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Literature Response Forms 

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 These 60 skills-based worksheets are designed to boost comprehension of all types of literature and engage a wide range of reading abilities.

Get started quickly with detailed planning and implementation guide for the whole class, small group, and individual activities, and assessment rubrics for teachers and students!

Planning and Implementation Guide Covers

  • Why Use Literature Response Forms?

  • Introducing Literature Response Forms in a Mini-Lesson

  • Organizing Literature Response Forms

  • Sharing Responses

  • Helping Students Select Appropriate Reading Texts

  • Tracking, Assessment and Individual Programing

  • Using the Blank Forms

  • Modeling the Literature Response Activities

  • Teacher-Student Conference Form

  • Student Reading Record

  • Student Tracking Sheet

Literature Response Activities

  • Prediction and Inference

  • Identifying Important Information

  • Character Analysis

  • Reasoning and Critical Thinking

  • Vocabulary Development

Blank Response Headers

  • 4 pages of headers and graphics to create your own literature response forms

List of Worksheets and Skills

Prediction and Inference Information Worksheets

  1. Predict-Read-Check

  2. Reading Preparation

  3. Questioning the Author

  4. Events and Emotions

  5. Before and After

  6. Text-to-Me

  7. Make a Connection

  8. Sequel

  9. What I Think I Know

  10. Story Study Predictions

Character Analysis Worksheets

  1. Character Web

  2. Real Life versus Fiction

  3. Character Impressions

  4. Your Traits - My Traits

  5. Portrait Gallery

  6. Character Scrutiny

  7. Character Evaluation

  8. Sketch Artist

  9. Feelings

  10. Character Attribute Web

Reasoning and Critical Thinking Worksheets

  1. Biography

  2. Add a New Character

  3. Creative Designer

  4. Join the Story

  5. The Finale

  6. Write a Letter

  7. Text-to-Text Connections

  8. How Would You Solve It?

  9. Novel Conflict

  10. Cover Illustrator

Identifying Important Information Worksheets

  1. Book Critic

  2. Getting the Main Idea

  3. Chain of Events

  4. Analytical Analyzer

  5. Chapter Chatter

  6. Problem Solver

  7. Reaching the Peak

  8. Fact or Fiction?

  9. Comparisons: Similes/Metaphors

  10. Guess-Check-Prove It!

Summarizing Events Worksheets

  1. Star Story Plotter

  2. First, Then, Next

  3. Story Stones

  4. Story Path

  5. Story Steps

  6. Playwright

  7. Basic Book Report

  8. Event Story Map

  9. Nonfiction Retell Outline

  10. 5W StoryMap

Vocabulary Development Worksheets

  1. Is It Really a Noun?

  2. Abstract Nouns

  3. The Clothes Nouns Wear

  4. Vocabulary Expansion

  5. Picturing Adjectives

  6. Get a Clue!

  7. Voracious Verbs

  8. Add-Ons

  9. End-Its

  10. Triangular Account

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