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Reading Journal Prompts - Characters, Yr 6

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Years: 5-6

21 Pages

Product Code: TEAC2323

Resource Type: Classroom Resources

About this teaching resource

This resource, Reading Journal Prompts - Characters, has a variety of prompts to use with your students to help them think about characters in fiction they are reading or you are reading to them.

  • In addition there is a page of stickers for each prompt which you can cut up and place next to the students' responses to that prompt.

The importance of writing about reading.

  • When children write about their reading, they are being given an opportunity to provide evidence of their thinking.
  • When we examine writing in response to reading, we can learn about how well readers have understood a text.
  • Through writing - and drawing - readers can express and expand their thinking and improve their ability to reflect on a text.
  • They can also communicate their thinking about texts to a variety of audiences for a variety of purposes.
  • By modelling effective examples of writing about reading, children learn how to use writing to reflect on reading.
  • We model the specific behaviours and understandings to support students to think within, beyond, and about text.
  • Whole and small-group discussion support independent writing about reading. Discussion reminds writers of key characteristics of the text and author's craft.
  • Gradually, students will build up a repertoire of ways of writing about reading.


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