| Looking for a “thinking sheet” that will help your students to read nonfiction text more closely? Look no further! The Fact | Response chart is a great scaffold to helping students share their thinking while they read. This graphic organizer supports the RI.4.1 and 5.1 Common Core standards that require students to make inferences about informational text, using evidence explicitly stated in the text. Here is how the organizer works: - Read aloud a text or have students cloze read a text with you. - Have students read the text again with a partner, underlining facts that are interesting to them or that are important to remember. - Have students read the text a third time, this time they will write in the facts they underlined into the chart. - Have students pause at these facts and ask themselves: “What does this fact make me think about? How do I feel knowing this information?” - Students will then write and explain their response next to the fact. You can also modify this activity by writing in facts from the text ahead of time that you feel students may have a strong reaction to, or that are important to the author’s purpose for writing. When I do this, I will write the fact as a cloze passage so students still need to attend to the reading. This modification works for students who need more support identifying facts, or if you are using this activity with a nonfiction movie. Once you model this graphic organizer with your kids, they will know exactly what is expected of them each time, and you will be amazed at how deeply they look at a text. I have included the graphic organizer in this blog. Try this at home with your child or in your classroom and let me know what you think! |
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