Analyse The Importance Of Responding In Children

Summary: This chapter discusses the concept of responding and how this can affect a child's ability to learn and grow. Responding is a way for the child to reflect on certain parts of reading, writing, or listening in different forms such as text, fiction, poetry, drama, or nonfiction. Responding is critical to help students understand that their response is what will help them construct a meaning to what they are reading, writing, or listening to. There are two different forms of responses. Children can respond personally or creatively. A personal response is normally orally or written and a creative response is expressed through different activities such as art, music, drama, or dance. Responses do not always have to be verbal they can be nonverbal as well. The author discusses how important it is for the teacher to make the environment once which children feel comfortable with responding. The author discusses how the teacher should make sure every response is accepted and students are given the opportunity to respond in a way that makes sense to
The author talks in great detail about the different kinds of journal. For example, diaries, response journals, dialogue journals, double-entry journals, interactive journals or notebooks, and learning logs. Each of these journals offer a different way for a child to respond. The chapter explains how to choose what journal to use. There are different reasons to use a journal and the author encourages teacher to know why they are having children keep a journal. Are they having them keep a journal to reflect personal thoughts, to keep a personal record, to respond to literature, to carry on a dialogue with other students, or to summarize what they have learned? The author then gives a great chart, which explains exactly when each journal should be used and the features the journal should have for the