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Crafting a Reading Response Letter: Essential Elements and Focus Topics

This guide outlines the required components of a reading response letter, emphasizing the key elements such as date, greeting, indented paragraphs, book title and author, a brief summary, opinion on the text, connections to personal experiences or external contexts, and questions to deepen understanding. Each week, a new focus topic will be introduced, requiring readers to express their opinions about the book. Engage in thoughtful reflection, make meaningful connections, and enhance your literary comprehension through effective response letters.

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Crafting a Reading Response Letter: Essential Elements and Focus Topics

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  1. Reading ResponseLetter

  2. Required Elements • Date • Greeting • Paragraphs indented • Author & Title of the book • Brief Summary • Response to the Focus Topic • Make a Connection • Ask Questions • Closing Comments • Closing • Signature

  3. Brief Summary • Tell me what happened in your book using your own words! • 5 W’s and How • Who • What • When • Where • Why • How

  4. Response to the Focus Topic • Each week I will give you a Focus Topic for you Reading Response Letter • You will have to make sure the Focus Topic is included in your letter. • This week Focus Topic is opinions. • In your letter you will have to tell me your opinion of your book. • Do you like the story? Why or why not? • Would you recommend this book to a friend? • Could the author have done anything differently?

  5. Good Readers Make Connections • Text to Text • This book reminds me of a book I read… • Text to Self • This book reminds me of something that happened in my life… • Text to World • This book reminds me of something that happened in the world. • When making a connection make sure to include how it relates back to the book! • This book reminds me of the time I went strawberry picking with my family. I made this connection because the little boy in the story loved to go strawberry picking with his brother.

  6. Good Readers ask Questions! • Asking questions helps you understand the text better. • Ask Questions... • Before Reading • Speculate about what might happen in the story • Make predictions • During Reading • to clarify confusion • wonder what will happen next • After Reading • Enhance comprehension • Make connections

  7. Closing Comment • Before closing your letter to me, I want to you leave me with some a closing comment. • Tell me some more! • Tie it all together! • I love to read books like Harry Potter. I like to pretend that I can also do magic. At least while I am reading the book, I can create magic, because I am Harry.

  8. Scoring Guide _____/1 Date _____/1 Greeting _____/1 Paragraphs Indented _____/5 Focus Topic _____/2 Author & Title _____/5 Brief Summary _____/10 Made Connection _____/2 Asked Questions _____/1 Closing Comments _____/1 Closing _____/1 Signature ____/30 _____ Grade

  9. Sample Reader’s Response Letter • sample letter.docx

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