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Reading Response Template - Personal Review

Updated: 01 Jun 2023

Write a personal review of a piece of text with this one-page template.

Editable: Google Slides
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 1 Page
Grades: 3 - 6

Curriculum

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.2

Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.2

Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.2

Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.2

Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.

teaching resource

Reading Response Template - Personal Review

Updated: 01 Jun 2023

Write a personal review of a piece of text with this one-page template.

Editable: Google Slides
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 1 Page
Grades: 3 - 6

Write a personal review of a piece of text with this one-page template.

A personal review is when a reader shares their opinion about a text they have read. It allows the students to connect with the text regarding what they did and did not like and their connections with it.

Use this resource with your students during or after reading a piece of text independently.

It works well in any novel study or book club setting.

Use the drop-down menu to choose between the PDF or Interactive Google Slide version.

For the complete Reading Response Journal, click below.

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Reading Response Templates - Complete Journal

A reading response journal for students to use to engage with text in meaningful and purposeful ways.

Curriculum

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.2

Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.2

Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.2

Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.2

Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.

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Anonymous · 4 years ago

i love this
- Anonymous · 4 years ago
  
  Ok thanks
- Natalie · 4 years ago
  
  Thank you Lily for your feedback! We are thrilled that you like it. We have more reading response templates on the way, so be sure and be on the lookout for them!