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The Response Process | Elementary
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When you are done reading or viewing, go to your notebook and reflect on the information you learned from the text. You can do this by follow these steps:

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Summing Up the Main Points
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You sum up the main points when you briefly rephrase in your own words what you have read/viewed/listened to.

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Response Process - After Reading: 1 - Summarizing
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Here are examples of questions you may ask yourself when you are summing up the main points:

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Student in class reading a text and wondering what the main idea is.
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Student in class reading a text and wondering what the most important events in the story are.
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Student in class reading a text and wondering what the strongest arguments are.
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Analyzing and Interpreting
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To analyze and interpret, here’s what you need to do:

Read between the lines

Identify the author’s intention

Rate text quality

  • hidden meaning

  • message

  • theme(s)

  • text clarity

  • text structure

  • information relevance
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Response Process - After Reading: 2 - Analyze & Interpret
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Here are examples of questions you may ask yourself when you are:

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Reading between the lines
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Student in class reading the sentence “Beckie was under the weather” and trying to figure out the figurative meaning by reading between the lines.
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“What does it mean?”

“Is there a deeper meaning?” 

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Identifying the author’s intention
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Student in class reflecting on the author’s intention in the text she just read.
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“What are the intentions of the authors/creators?”

“What is the message that I must understand?”

“What are the themes that I have to explore?”

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Deciding if the message is clearly delivered and easy to understand
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Student in class trying to figure out what made the text she just read easy or challenging to understand.
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Type of question to ask yourself:
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“What made the message easy or challenging to understand?”

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Reflecting and Evaluating
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You reflect and evaluate when you:

  • Ask yourself questions to see if you connected to the text/media.

  • Try to go deeper in your understanding by asking yourself “what if” questions.

  • Try to figure out the important message from the text.

  • Express your personal opinion using structure and some sort of grading system (stars, thumbs up or down, etc).

  • Try to see if this story reminds you of anything happening in the real world.

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Response Process - After Reading: 3 - Reflect & Evaluate
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To reflect and evaluate:

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Ask yourself

How did you connect to…

… the text?
… the audio?
… the video(s)?
… the image(s)?

Does it remind you of something that happened…

… to you?
… to someone you know?
… close to you?
… somewhere around the world?

What if…? 
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Express and structure your opinion using

Clear and organized paragraphs

A grading system to grade your likes or dislikes:

  • stars

  • thumbs up/thumbs down 

  • grade out of 5 or 10
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Try and figure out the

  • message

  • theme(s)

  • intention
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Here are examples of questions you may ask yourself:

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When you want to make sure you connected to the text/media
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Student has just finished reading a text and is trying to make connections between the text and his own life.
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“How does this story remind me of something I experienced in my own life?”

“How do I connect with the characters or share some of their feelings?”

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When you try to go deeper in your understanding using “if” questions
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Student reading a text and asking herself questions beginning with “What if…” to try and figure out different outcomes or alternatives to the story.
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"How would the ending change if the story were different?"

"If I met a character, what would I ask him/her?"

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When you try to figure out the key message from the text.
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A young student is thinking about the key message of a text he’s just finished reading.
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“What did I learn from this?”

“What could I do differently after reading this?”

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When you express your personal opinion using some sort of grading system (stars, thumbs up or down, etc.)
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Two students sharing thoughts about a text and using symbols such as thumbs up and stars to express their appreciation.
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Type of questions to ask yourself:
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“Would I recommend this to a friend? Why or why not?”

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When you try to see if this story reminds you of anything happening in the real world
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A young girl is reading a book that talks about a solar eclipse and she remembers that she watched an eclipse not so long ago.
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Type of questions to ask yourself:
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“How can I make connections between what I have learned and what is going on in the world?”

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After Reading Steps Recap
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The three tasks to accomplish in the after-reading/after-viewing phase of the response process.
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Response Proces - After Reading Summary - Dowloadable
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Full Response Process at a Glance
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A full recap of the entire reading response: before reading, during reading and after reading.
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Full Response Process - Downloadble
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See Also
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Title
The Response Process
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/en/students/vl/english/the-response-process-e0275
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The Response Process - Before Reading
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/en/students/vl/english/the-response-process-before-reading-e0276
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The Response Process - During Reading
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/en/students/vl/english/the-response-process-during-reading-e0277
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Reading Strategies | Elementary
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/en/students/vl/english/reading-strategies-elementary-e0105
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