READING RESPONSE NOTEBOOK

Students should bring their Reading Response Journal home with them each night. Students are expected to respond to their reading ONCE PER WEEK in this journal. Below you can find the rubric that will be used to score journals periodically throughout the year.  Students also have a list of "Response Stems" in their journals that can be used to begin responses.

 Analysis of Text:

Write using a reader’s notebook stem, write about a literary element (plot, character, conflict, theme, setting), write using a notice and note strategy, or think and write about WHY the author wrote the text as he or she did.

Sample Response Stems:

Do you want to be a better reader?  Write about reading! Don’t forget to use textual evidence in your response!  

Response to Reading Rubric

0

1

2

3

4

Length of Response

There is no response, or the response is three sentences or less.

The entry has four sentences.

The entry has five to six sentences.

The entry contains seven sentences.

The entry has seven or more sentences with varied sentence structure.

Literary Analysis

There is no response.

The response does not correspond to the text.

The response is primarily a summary of the reading, with very little, if any, analysis of the text and/or detail.

The response displays some analysis of the text, but includes little detail and may not include text evidence.

The response displays a thorough analysis of the text, including examples, details, and textual evidence.

 Analysis of Text:

Write using a reader’s notebook stem, write about a literary element (plot, character, conflict, theme, setting), write using a notice and note strategy, or think and write about WHY the author wrote the text as he or she did.

Sample Response Stems:

Do you want to be a better reader?  Write about reading! Don’t forget to use textual evidence in your response!

I noticed…

I wonder why…

It seems like…

I’m not sure…

I loved the way…

I was surprised….

I discovered…

What would happen if….

Oh, I get it….

I don’t like this part because….

This is confusing because…

I like the part where…

I predict….

This character makes me think of…

This setting makes me think of….

This is hard to understand because….

I think this part is really saying….

A question I have is…

I started to think….

I can’t really understand why….

If I could change one thing about this part, it    would be…

This book kept my interest because...

I know the feeling…..

I realized….

If I were……

Why did…….

At first I thought…..

This makes sense now…..

My favorite part so far is….

I think that….

This reminds me of…

This character is like….

I like this book because….

I don’t like this book because….

I can connect to this…

The setting of this story is important because….

When I read this part, I felt….

The most exciting part of this book was…

I think this book is really about…..

If I could meet any character in this book, I would choose____________ because…

I think the most important part of this book was…..

One character in this book who changed was____________ by…

RIDE Method

Students are expected to answer Open-Ended Questions following the RIDE Method.

R- Restate the question

I- state your Ideas

D- provide Details (from the text when applicable!!)

E- Ending sentenecs

The following rubric will be used to score Open-Ended Responses.

OPEN-ENDED WRITING RUBRIC

R.I.D.E.

4-    

Student shows understanding of the question and answers all parts of the question. The question is restated, and the student has provided details/examples from the text to support their ideas and opinions. The student ends his or her response with a closing sentence.

3-    

Student shows understanding of the question and answers all parts of the question. The student has provided details/examples from the text to support their ideas and opinions.   The student is either missing the restated question or closing sentence.

2-    

Student shows understanding of the question, but has not answered all parts of the question or has not provided details/examples from the text to support their ideas and opinions. They may or may not be missing the restated question or the closing sentence.  

1-

Student shows little to no understanding of the question and has not completely answered it.

0-

Student’s answer is off-topic or unrelated.