Ideas for bringing the fun into your elementary classroom without losing the rigor!

Maximize your reader's workshop with our versatile Reading Response Slips for Nonfiction, designed to enhance students' understanding of main ideas, supporting details, and character analysis. This essential resource is perfect for teachers seeking a 'grab and go' tool to make the most out of reading instruction.

 I can find the main idea. RI.5.2  I can find how the main idea is supported by details. RI.5.2  I can summarize what I have read. RI.5.2 2. Determine two or more main ideas of a text...

Do you use reading response journals during independent reading time? I made a free reading response journal prompts menu for you to use.

Make it easy for all students to do awesome book reports with this motivating fill-in poster template! The engaging prompts guide kids to respond meaningfully about plot, characters, setting, main idea, problem/solution, personal connections, and more. Includes a complete teaching guide. Great for reluctant writers!

Reading Response activities will likely form a major part of your reading programme, whether you are running guided reading groups, a daily 5 system,

Responding to text with prompts for journal entries. English language activities for reading and responding to text.

Who Needs to Use Reading Response Letters in the Classroom? You do! They are the perfect supplement to your daily conferring during Reading Workshop time! Reading Response Letters guarantee you hear from each reader, each week! They also replace those pesky reading logs (you know the ones that everyone lies on anyway - sorry/not sorry). Reading Response Letters: Allow your students time to reflect on their reading and to think deeply about the text Give you the opportunity to respond and…

Our school has always had a subsciption for Time for Kids for years now and with each weekly edition, we collaborate a variety of activities for students to respond to their reading. Today, I've included one such activity...a reading response menu for non-fiction text or in this case, Time for Kids. Use if you'd like! ~Erin