Response to Literature

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Response to Literature
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Map Your Response

• Be prepared to answer multiple questions for each
  reading passage.
• Consider the thinking map you want for each
  question.
• Be sure to map out your thinking for each
  question.
• Build your paragraphs of response from the map
  you have created.

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The Circle Map
Defining in Context
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The Bubble Map
Describing
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The Double Bubble Map
Comparing and Contrasting
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The Flow Map
Sequencing
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The Multi-Flow Map
Cause and Effect
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The Tree Map
Classifying
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Is there more than one way to map?

• Yes.
• What map do you want to use to summarize a story?
• Could you use a Flow Map? Multi Flow Map?
• Could you use a Tree Map?
• Could you create a map to show beginning middle
  and end?
• Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes..and Yes!

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Our Goal

• Our goal is to get our students to connect to the
  knowledge of the text by seeing similarities and
  differences between the events and characters of
  the story and themselves. (Reflection)
• We want students to stand back from the text and
  think about what why the author created the story
  and why they created the story the way they did.
  (Craft)

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Training Wheels

• Start out by telling students what map to use.
• Move on to giving them a choice of what map will
  work best.
• Questions that students will see for their
  response to literature, you may want to ask in
  oral discussion.

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Sample Generic Prompts

• Describe the characters of the story.
• Summarize the story.
• How are the characters of the story different?
• What lesson does this story teach us?
• Think about what the character did at the end.
  What would you do differently? Why?
• What kind of person do you think the character
  was?

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Sample Generic Prompts

• What advice would you give to this character?
• Why do you think the author gave this story this
  title?
• How does this story make you feel?
• How does this story relate to your life?
• Why do you think the character did this?

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Sample

• Think about the story of the 3 Little Pigs.
• Response to Literature Prompt
• Explain how the pigs in the story are different.
• What is the lesson we should learn from this
  story?
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• Right away, the first thing we should think about
  is what map we can use.

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The Double Bubble Map
Comparing and Contrasting
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The Tree Map
Classifying
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The Multi-Flow Map
Cause and Effect
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Each Response should have an introduction

• The introductory paragraph should be short and
  to the point. A quick summary, title, and author
  are the best ingredients for a great opening
  paragraph.
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• Sample introduction for The 3 Little Pigs
• The 3 Little Pigs is a great story about doing
  things the right way.

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Explain how the pigs in the story are different.
House of straw House built easily House blown
down Ran away
House of bricks Harder to build House not blown
down Helped 2 brothers Taught wolf a lesson
House of sticks House built easily House blown
down Ran away Helped brother

• The first pig built his house of straw. The
  house was easy to build. When the wolf came, he
  blew down the house of straw. When the house
  fell, the pig ran away.

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Explain how the pigs in the story are different.
House of straw House built easily House blown
down Ran away
House of bricks Harder to build House not blown
down Helped 2 brothers Taught wolf a lesson
House of sticks House built easily House blown
down Ran away Helped brother

• The second pig built his house of sticks. The
  house was easy to build also. When the wolf
  came, he blew down the house of sticks. When the
  house fell, the pig ran away with his brother.

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Explain how the pigs in the story are different.
House of straw House built easily House blown
down Ran away
House of bricks Harder to build House not blown
down Helped 2 brothers Taught wolf a lesson
House of sticks House built easily House blown
down Ran away Helped brother

• The third pig built his house of bricks. The
  house was harder to build and took more time.
  When the wolf came, he could not blow down the
  house of bricks. He was able to help his two
  brothers by having a home tat didnt fall. He
  also taught the wolf a lesson by boiling the pot
  of water for the wolf when he came down the
  chimney.

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What is the lesson we should learn from this
story?
You are able to help others when you do things
the right way for yourself. Pigs safe on the
inside.
1st pig needed help. Did things quick and easy.
2nd pig needed help. Did things quick and easy.
3rd pig didnt need help. Took time did things
right, bricks. Able to help others.
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What is the lesson we should learn from this
story?

• The lesson that we can learn from this story is
  that you are able to help others when you do
  things the right way. The last pig did things
  the right way when he made his house out of
  bricks because the wolf couldnt blow it down.
  The pigs stayed inside and remained safe from the
  wolf.

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Sample

• Think about the story of the 3 Little Pigs.
• Response to Literature Prompt
• Explain how the pigs in the story are different.
• What is the lesson we should learn from this
  story?
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• How does it look when it is all put together?

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• The 3 Little Pigs is a great story about doing
  things the right way.
• The first pig built his house of straw. The
  house was easy to build. When the wolf came, he
  blew down the house of straw. When the house
  fell, the pig ran away.
• The second pig built his house of sticks. The
  house was easy to build also. When the wolf
  came, he blew down the house of sticks. When the
  house fell, the pig ran away with his brother.
• The third pig built his house of bricks. The
  house was harder to build and took more time.
  When the wolf came, he could not blow down the
  house of bricks. He was able to help his two
  brothers by having a home tat didnt fall. He
  also taught the wolf a lesson by boiling the pot
  of water for the wolf when he came down the
  chimney.
• The lesson that we can learn from this story is
  that you are able to help others when you do
  things the right way. The last pig did things
  the right way when he made his house out of
  bricks because the wolf couldnt blow it down.
  The pigs stayed inside and remained safe from the
  wolf.