Description

Scaffold Reader Response

In this world where we can share a reaction with a click of a heart, thumb, or emoji face, responses have become trite. In other words, students have experience responding on the surface level with an immediate opinion about whether or not they like (or love) something, but they have little chance to analyze those reactions beyond the click. This makes writing a thoughtful reader response nearly impossible!

Help these striving readers and writers become more skilled by delving into the idea of reacting to photos, then help them use advanced vocabulary to describe their feelings.

Use the included lesson plan, vocabulary sheet, and pictures to help your students get started on creating deeper responses!

Included:

• Lesson details
• Reaction vocabulary posters (color and grayscale) to move students beyond basic words
• 32 pictures to discuss viewer (“reader”) reactions
• PDF of all materials,
• and Google link to entire set of pictures & poster

Therefore, this is an excellent intervention level entry point for discussion about responses, moving into creating written responses. Use a picture each week, or group students and assign different pictures to each group. We chose more benign pictures as there are so many pictures on the internet meant to illicit shock value.

Read the HuddleTeach blog for more information and steps for building this skill!

This activity supports all standards that require identification of text evidence.

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