Capture comprehension in writing

Informative Reading Responses

Readers recall facts learned from informational text.

Readers recall details about a specific story element.

Track the changing setting. | Template

Readers retell a section of informational text.

Students practice independently.

Readers retell only the most important details of a whole informational text.

Transfer section labels in order. Stretch them into oral, pictorial, or written sentences to create a whole-text retell. (Make another copy of the second page if the text has more than four sections/labels.)

PICTORIAL-writing Example | Template

Explain comparative thinking in writing.

Comparative sentences | Grades K-2

Narrative Reading Responses

Retell details in order.

Use the Story Element Strips for students to point to each story element as they orally retell a text.

Storyboard | Google Slide

Persuasive Reading Responses

Communicate inferences in what-and-why persuasive responses.

Young readers write out their thinking in pictures, words, and sentences.

Pictorial-writing & Label-writing templates

Photocopy the bookmark sheets back to back and cut them individually. Students reference the FRONT side when they are writing in pictures and labels and the BACK side when writing in words and sentences. What & 3 Whys bookmark | What, Why, & How bookmark

Express inferences within all developmental stages.

Donwload developmental stages PK-2 writing templates.

Support predictions with textual evidence.

Infer character traits.

Students could circle the grade-appropriate character trait
and provide text evidence in pictures and labels.
Kindergarten | Grade 1 | Grade 2