a graphic organizer.
- Go to the Education Place website.
- Select a graphic organizer. The organizer should relate to your book. For example, if you are reading non-fiction, a comparison/contrast or t-chart may be useful. A story may would not relate to your nonfiction text.
- Once you click on a graphic organizer, you will go to another program, Adobe Reader, to view the organizer.
- Print the organizer.
- Complete the organizer and attach it to the appropriate page in your response notebook.
- Click here to select a graphic organizer: graphic organizers.
Choice #2 Sort of Online Literature Club Discussion
This activity allows you to "hold a conversation" or conduct a literature club discussion online using email. For this activity you will need to know your Gaggle.net username and password.
- Log on to your Gaggle.net email account.
- Click the "write mail" button to compose a message.
- Generate a list of 3-5 personal thoughts or questions you have about the book.
- In the subject box type: "My Thoughts on Title of the Literature." (If the title is too long, use an appreviated version.) Type your personal thought in the message box. In your message, make sure you ask your peer(s) to reply to comments about your thoughts. When your peer replies, the email message will read "Re: My Thoughts on Title of the Literature."
- Send your thoughts to your reading partner or literature club.
- For one week, continue to sent messages back and forth. Respond to each other as many times as you want within the one-week period.
- Send the last email message(s) to me. Your conversation about the book will be posted to the site within one week.
Choice #3 Speak Your Mind Book Review
Do you ever feel like you want everyone to know how you feel about a book? Speak Your Mind by creating a book review. You may want to brainstorm your thoughts on paper before you actually begin the activity.
- Go to Write a Book Review with Rodman Philbrick to learn how to write a book review.
- Open a MS Word document.
- Write a review in MS Word. You may cut and paste the list below as a guide for writing your review.
- author of the book and a statement about the author's style
- a brief summary of the book (do not give the ending)
- use one new word from the book in the review
- briefly describe the "best part of the book"
- explain why someone should or should not read the book
- Save the file as "title of the book+your first name."
- Post your review to Book Central.
- Enter the information in the appropriate boxes. You do not have to re-type your review, cut and paste the text from MS Word into the "type your review here:" box.
Choice #4 Maybe New Article Review
