For instance, if you teach language arts and the goal of the unit is teaching students how to write an
effective response to literature or a literary analysis essay, who says everyone has to write about the same book written by some ancient dead writer (no offense, dead writers)?
After the initial fishbowl discussion phase, a typical Book Club day began with book clubs (discussion in small groups), followed by community share (whole class discussion), mini lesson, reading in groups, and ended with individual writing in response to prompt questions (open - ended questions designed to engage students in personal, critical, and
creative responses to literature).
Written responses to literature: You can use discussion questions as writing prompts, have students write the next chapter or pages of the book as they imagine it, write diary entries of their favorite character, or write book reviews.
You could turn
this response to literature unit into a book club unit where students make cases for picking their suggested book to be read and analyzed by the rest of the class.
According to the Georgia Performance Standard ELA4W2, «The student produces
a response to literature that
: Student perspectives on multimodal composing in
response to literature.
In addition, different kinds of writing tasks — persuasive essays, research papers, journalistic reports,
responses to literature — encourage students to develop the full range of their writing and thinking skills in ways that writing a five - paragraph essay over and over again do not.
Writing is integrated throughout the curriculum, including personal journals,
responses to literature, poetry, and creative stories.
Additionally, there is also a comprehensive writing centered workshop curriculum in place that contains such pieces as editorials, short stories, poetry, memoirs, and
response to literature.
Thus, it is important for teachers to help students recognize and value
their responses to the literature they read.
The Connecticut State Standards require that we teach all students in kindergarten through seniors in high school the two different ways of reading: reading for information and reading in
response to literature.
Second, time and space were created for the students to discuss
their responses to literature.
In
response to the literature, Barnes, Bauza, and Treiber (2003) have recommended implementing interventions similar to that of Lesson One that teach skills in stress reduction.
At home, Pickle excels in language arts, composing beautifully written essays, journals, and
responses to literature.
on this, she rightly explains that Catton — responding to an instance of reader indignation at writer's use of a 50 - cents word --» treats the reader's ire as a symptom of the creeping consumerist attitude in
our response to literature.»
Writing
a response to literature essay is not simply a matter of reading the text, understanding it, and expressing an opinion about it.