Here's a very effective worksheet you can use in teaching literature to your students. It's a tool supported by the reader-response method.
You can start your literature session with this and then follow it up with a small group sharing, sharing to their classmates what they've written in their journal. Then, finally end it up with a big group sharing or reporting with you as the facilitator.
I personally find doing this exciting. Students are not only talking about the content of the story (which tells me that they've understood the story) but they're also relating this to their own personal views, opinions, and experiences -- not to mention the many words they would use in English just to share what they have in their journal.
In this way, the students are not only learning something meaningful from literature but are also honing their communication skills. The good news is the teacher is able to do this in a non-threatening way which means that the teacher is not putting the student on the spotlight.
Here it is! Enjoy.
Love lots!
Jake Anthony Jagos
SUSI 2009 Philippines
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