Respond to a Poem About a City at Night

For the any book sheets, have your child mark pages with sticky notes as they fill in page one, so the evidence is easy to find. For the sheets with a story or poem, read it together first, then have your child answer the questions and write the response.

Read a made-up poem about a city at night, answer 3 mood questions and write how it makes you feel. A response tells what you think. The mood is the feeling a poem gives. A stanza is a group of lines. The directions on the page read: Read the Example and the poem. Then, turn the page and answer the questions. On page 2: In Part A, circle the letter of the best answer to each of the 3 questions. Then, in Part B, write your response on the 4 lines. The answer key covers the questions on page 2.

Yes, both. We made it for 4th Grade writing topics, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with reading response. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

A reading response tells what a reader thinks about a story, poem or book and backs it up with a detail from the text. W.4.9.A asks 4th graders to draw evidence from literature to support their writing, such as a character's choice, a poem's mood or a clue for a prediction.

A topic is what a story is about, like friendship. A theme is the message about it, like true friends tell you the truth. Theme With Text Evidence asks for the theme as a sentence plus two pieces of evidence (RL.4.2).

Have your child state the idea first, then find the exact part of the text that proves it and explain how. The lost wallet story numbers its paragraphs, so one question asks which paragraph shows Leo giving the wallet back, and the poem response asks for the number of the line that sets the feeling.

The four sheets with a made-up story or poem have an answer key with the multiple choice answers and a sample response. The six sheets for any book have no key, since answers depend on the book; check that every idea is backed by evidence from the text.