Reading Response - Comprehension Questions, Activities for Any Book Bundle

The resources in this reading response bundle can be used with any text to help your students practice different comprehension skills in a variety of fun ways. The resources are low prep and are great to have on hand for those days when you need something engaging but don't have as much prep time as you would like.

The comprehension activities for any book include:

1. Before, During and After Reading Questions

These 96 questions - both in list form and in question card form - can be used to help promote higher level thinking in your students before reading, during reading, and after reading a text. There are questions specific to both fiction and nonfiction texts.

2. Reading Response Activities for Fiction

• 15 Various No Prep Reading Response Worksheets - no prep activities like Interviewing a Friend, A-Z, Story Rewrites, Find the Fib, Reading Scavenger Hunt, Book Review, and more
• 5 No Prep "Writing Poetry as a Reading Response" - students are guided through different steps to help them write poems (including haiku, acrostic, quatrains, and more) about the fiction text they have read
• 4 "Find Someone Who" Reading Response Activities - a fun, whole class way to have students practice listening and speaking skills while responding to a text
• 2 Following Directions One Pager Activities - students complete different comprehension tasks after reading a fiction text to create a colorful "one pager."

3. Reading Response Activities for Nonfiction

• 15 Various No Prep Reading Response Worksheets - no prep activities like Asking Questions, Quoting the Text, Comparing 2 Texts, Letter to the Author, Book Poster, Top 10, and more
• 5 No Prep "Writing Poetry as a Reading Response" - students are guided through different steps to help them write poems (including cinquain, couplets, shape poem, and more) about the nonfiction text they have read
• 4 "Find Someone Who" Nonfiction Reading Response Activities - a fun, whole class way to have students practice listening and speaking skills while responding to a text
• 2 Following Directions One Pager Activities - students complete different comprehension tasks after reading an informational text to create a colorful "one pager."

4. Asking and Answering Questions for Fiction Texts Task Cards

These task cards can be used over and over again with ANY fiction text you have read. The task cards offer sentence starters, prompts, and different ideas to help students ask a variety of questions about the text they have read. Then, students get to answer the questions they came up with.

5. Asking and Answering Questions for Nonfiction Texts Task Cards

This low prep resource will help your students learn how to ask questions about a nonfiction text / informational text they have read. The more students practice asking their own questions about a text, the easier it will be for them to answer those questions and think critically about what they have read. Students are prompted to ask certain kinds of questions about the informational text they have read and then answer those questions.

6. Grading Rubrics

Check out the previews for each of the files in this bundle so you know exactly what is included in this resource and if it will work well for your 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade classroom!

Kalena Baker, Teaching Made Practical