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Stop and Jot Reading Response Notebook Pages

Four reading-response template sets — Stop & Jot, Respond, Thoughts?, and Tell Me 'Bout It — give students structured space to record connections, predictions, and reactions to any book.
Grades
Grades 3–6, Middle School, Elementary
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Updated May 31, 2023

Subject
ELA, Reading, Reading Comprehension, Strategies
Topic
Stop and Jot, Reading Response
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Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets
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What's inside this resource

If you are looking for an effective way to build engagement when students are responding to reading, look no more! This is a set of Stop and Jot Reading Response Notebook Pages that is perfect for conferring with students or having students share in book clubs. These are great for your elementary and middle school students.

What You Get:

This is a set of Stop and Jot Reading Response Notebook Pages that is accompanied by a range of titles. The titles included are:

-- Stop & Jot

-- Tell Me ‘Bout It

-- Respond

-- Thoughts?

Each title includes over 20 template options.

How To Use the Stop and Jot Reading Response Notebook Pages:

With these Stop and Jot Reading Response Notebook Pages, your students can ditch the sticky notes when responding to reading material. During independent reading or a whole class read-aloud, students will stop and jot about their reading. Students can complete one page per book or one page per chapter. These Reading Response Notebook Pages allow students to make connections with the text, make predictions, visualize, and ask questions.

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In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Record text connections while reading, using the 'I connect…' prompt.

  • Make and record predictions about the text using the 'I predict…' prompt.

  • Visualize story details in writing using the 'I picture…' prompt.

Teaching tips

  • Assign one template page per book or one page per chapter, since most pages include a blank for both fields.

  • Use the blank-prompt template variants (without pre-printed sentence starters) for stronger writers or open-ended responses, and the prompted variants for students who need scaffolding.

  • Print single pages for independent reading response, or use a page during small-group conferring or book-club discussion.

Skills covered

  • Making text connections — students record personal, textual, or world connections using the 'I connect…' prompt across all four template sets.

  • Predicting — students record predictions about plot or character using the 'I predict…' prompt.

  • Visualizing — students describe mental images formed while reading using the 'I picture…' prompt.

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Questions teachers ask about this resource

Do the four template sets (Stop & Jot, Respond, Thoughts?, Tell Me 'Bout It) use different prompts, or the same ones in new designs?

The same six response prompts — connect, predict, picture, enjoyed, wonder, surprised — repeat across all four sets; each set is a different page layout and title, letting the visual design rotate throughout the year.

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