Reader’s Response Letter - PowerPoint Presentation

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Reader’s

Response

Letter

Required Elements

Date

Greeting

Paragraphs indented

Author & Title of the book

Brief Summary

Response to the Focus Topic

Make a Connection

Closing

Signature

Neat handwriting!!

Brief Summary

Tell me what happened in your book using your own words!

5 W’s and How

Who

What

When

Where

Why

How

Response to the Focus Topic

Each week I will give you a

Focus Topic

for you Reading Response Letter

You will have to make sure the

Focus Topic

is included in your letter.

This week

Focus Topic

is

characters and setting.

In your letter you will have to tell me about the characters and setting of your book.

Who are the main characters?

Where does the book take place?

What does the setting of the book tell you about the characters’ role in

the story?

Good Readers Make Connections

Text to Text

This book reminds me of a book I read…

Text to Self

This book reminds me of something that happened in my life…

Text to World

This book reminds me of something that happened in the world.

When making a connection make sure to include how it relates

back to the book

!

This book reminds me of the time I went strawberry picking with my family. I made this connection because the little boy in the story loved to go strawberry picking with his brother.

Scoring Guide

Reader’s Response Scoring Guide

_____/1 Date

_____/2 Greeting and Closing

_____/2 Author and Title

_____/2 Paragraphs Indented

_____/5 Focus Topic:

_____/10 Brief Summary

_____/5 Made Connection

_____/1 Signature

_____/2 Neatness

___________/30 _________ Grade

Sample Reader’s Response Letter

September

16, 2014

Dear

Miss

Magliato

,

I am reading a wonderful book this week. I am sure you have read it or at least watched the movie. The book is

Matilda

by Roald Dahl.

I know you have probably read this book, but I want to tell you about what I read this week. At this point in the book, Matilda has just received her very own library card. Every single day after her rotten old parents leave for work, Matilda walks by herself to the library. The librarian is very nice to her and helps her find tons of books. She spends hours upon hours reading! Matilda reads so many amazing books, including books that high school students read. She’s only 5 and understands so much, it’s so amazing!

When Matilda’s parents got home and saw her reading they got so mad at her. Her father screamed and yelled at her for reading!! Could you imagine?? Why would her parents yell at her for doing something that’s going to make her smarter?! I couldn’t believe it!

Matilda then asks her parents if she could go to school and they tell her absolutely not! If I were Matilda I would be so disappointed! This is where I stopped reading for the week. I can’t wait to read on and see if Matilda gets to go to school or not. I think she definitely should because she is so smart and she will learn even more!

In my opinion Roald Dahl does a wonderful job of making you feel as if you can really hear the characters. I can just imagine Matilda’s dad, as his face turns bright red and he screams at her for reading books!!

I really can’t wait to dive back into my book tonight. I’ll fill you in on what happens in my next letter!

Your

student,

Ima

Reader

Organize your notebook

Reader’s Response Letter Breakdown: put this on the inside cover of your notebook

Reader’s

Repsonse

Scoring Guide:

Put this on the first page of your notebook

Sample letter: Put this on the back of the first page

Letter from me: Put this on the second page