Reader Response Notebooks

 Dina Weiss, 4th grade teacher, also uses the RRN with her undergraduate students at Queens College.  Dina reports:  QC students are developing their own reading responses that are accumulated in a journal for the purpose of showing their future students how to respond to text meaningfully. It's an assignment in my syllabus that they create a reading response, mentor journal that they can use during strategy group work to help students build their comprehension.  Here are some more photos. One of the QC students took it upon herself to create a new reading responses. She merged her love of art with the reading response work. She understood the power of reading responses to elevate a students deep thinking of a text. She made an Instagram page for a character, she visually showed the complexity of problems a character was having, and I she showed the intersection of theme and complexity of character relationships using a color-coded system.                          

4th Grade Teacher, Dina Weiss (Ed.D.), shares the following (Jan., 2023):  the students in my class doing a kind of speed dating community share of their reading responses based on their independent books. They were reading each other's responses for the purpose of getting ideas for their own future response work, as well as giving supportive feedback on how their classmate can show deeper thinking with their work. 

 I only now found this post on Twitter from October 6. 2021, during the height of the pandemic. Thank you to @AmyLink11, who posted it: I love when teachers leave a PD & start implementing great strategies immediately! Kids were “speed dating” discussing whether numbers were odd or even! Best part: it was a strategy from the book The Reader Response Notebook by @tedsclassroom @AnnaTXTeacher @DISDElemMath . Check out this short, delightful video from Amy's class: https://twitter.com/i/status/1445929016754466816