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The Response Process - After Reading | Elementary
Concept sheet | English Language Arts
Grade
3-6
When you are done reading or viewing, go to your notebook and reflect on the information you learned from the text. You can do this by follow these steps:
Summing Up the Main Points
You sum up the main points when you briefly rephrase in your own words what you have read/viewed/listened to.
Response Process - After Reading: 1 - Summarizing
Here are examples of questions you may ask yourself when you are summing up the main points:
Analyzing and Interpreting
To analyze and interpret, here’s what you need to do:
| Read between the lines | hidden meaning |
| Identify the author’s intention | message |
| theme(s) | |
| Rate text quality | text clarity |
| text structure | |
| information relevance |
Response Process - After Reading: 2 - Analyze & Interpret
Here are examples of questions you may ask yourself when you are:
Reading between the lines
Types of questions to ask yourself:
- “What does it mean?”
- “Is there a deeper meaning?”
Identifying the author’s intention
Types of questions to ask yourself:
- “What are the intentions of the authors/creators?”
- “What is the message that I must understand?”
- “What are the themes that I have to explore?”
Deciding if the message is clearly delivered and easy to understand
Types of questions to ask yourself:
- “What made the message easy or challenging to understand?”
Reflecting and Evaluating
You reflect and evaluate when you:
- Ask yourself questions to see if you connected to the text/media.
- Try to go deeper in your understanding by asking yourself “what if” questions.
- Try to figure out the important message from the text.
- Express your personal opinion using structure and some sort of grading system (stars, thumbs up or down, etc).
- Try to see if this story reminds you of anything happening in the real world.
Response Process - After Reading: 3 - Reflect & Evaluate
To reflect and evaluate:
| Ask yourself | |
| How did you connect to… | … the text? |
| … the audio? | |
| … the video(s)? | |
| … the image(s)? | |
| Does it remind you of something that happened… | … to you? |
| … to someone you know? | |
| … close to you? | |
| … somewhere around the world? | |
| What if…? | |
| Express and structure your opinion using | |
| Clear and organized paragraphs | |
| A grading system to grade your likes or dislikes: | stars |
| thumbs up/thumbs down | |
| grade out of 5 or 10 | |
| Try and figure out the | message |
| theme(s) | |
| intention | |
Here are examples of questions you may ask yourself:
When you want to make sure you connected to the text/media
Types of questions to ask yourself:
- “How does this story remind me of something I experienced in my own life?”
- “How do I connect with the characters or share some of their feelings?”
When you try to go deeper in your understanding using “if” questions
Types of questions to ask yourself
- "How would the ending change if the story were different?"
- "If I met a character, what would I ask him/her?"
When you try to figure out the key message from the text.
Types of questions to ask yourself:
- “What did I learn from this?”
- “What could I do differently after reading this?”
When you express your personal opinion using some sort of grading system (stars, thumbs up or down, etc.)
Type of questions to ask yourself:
- “Would I recommend this to a friend? Why or why not?”
When you try to see if this story reminds you of anything happening in the real world
Type of questions to ask yourself:
- “How can I make connections between what I have learned and what is going on in the world?”
