Depth and Complexity Critical Thinking Literary Response Booklet
5.0 (668 reviews)Incorporate Depth and Complexity into your next novel study! Take your students’ learning to new “depths” with this Critical Thinking Literary Response Booklet. This open-ended resource can be used with any piece of literature in a variety of grades (4-8+). This kit comes with everything you need t
- Grade
- Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
- Pages
- 55
- Answer key
- N/A
- Teaching duration
- Yearlong Resource
- Digital download
Description
Incorporate Depth and Complexity into your next novel study!
Take your students’ learning to new “depths” with this Critical Thinking Literary Response Booklet. This open-ended resource can be used with any piece of literature in a variety of grades (4-8+). This kit comes with everything you need to provide your students with a thought-provoking and engaging alternative to traditional book reports.
Totally reformatted to fit on letter-size (8.5 x 11 inches) paper!!!
Included in this resource:
• 11-page Literary Response Booklet
• Teaching notes and tips for each page of the Booklet
• 11 Critical Thinking Literary Reference Cards
• Detailed instructions and diagrams for assembling the Booklet
➡FREE Depth and Complexity Posters
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Reviews
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Not appropriate for beginning of the year
This is very hard for me to implement until almost the third quarter. Week one has decimals, and my fourth graders don't learn about decimals until the third quarter. It also jumps into division and bigger multiplication early. I wish it had a few weeks of third-grade review.
Affixes Resource Pack
This was not exactly what I was looking for for a supplemental resource for my 5th grade class.
Not a "spiral" review
I wanted to like this so much because it was exactly what I wanted. But, Week 1 already starts talking about coordinate grids and volume, standards that aren't covered until later on in the school year. I wish it was organized by the order the standards are taught throughout the school year instead of introducing end-of-year concepts in the first few weeks.
Great Activities, but Limited Direct Instruction
This resource is advertised as a week-long unit, but in practice it functions more like one day of direct instruction followed by several activity days. There is only one PowerPoint for teaching, with the remaining materials focused on practice.
I expected a more balanced structure with instruction and assessment spread across multiple days. For example, I was able to use the PowerPoint and the second day’s worksheet within a single class period, and the “scoot” activity worked well for a separate day. However, I’m unsure how I’ll incorporate the remaining sketch notes, which might have been more effective if directly integrated into the initial instruction.
One major area for improvement is alignment between instruction and assessment. The assessments and task cards include concepts like “to be” verbs and auxiliary verbs, but these are not introduced or modeled in the PowerPoint. This created confusion for my students and could easily be developed into an additional day of instruction.
Overall, the materials are well-designed and engaging, but the unit would benefit from more comprehensive instruction and clearer alignment between teaching and assessment.
This starts off Running
I thought the assessments would get progressively harder but I do not feel I could start these assessments with my students week 1. I may be able to start them mid year
Questions & Answers (18)
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Answer key included?
Could this be assembled in a duotang?
Absolutely! You might want to do a test run with the hole punches before you do a mass print, but I don't think you'll have any trouble.
Do you, or any teachers who have used this have an exemplar you could share? I think that would be a HUGE help to my students as we work through this!
Unfortunately, we do not. However, there are detailed teaching notes and tips included.
I love this resource, and I would love to make pages into edibale PFDs (for hybrid teaching), but the document is secure. Is there anyway I could have access so I can make these into edible documents for students at home? Thank you so much!
Unfortunately, we are unable to provide an editable version of this resource because it was created using Adobe Illustrator and InDesign. Also, we are prohibited from providing editable versions of resources that contain commercial graphics.
Where are the pages to print?
Hi Kayla, The student pages begin on page 34 of the pdf.
Hi!
I was wondering whether there was an A4 version of this booklet. I have purchased this already but would love to be able to utilise the tabs.
Regards,
Esther
Hi Esther! It only comes in 8.5x11, unfortunately.
Good evening,
Would you happen to have this resource in a digital format that could be used/shared through Google and Google classroom? We are 1:1 and would love to use this resource digitally.
Hello! Unfortunately, I don’t have a digital version at this time.
On page 12 of the PDF, you used "right" when I think you meant "write". You might want to fix that.
Thank you, Theresa! I just corrected the error. I appreciate you taking the time to let me know.
Hi,
I teach secondary world language, and would love to use some of your materials, especially this Critical Thinking Booklet because of it's multi level application. I love the format, but would need to translate the doc into Spanish, so I am wondering if it is editable? If not, I will cross my fingers that someday you can offer these wonderful resources in other languages! Thanks for your time? Celeste
Hi Celeste! Unfortunately, I do not have an editable version. I would like to offer Spanish versions someday and hope to find a reliable translator to do this. Thank you for your interest.
I would love to have both the depth and complexity task cards and response booklet for general non fiction articles and books. Please create these products, I'm sure they will be a success!
Hello! Thank you so much for the suggestion. I will definitely keep it in mind for a future projects.
