Reading Response Journals: Getting started - Year 4

About this teaching resource

Are you looking to improve your students’ reading achievement?

Reading Response Journals are an easy way to start achieving this now.

Sharon has been a long time advocate and user of Reading Response Journals. She has seen the impact - enabling readers to not only lift their reading achievement, but to find that they can really get to the heart of what reading is all about.

Get started with this Getting Started toolkit. At your fingertips you’ll find:

• Information to help you get started
• A possible weekly routine
• The importance of Read Aloud
• Links to the Australian Curriculum
• Mini Lessons - when you can model how to get started with a Reading Response Journal
• Reading Journal stickers – nifty little tools showing the Reading Journal goal
• Reading Logs, Reading Surveys, all the tools you need to get started

When your students write regularly in a Reading Response Journal you open a way for them to:

• Explore texts in ways they have not yet considered
• Enter new territories and create new understandings
• Be actively curious; to explore, search, wonder and question
• Demonstrate, chronicle and celebrate their growth as a reader
• Develop comprehension strategies to deeply understand texts as they are reading
• Be delighted as they become better readers