A fifth-grade teacher in Denver Public Schools shared a great idea for reading response that her students love! She makes a tic-tac-toe board with a variety of reading responses on it. She got these ideas from searching the Internet and her own resources.
Students choose which reading response they’d like to do after finishing a book from independent reading time. They color in the square to show they’ve completed a response. The goal is to fill in X number of spaces per X number of weeks. You do the math and decide if you want them to do 3 in a row, black-out, or a specified amount of responses in a certain number of weeks. She said the kids really like the choice factor and the variety of responses they might do.
Let us know if you try this and how your students respond.
Upper grade Tic-Tac-Toe
October 23, 2009 by debbiediller
This is a gret idea can you include a copy of the tasks included or an enlarged photo, so I can get an idea of different tasks to choose.
There are so many possibilities of what to put in those squares. How about asking your students to come up with some possibilities?
Here are a few to get you started:
-Choose a favorite piece of dialogue and practice reading it like the character(s). Perform it for the class.
-Write a book review to encourage a classmate to read this book.
-Think of other books this book reminded you of. Make a text set (or collection of several related books) you would recommend to a friend. Write a short description of why someone might like reading this set of books. Put the books in a labeled basket along with your note.