What is the different between Narration and reading response question?

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  • January 4, 2014 at 9:11 pm
    Carmen
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    To my understanding, narration is like summery of what you have read, reading response question is asking questions related to the story, am I right?  

     

     

    January 4, 2014 at 10:09 pm
    nebby
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    A narration is generally open ended. The student tells what they know rather than the teacher asking for specific bits of info that they deem important. Narration can have some direction though like asking “tell me what you know about this character.”

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    January 4, 2014 at 11:03 pm
    Sonya Shafer
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    This is a great question, Carmen. I wasn’t familiar with that term “reading response question,” so I did an Internet search and read some examples. Here are my thoughts.

    Narration is, in Charlotte’s words, performing “the act of knowing.” In other words, it is a tool to help the reader cement in her own mind all that she just read. Now, as she reads and narrates, her mind will be interacting with the material and forming opinions and contrasts and other things. And we want to encourage those ideas to be shared as well. But the main goal of narration is to know what you read.

    The reading response question examples that I found in my search seemed to be mostly asking for opinions or a particular skill to be performed in response to what was read, rather than first focusing on remembering what was read. Does that make sense? Some of the RR questions looked similar to a narration question, but the focus seemed to skip over the “cementing what was read” part and go right to the personal response part (which could explain why they are called “response” questions, I guess). 

    We do want our students to form opinions and perform comparisons and contrasts and pull out character traits and be able to summarize the plot timeline and such, but we need to make sure we don’t skip the “cementing what was read” part. 

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