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The Best for the Best Teacher Appreciation Week Blog Hop

May 5, 2014 By Ashley Schroeder

Hello friends! And WELCOME to The Best for the Best Teacher Appreciation Week blog hop! I have teamed up with over 100 of my sweet bloggy friends to bring you a blog hop AND A GIVEAWAY! (enter at the bottom of this post) showcasing our BEST! It’s the best of the best from our stores, and I’m so excited to blog about one of my favorite and best selling products today!
I don’t know about you, but I’m always looking for a new and engaging way to hold my kids accountable and to check comprehension during read to self, during read to someone, or even a way to hold them accountable for and to assess them on what they’ve read during small group work!  Well, enter my Reading Response Flip Flap Books that are my BEST SELLER!
There is a great variety of flip flap books to choose from in this simple yet useful set of reading response resources, and they are all pictured below!
There are gray scale as well as black and white versions of flip flap book resources to use for the following skills:
Sequencing with first, next, last
Story Elements
Main Ideas and Details
Sequencing the beginning, middle, and end
Making connections
Asking and answering questions
Retelling with somebody, wanted, to, but, so, then
Author’s Purpose
I’m going to share with you just a few quick examples of how I used these flip flap books in my classroom most recently this week! It’s that time of year where the kids are just craving something new and exciting, and this simple spin on a typical respond to reading activity were such a hit!  Their work was AWESOME, too!
Here are a few of my favorite go-tos in my classroom!

One way that I’ve also incorporated these respond to reading flip flap books in my routines is with my tutoring kiddo! Last week, we used a main idea and key detail flip flap book resource to respond to a non fiction text from Reading A-Z Resources!

During reading class this week, we also used the main idea and key detail flip flap book to respond to reading in our Reading Wonders reading workshop book! We usually do a simple comprehension check in our reading journals after we read our shared read story of the week to practice writing about reading as well as for me to assess their understanding of what was read! However, this week, we busted out a reading response flip flap book instead to respond to reading to record the main idea and details of the expository text we read!

The students folded their flip flap resources in half and cut the top flaps open to be able to record their main idea and details of what they read. There is a spot on the back of the flip flap book for their name, the title of the text, and directions for making the book.

I’ve included several pictures below of the kiddos in action with their reading response flip flap books!

I had the students record their answer on the inside part of each flap and draw a matching illustration for the answers on the right side of the flap.

Each student recorded and illustrated the main idea under the first flap.  Then, they recorded and illustrated the 3 corresponding and supporting details under the remaining three flaps using text evidence from the selection that they’ve read.

 

These reading response flip flap books have been such an easy yet SUPER effective go-to in my classroom this year.  Plus, there is such a variety of skills to practice and/or assess while using them!
If these reading response books sound like something you could use in your classroom, you can take a closer look at them in my store {HERE} or by clicking the image below!
But that’s not all!  ENTER THE GIVEAWAY BELOW BEFORE YOU HOP ON . . . and THEN  , hop on over to Performing in Fifth Grade as the Best for the Best Blog Hop continues! 🙂
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Comments

  1. 1

    C Hath says

    May 8, 2014 at 3:20 am

    I just bought this in the sale today!! Thank you so much for all of your hard work Ashley!!!

    Mrs. 3rd Grade 

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