Blog #3

The reader response is a way to check for reader comprehension. It gives the teacher the ability to identify how well the student understood the text or story he/she read. As teachers we will use this effective tool when we engage our students in their daily reading activities or reading material in any given subject. One of the most popular ways to check for reading comprehension is to have students keep a reader’s response journal. Students can keep a reader’s response journal to write their thoughts, feeling, or connections to the subjects they read about. As teachers, we would be able to read these journals and make sure that their journal entries align with the reading subject matter covered.

Other ways to check for reading comprehension are:

Write a letter to the teacher
Compare and contrast characters, two books or texts, etc.
Create an alternate ending.
Create a book jacket.
Summarize a book
Write a letter to a character.
Make a puzzle depicting a scene or a character.
Create a poem about the text.
Create a crossword puzzle based on the story.
Make a cartoon of your favorite scene or an entire story.
Write a review.
Create a scrapbook.

My favorite book we read was My Great-Aunt Arizona by Gloria Houston. I liked the idea of a teacher making an impact on many generations of students. I would read this to my students and explain to them that we all have an impact in someone’s life. I would also point out to my students that books permit us a way to travel to other places and times.

My least favorite book was The Amazing Bone by William Steigh. This book was too wordy. I did not like the way the story flowed. I felt that the story-line was choppy and disconnected.