15 ways to use Book Creator for Reading Responses

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Ways to use Book Creator for Reading Responses

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Daily Journal

Character Profile

Interview Questions

Comic Retell

Author Poem

Setting Description

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Book Selfies

Picture Collage

Question Collection

Author Perspectives

Biography Spotlight

Wordle Reflection

Reading Portfolio

Monthly Spotlight

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Introduction

Join me as we dive into ways to create reading responses with Book Creator!

Reading responses can take many forms and Book Creator gives you the space to set up students for success.

This book includes 15 ways to use Book Creator for reading responses. You can tailor these ideas to both collaborative and independent student products and scale each one to make sure it meets the needs of your students.

A few tips

Create models for your students so they understand the expectations for the reading responses you introduce to your group

Design tasks that can be differentiated for your group of students so everyone has a way to respond to what they have read

Reading responses can also include reflections on text students have listened to in the form of read alouds, audio recordings, or podcasts

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Daily Journal

Students can use Book Creator to capture reading every day in a journal format.

As students read each day they can use Book Creator to capture their thoughts, ideas and inspirations.

A daily reading journal gives students a space to respond to reading using teacher prompts or free writing.

A daily journal can include a few key features within each day’s entry. You might ask students to include:

Book title
Date
Pages read

Author name
Comfort level
Reading goal

Each day students can add a new page to their ebook to chronicle their reading over the course of the school year. The prompts you give students may change, just like your expectations for their reading responses will evolve over the course of the school year.

A classroom scenario

When students join your Book Creator library you can easily check in on the progress of readers in your classroom each day.

As you take a look at each student's journal you may come across information to help you guide and grow readers throughout the school year!

This picture shows an example of a reading journal page.

It includes space for students to draw a picture inspired by their book.

In this example of a reading journal page, a student can include an audio button that plays a recording of their voice.

Purple book with text and an audio hotspot

Character Profile

Feature a favorite character using quotes, pictures and illustrations.

When readers of any age jump into a new book there are characters that stir emotions. Students can profile a favorite character from an independent reading book or class read aloud using quotes, pictures and illustrations.

A character profile could be one page in a collaborative class book or multiple pages in an individual book.
You might ask students to include:

Character name
Illustration of the character
Images of where they live
Favorite pieces of dialogue
A question they want to ask
Traits that describe the character

Students can profile one character to chart the way they change over the course of a novel or choose one favorite character from a picture book. Students might combine different elements on their page including a video where they talk about a problem their character faced in the book they read.

A classroom scenario

Students can profile one character to chart the way they change over the course of a novel or choose one favorite character from a picture book.

Students might combine different elements on their page including a video where they talk about a problem their character faced in the book they read.

This picture shows an example of a character profile.

It includes an image of the setting of a book showing where the character lives.

Green book with text and a picture of a tree

In this example, a list of character traits fills the page along with colors related to the character’s personality.

A list of character traits for the character George, from 'Of Mice and Men'

Interview Questions

Respond to a current events article by writing interview questions inspired by an event.

A classroom scenario

A set of interview questions can include opportunities for students to think about missing information from an article. You might include questions about:

Where an event took place…
Who was present at a particular moment…
How many people, animals or things were impacted…
What could happen next…
How this event impacts their everyday life…
What they still need to figure out…

Similar to a reading journal that students update regularly, you might ask students to choose one article a week over the course of the school year.

They can write a series of questions they would like to pose to someone who experienced an event or has more knowledge about a topic.

As your students capture interview questions as a reading response, think of an authentic audience for their writing.

You might share a link to their book on social media and tag a news organization that is reporting on the story or who wrote the article that students read.

This picture shows an example of a cover of a book. It might include one page created by each student in response to the same news article.

A turquoise book with a speech bubble on it

In this example of a page of interview questions, a student can include a picture of where an event took place.

Comic Retell

Students can use Book Creator’s comic features to retell a scene from a story.

Retelling a story is an important skill and gives students a way to share what they have read while processing the events of a story. A retell using comic book features helps students focus on sequence, setting, characters and dialogue.

A comic retell can include various story elements to share what happened during a story. You might ask students to include details like:

Setting
Temporal words
Characters

Dialogue
Captions
Action words

There are lots of ways students can retell a story using the style of a comic book. Students might contribute one page about a particular scene to a group ebook, or they might use multiple pages to retell a traditional story using comic book features.

A classroom scenario