Reading Response Notebook is Like Gold

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Objective

SWBAT organize and use their RRN to capture their thinking and to add on to their thoughts, cite evidence and justify theories.

Big Idea

Create a culture around the importance of students' reading response notebooks for documenting their reading progress.

Lesson Author

Teresa Klein

Seattle, WA

Grade Level

Fifth grade

Subjects

English / Language Arts

annotation

Writing

Reading

Reading Fluency

Standards

RL.5.1

Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

RL.5.2

Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.

RL.5.10

By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 4-5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

My Lens

I decided to reteach yesterday's lesson on developing and organizing the RRN because I focused too much on the analogy and not enough on the teaching points. So here it is.

Mini-Lesson

7 minutes

Independent Reading

35 minutes

The video clip shows how all the pieces can come together during independent reading so all students have an environment that supports independent work and small group instruction.