Reading Journal Prompts - Characters, Yr 6

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.