Responsible and Responsive Readers

Responsible and Responsive Readers

1. Responsible Readers Support Their Claim

   • A responsible reader questions the text, find answers to support claims from the author or their own
   • Look for evidence in the text to support their claims.
   • Are willing to change or defend their claim with evidence from the text.
   • Can use both the information they bring to the text and what the text has brought to them

2. Responsive Readers Explores the Text

   • Reads with curiosity by thinking what will happen next.
   • Makes connections to personal experiences, emotions and the text itself (also out side) .
   • Makes observations about what the text is saying and why.
   • Reacts to the text by asking questions.
   • A responsive reader explores the text, looking for new ideas, information and evidence.

3. Responsible Readers Ask the " Three Big Questions"

   • By asking the "3 Big Questions" a responsible reader is able to determine fact from fiction, is the text able to support their claim and see a different perspective
   • How has it changed my thinking?
   • What did the author think I knew?
   • What surprised me?

4. Responsive Readers Respond to the text.

   • Make the text matter..
   • Let the text inspire them to do or learn more.
   • Respond to the words on the page and their own thoughts
   • By responding to the text a reader can awaken emotions, ideas and be inspired to go beyond the classroom, book and world.
   • Let the text affect them both emotionally and intellectually.

5. Good Readers Combine

   • A good reader is a combination of responsible and responsive. Both need to ask questions, respond to challenges and grow their understanding.
   • Allow the text to affect them.
   • Look for new perspectives.
   • Have conversations.

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