Are you always on the hunt for a great Reading Response Activity?

As an upper elementary teacher, you probably spend a good chunk of your time reading novels with your students. Am I right?

Well, I’m here to give you some activities to use with your students during your next novel unit.  Whether your students are reading the novel as a whole-class, in guided reading groups, in literature circles, or even as individuals, there are some activities that work great with almost any novel.  

Tune in to this episode as I'm going to share 6 great activities that I have used over and over in the different novels that I have read with my own students. You’ll love the wide-range of reading activities that will tap in to a variety of reading skills and strategies!

You’ll Learn

(Timestamps Shown)

• A great activity to help students classify book characters (1:40)

• What I use to have students keep track of the characters throughout the novel (4:19)

• How to easily turn an excerpt from the novel into a reader’s theater script for a great fluency practice activity (6:42)

• How to use nonfiction texts to compliment your fiction novels (8:15)

• A great end-of-unit novel activity that uses book quotes in a small-group reading center (9:28)

• An activity that supports students in showing how their thinking changes throughout a story (11:15)

LINKS & RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE

Novel Unit Activities (click on each image to check out the novel unit the activity is from):

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