Writing a Response to Professional Reading

 READER RESPONSE TO PROFESSIONAL WRITING

Writing a response to professional reading is not about summarizing or reporting about what we read.   It is about responding, sharing our thoughts, ideas, beliefs, our connections to the text.   With professional reading for teaching, we need to respond with how what we read shapes us as a teacher, how it provides us with ideas, how it challenges our thinking.

For a rich blog response to reading see Reader Response to Nancy Atwell article.