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Using Social Media to Create Engaging Reading Response Activities

June 4, 2020 Elizabeth Taylor
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I am always looking for ways to engage my learners with post-reading or reading response activities. I have students write literary analysis paragraphs and essays as a response to reading, and there is most certainly a place for this activity in any ELA classroom. But, with distance learning I found it ever more difficult to truly engage my students in that task. I searched for ways to get my students reflecting on their reading; analyzing the texts, citing textual evidence, and creating commentary about that text. Essentially, I wanted the elements of a good literary analysis packaged in an engaging activity. So, I turned to social media!

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In Literary Analysis, Reading Instruction Tags Reading Response Activities, Responding to Reading, Literary Analysis, Fun literary analysis activities, reading activities, post-reading activities, writing about reading
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