Reader Response Worksheets

Related ELA Standard: RI.5

Core Standard

A reader response criticism is a written piece that explores how a body of work affected the experience of the reader. The purpose of writing a reader response is to scrutinize or justify your personal reaction to what you have read. This form of work is often a subjective piece of writing that should in fact be taken personally. Do not state what you think the reader wants to hear, instead focus on how the work that you read made you feel on many different levels. The best way to approach this type of work is to think of it as a full-on editorial of your opinions of the piece. Use direct quotes from the piece to exemplify how you are drawn towards or away from what it explores. This selection of worksheets helps students find their inner voice towards an author's work.

Reader Response Worksheets To Print:

Building Vocabulary Comprehension - This works alongside of you while you are reading and responding to something.

Cause and Effect - Find problems in the work you are reading and how they come full circle. This exercise will help you form a better response.

Determining Importance/Fictional Text - What are the major events occurring in your story? How do they change your thoughts on the piece?

Determining the Main Idea - What supports the facts and details of the story? We explore how to quickly understand this.

Poetry Characteristics - The main styles you will find are: free verse, rhymed, or patterned style.

Making Inferences - When making inferences about a text, consider what the author says in the text.

Making Meaning - A good reader response uses previous experiences and what they already know to make meaning of something new.

Narrative Story Elements - Narrative Story Elements highlight the plot by examining the main characters, setting, events, problem and solutions that occur through the text.

Predictions - Good readers make predictions in a story using what they already know or think will happen next based upon the current plot.

Problem and Solution - As you are reading a text, state any of the problems presented in the text. Once the problem has been resolved, write the solution.

Questioning Text Using "I Wonder" Statements - It is important to note that not all of your questions will fully answered by the end of the text.

Recalling Facts from a Nonfiction Text - Nonfiction texts provider readers information about people, places, events, living, and nonliving things.

Summarizing - Think about what you just read in the text. Select three supporting details to help summarize what happened in the storyline. When creating a response, this is a critical component.

Using Text Features in Nonfiction Text - Text features include charts, graphs, photographs, captions, titles, timelines, and subheadings.

Visualizing - Some authors use strong sensory words that help us to better see and imagine what is happening in the text.

How to Reflect on What You Read


Reading is an important activity for various reasons and it is also very important to reflect on what you read. Reflection means to come back to what you have read. It is important and worthy for a reader to reflect on his reading after reading the text. This way the reader will get help to develop stronghold on the content of the text and the main issue. This habit of reflecting upon reading allows the reader to sharpen his memory and to store necessary details and key points in his mind. This way the reader can also use the stored information in any writing situation. There are several ways to reflect on reading.


Make Use of Your Personal Journal

One of the most effective techniques to reflect on reading is to write the important heading and key points in your notebook. Writing the read text will help the reader to later go through it in the time of need. Moreover, it is a fact that noting things helps you to memorize things easily.


Create a Minute Paper

Minute paper is another way to reflect what the reader has read. Writing a minute paper also saves time and energy of the reader. When you, a reader, has a minute paper, you do not have to look for the written key points at different places, you will get the required information from one paper. Minute paper is effective as the reader only writes the important clues of the text on the paper.


Highlight the Text

Highlighting the text is one of the easiest ways to quickly go through the already read text. A reader needs to have a highlighter while reading a text so whenever the reader finds an important point, he can highlight it. Moreover, the use of colorful highlighters develops the reader's interest in revising the text.


Qualities of Well Written Reader Responses


As we have discussed and alluded to throughout this page, reader response compositions require a mature approach to writing. This requires you to take an objective attitude towards your work. This is not a book report where you say whether you simply liked or disliked a piece. When you are putting together your composition you must assume that the audience has already read the piece and is looking for your thoughts on the work as a whole. We have identified several attributes of well-developed reader responses. A well-established composition often requires a good plan and brainstorming session. They often begin with the responder explaining how they related to the piece personally. Do you identify with the piece or does it clash with your view of the world? If you state criticism, make certain that you include direct examples. If you use quotations, keep them short and sweet. Your focus should be centered on the intentions of the author and their main intentions with the piece that they have created.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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