Reading Response Journal and I Can Statements

Reading Response Journal and I Can Statements: Astute Hoot’s Reading Response Journals can be used as a tool in the classroom as part of guided reading, reading intervention and/or independent reading. The reading response journals provide students with a structured format in which to respond to their reading.  I Can Statements are included to anchor standards-based instruction and focus students on the essential goals of the lesson.  This reading response journal includes:

-Journal cover

-Suggestions for use

-Reading strategies poster

-Reading response journal sentence stems

-Various reading journal page options

-Customizable I Can statements for each reading strategy

-2 different reading response rubrics

My students LOVE using the reading response journals and take great pride in them.  I use the journals for all of their literacy instruction and they make a wonderful portfolio of their progress throughout the year.