Reading Responses

From the first day of school my class did very well at Read-to-Self.  I was fortunate in that they had plentiful amount of reading stamina. 

I decided to pair these sustained reading times with Reading Responses that prompt students to begin critically deconstructing what they are reading.  These responses are meant to pair with critical thinking practices that are required of higher-order literary analysis.

To formulate the responses, I decided to practice backwards planning (backwards design), using the Common Core State Standards to inform what I want students to learn.  Over the next three posts I will be highlighting my three reading responses (they are the ones that have been introduced so far).