Your 2nd and 3rd graders will love learning the essentials of responding to literature with fun-filled activities such as Predict-and-Check Journal, Story-Spinner Wheel, and Scene-Setting Travel Brochures. Includes lessons and strategies for teaching students how to summarize a book's main ideas, focus on key elements, and offer and support opinions about the text. Students will also learn about presenting literature response in various formats and evaluating their own work. Plus a BIG, colorful poster with tips for writing "Juicy Book Reviews"! Book jacket.
This thematically arranged anthology incorporates poetry, drama, fiction, and the essay. Four introductory chapters illustrate ways of responding to and writing about literature, with numerous examples of student writing.
This thematically arranged anthology encourages the readers response to a diverse selection of literature, including the essay.
The adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day. On board pages.
" A mysterious stranger's power over the changing seasons is the theme for this magical story, filled with Allsburg's rich full-color illustrations.
Responding to Literature
“ The Heaven of Animals ” from Drowning with Others by James Dickey . Copyright © 1962 by Wesleyan University . Reprinted by permission of University Press of New England . Nancy Wood " I Went to Kill the Deer " and " I Have Killed the ...
This booklet was prepared for use as a staff development presentation in response to an official statement by International Reading Association's "Executive Board that literature (and the reading and writing...
Based on the idea that conversational interaction between students and teachers in the classroom is the best way to learn, this book focuses on classroom talk about book-related topics.
A collection of classroom-tested teaching strategies and student activities that promote rereading and generate literature response in numerous formats.
This book considers how a combination of place-based writing and location responsive technologies produce new kinds of literary experiences.