Reading Response Journals: Thinking About Characters - Year 2

About this teaching resource

Are you looking to improve your students’ reading achievement?

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

Engage your students in Thinking About Characters. It’s a great way to help your writers to think about how authors develop characters that have a story to tell. Maybe readers will even find some familiar characters with whom they might connect.

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 think about characters
• Reading Journal stickers – nifty little tools to stick into RJ’s that identify the RJ goal
• Comprehension strategies identified
• Thinkables to encourage your students to organize their thinking in new and creative ways.