Hello Friends!
So today as I was sitting in a workshop and a new idea for a reading response center popped into my head..I needed something to keep my attention today! HAHA!
For their independent reading time students will read a story and write from the weekly reading response! I do not want students to write every day. During Independent reading, students should be READING and not writing all the time. I also think to get a well written reading response students should only have one to focus on. What do you think?
I was also thinking about this instead of my task cards. I found students wasting time during independent reading trying to pick which task card to use. I mean, I could use my task cards and just pull one a week...but I really like having this out for the WHOLE class to use the same one!
Anyways;)
I plan on making them half sheet size, but was also thinking of making a whole sheet!
I need your input!
Whole sheet or half sheet? Both?
Add cats or not add cats to the reading response? Both?
Would you like to see a blank and white set too?
I plan on having all of these colors with the set
I hopefully will have this done tomorrow! I have a few other things I reallllyyy want to work on!
I can't wait to read your input!
Have a great Tuesday!
well, adding more pages will up the price customers will have to pay, so keep that in kind...but I think anything you do to make your product versatile helps it to sell, so I would put BOtH half & full sheets, as well as color and B&W. I also think adding the cats to the response sheets help your students make connections back to the anchor charts, and that will hopefully remind them of your expectations;)
ReplyDeleteI love this! cute idea;)
SynonymRolls&AntonymMoments
Very true. I do my best to keep my products as cheap as possible! I so understand a budget! HAHA! I also plan on including an exemplar of what I would be looking for and what I wouldn't be looking for. I hope it will help guide students in writing a purrrrfect response;)
DeleteI agree of having variety, that way they can adapt it to their classroom needs. I wanted no cat, but having them make the connection would be great.
ReplyDeleteI have so far half sheets, whole sheets, black and white. With cats on all of them and without cats on all of them! Now I need to go type in my responses and make the exemplars!
DeleteI like the half sheets. Or you could make them even smaller and have students glue them into their notebook above their response. Just a thought!
ReplyDeleteI have also struggled with reading response because I want the kids to read during reading time, not always writing. Thanks for your insights!
Jennifer
Mrs. Laffin's Laughings
I like the half sheets a lot and I also like having a black and white option. This is a great idea!
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Polka Dot Lesson Plans
I also like the half sheets. I love Jennifer's idea too!
ReplyDeleteDeb
debinderry@gmail.com
I like the half sheets. Maybe have some with cats and without. Too cute!
ReplyDelete:) Kaitlyn
Smiles and Sunshine
I love the cats! I would prefer half sheets due to printing and storage. B&W would appease people who don't have the option for colour printing costs. I absolutely had to click on this post because my cat is called Jaspurr, so I love the word play!
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Mrs Poultney's Ponderings