Teaching often requires one to think on their feet (it is hard to prepare for all possibilities). When I was presenting reading response one to the class, I was approached by one of my students. This student loves the natural sciences and reading non-fiction, and was having a hard time understanding how to complete the first reading response using non-fiction. I decided to create a second reading response for not fiction literature that involved students recording facts they glean from a text. It was simple and straightforward, yet utilizes many note-taking and information gathering skills that we had been learning in class.
(Note: This reading response can be used for more than just non-fiction. You could prompt students to write three new things they learned over the course of their reading time. This would force students to categorize and analyze closely what they had read that day.)
Common Core State Standards (this one has many potential standards it can align with):
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.10 By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 2–3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
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