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Literature Response Prompts
Literature Response Prompts
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Literature Response Prompts
Let your students choose their own prompts with this reading response exercise.
4th grade
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Literature Response Reflection Cards
Literature Response Reflection Cards
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Literature Response Reflection Cards
Help your students think deeply about literature with these helpful conversation starters.
4th grade
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Response to Literature
Response to Literature
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Response to Literature
After your students read an excerpt of The Land of the Blue Flower, ask them to respond to a writing prompt. Encourage them to use comparative works like similarly and unlike.
4th grade
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Literary Response Prompt: Theme
Literary Response Prompt: Theme
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Literary Response Prompt: Theme
This middle grades worksheet features two prompts aligned with Common Core standards for writing in response to literature, citing text evidence, and determining theme.
6th grade
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Five Ways to Respond to Literature
Five Ways to Respond to Literature
Lesson Plan
Five Ways to Respond to Literature
Prepare your students to analyze and respond to literature by practicing five types of responses: predictions, questions, clarification, connections, and opinions.
5th grade
Lesson Plan
Conflict in Literature
Conflict in Literature
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Conflict in Literature
Learn all about conflict in literature and how it makes the story possible in this conflict in literature worksheet.
4th grade
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Reading Response Letters
Reading Response Letters
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Reading Response Letters
How can you *see* what your students are thinking while they read? Try reading response letters in your class. Students will practice formatting letters and learn to discuss their thinking about literature in writing.
4th grade
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Literature Sleuth
Literature Sleuth
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Literature Sleuth
This worksheet teaches first graders to be literature sleuths by identifying which of the sample texts are fiction and which are nonfiction.
1st grade
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Glossary: Comparing Literature Themes
Glossary: Comparing Literature Themes
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Glossary: Comparing Literature Themes
Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing Literature Themes.
4th grade
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Stimulus and Response
Stimulus and Response
Science Project
Stimulus and Response
This science fair project evaluates which sense produces the fastest response time: hearing, touching, smelling or seeing.
Science Project
Elements of Traditional Literature
Elements of Traditional Literature
Lesson Plan
Elements of Traditional Literature
Teach your class about the genre of traditional literature, made up of stories from around the world that have been told for generations. In this lesson, students will read fairy tales and compare story elements in each piece of literature.
2nd grade
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Reading Response Letter Format
Reading Response Letter Format
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Reading Response Letter Format
Use this activity to teach students the structure and content of a reading response letter.
4th grade
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Vocabulary Cards: Comparing Literature Themes
Vocabulary Cards: Comparing Literature Themes
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Vocabulary Cards: Comparing Literature Themes
Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Comparing Literature Themes.
4th grade
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Literary Response Prompt: Characters
Literary Response Prompt: Characters
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Literary Response Prompt: Characters
Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.
6th grade
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Literature 1
Literature 1
Guided Lesson
Literature 1
This literature lesson guides kids towards a deeper understanding of second grade texts through an exploration of character, setting, and plot. Kids will be challenged to answer the who, what, where, when and why of a story, in addition to determining the story's message. Two versions of the same story will be presented in order for second graders to see story elements in action.
2nd grade
Guided Lesson
Reading Response Letter Checklist
Reading Response Letter Checklist
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Reading Response Letter Checklist
After students have learned about reading response letters they can use this checklist to polish their own letter.
4th grade
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Literary Response Prompt: Language
Literary Response Prompt: Language
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Literary Response Prompt: Language
Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the author’s use of language and literary devices in this literary response worksheet.
6th grade
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Reading Response Letter Interactive
Reading Response Letter Interactive
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Reading Response Letter Interactive
Students will look over a sample reading response letter and identify important elements in the text.
4th grade
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Planning Your Reading Response Letter
Planning Your Reading Response Letter
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Planning Your Reading Response Letter
Collect and organize your thoughts in preparation for a reading response letter with this graphic organizer.
4th grade
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Literary Response Prompt: Story Elements
Literary Response Prompt: Story Elements
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Literary Response Prompt: Story Elements
Students choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the interaction of different story elements in this literary response worksheet for middle school!
6th grade
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Amelia Earhart Reading Response
Amelia Earhart Reading Response
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Amelia Earhart Reading Response
Your students will love learning all about this fascinating historical figure while also practicing reading comprehension and reading response skills.
2nd grade
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The Elves and the Shoemaker: Writing Response
The Elves and the Shoemaker: Writing Response
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The Elves and the Shoemaker: Writing Response
Use this writing response to test your little reader's understanding of "The Elves and the Shoemaker" by the Brothers Grimm.
2nd grade
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Literary Response Prompt: Point of View
Literary Response Prompt: Point of View
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Literary Response Prompt: Point of View
Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing characters’ points of view in a story in this literary response worksheet for middle grades.
6th grade
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Literary Nonfiction Response Prompt: Word Choice
Literary Nonfiction Response Prompt: Word Choice
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Literary Nonfiction Response Prompt: Word Choice
Choose your literary nonfiction response prompt! Students will choose one of two writing prompts focused on analyzing the impact of an author’s word choice.
6th grade
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Response Writing: Comparing Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts
Response Writing: Comparing Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts
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Response Writing: Comparing Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts
This activity, complete with sentence frames and a word bank with key words and phrases, can be used to assist those students who need extra support with writing a response.
4th grade
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Response to Literature Resources

Test your students’ reading comprehension with these resources that encourage a response to literature. Workbooks for upper elementary students provide in-depth practice responding to passages and incorporate interesting social studies lessons. Stories about Ichabod Crane and Peter Pan make responding to literature fun and creative. For more reading practice, head over to our reading fiction resources.