Reader Response Notebooks

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. 

A 5th grade teacher in NJ, Julie Roccanova, had her students share "What are the texts in our lives?" as a first day of school activity. " They loved it. They totally got the idea that texts and ideas are everywhere and they were really motivated to start their independent reading and jotting after using this as a jumping off point." I share more of these ideas in Chapter 2 of The Reader Response Notebook: Teaching Towards Agency, Autonomy, and Accountability.