Responding and the Construction of Meaning Chapter 7.

Responding and the Construction of

Meaning

Chapter 7

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Chapter-Opening Graphic Organizer


Types of Responses

• Personal• Creative


Figure 7.1: Personal Response to The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Lewis, 1950).


Figure 7.3: Creative Response to Miss Nelson is Missing (Allard & Marshall, 1977)


Promoting Response

• Journals• Response Charts• Literature Discussion• Readers Theater


Types of Journals

• Diaries• Response Journals• Dialogue Journals• Double-entry Journals• Learning Logs


Figure 7.4: Page from a Fourth Grader’s Response Journal.


Figure 7.5: Page froma Dialogue Journal


Figure 7.6: Double-EntryJournal of a Seventh Grader


Figure 7.7: Sample Entry from a Learning Log, Third Grade


Figure 7.8: Letter for Introducing Journals to Third Graders.


Figure 7.11: Partial Readers Theater Script forTy May and the Magic Brush (Bang, 1981).


Terms You Need to Know

■ analysis■ creative response■ dialogue journals■ diaries■ double-entry journals■ generalization■ journals■ learning logs

■ literature discussion group/circle■ personal response■ readers theater■ responding■ response charts■ response journals (reading journals, literature logs)■ retelling■ summary

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