Digital Reading Response Journal
Oh, I love to read with my students 🙌🏻
There is nothing better than choosing a great-quality picture book and sharing this with a group of young learners. I also love to follow on from that reading with a range of activities aimed at exploring the text deeper - retelling, innovating on, exploring structures and making connections, to name a few. In the past I would default to creating worksheets for this type of reading response activity, but the deeper I dive into the incredible world of Apple Education - the more I want to encourage my students to use a variety of creative ways to show their understanding.
Think of retelling a story with a movie, or a Line Draw animation to show a personal connection. Even the simple act of adding the student's voice to a photo or work sample allows educators to get a much better understanding of what our students know. This is even more true for our young learners, or our struggling learners, who may be still learning to write.
For a workshop I recently ran with some amazing teachers, I put together this 'Book Study' digital journal in Pages. These digital journals are really quite simple to put together, and by using Pages, it can be exported as an ePub when completed to view and interact with in Apple Books, or other ePub readers.
The video below walks you through what the completed Book Study Journal might look like. This was something I put together to show teachers at this recent workshop.
I have added a copy of the journal to this post so you can download and use it in your own classroom. Once opened in pages, tap EDIT in the top right-hand corner to use the journal. If you need further information about some of the reading response activities, you can find information about Clips, Line Draw animations and Screen Recording by searching the Apple Education Community.
You can also edit this journal to suit your student's needs 🙌🏻 (although I would appreciate it not being re-shared as your own work). At the moment, the images and text are locked (except the placeholders (which are the grey boxes allowing students to add media), however, you can tap on anything and then tap unlock to edit. You can also edit the audio buttons by tapping on the button and then tapping edit and recording your own voice.
In an upcoming post, I will be sharing how to make your own digital journal from scratch 🫶🏻
Hope you can use this 🙌🏻
