How do you use a Jamboard Template for Reading?
Spice up your reading reading response activities, create anchor charts that save wall space, and increase class participation with reading Jamboards.
Imagine having your students actually excited about responding to a text. No more pulling teeth to get your students to participate. When you use Jamboard, students want to respond. Wishing you had more structure and were better planned for your small groups? Jamboard can do that too. Running out of wall space for all those anchor charts? Jamboard!
Ways to Use Reading Response Jamboards in Your Classroom
There are a lot of ways to use Jamboards during reading. Here are just a few ways I love using Jamboard templates in my classroom:
- Use a Jamboard after you've finished a read aloud to have students tell you what the lesson of the story was
- During your mini-lesson on Character Analysis, have students add a sticky note to show an example of the character's thoughts, feelings, actions, or what they said.
- After your mini-lesson on nonfiction lingo and bold words, have students independent read. On a class Jamboard, have students record a few of the lingo words or bold words from that text.
- Give each student a copy of the Main Ideas and Details Jamboard to complete after reading a Scholastic text.
- In your small group, make duplicate frames of the Character Map Jamboard so that each student can work on their own frame during the lesson. Easily see each student's progress as you click through each frame.
- Save your precious wall space by using the templates as anchor charts. Project them during reading time, when you really need them displayed. Don't have room for pocket charts to display reading partners? Put each name on a sticky note and group partners together. Easily change them up all year.
Using Jamboard to Talk about Nonfiction Texts
My students love reading nonfiction, really about anything. They love learning new facts and how things work in the world. It’s sometimes hard to get students to share their ideas without having a few students do a lot of the work and thinking.
To combat this, I like to project these nonfiction templates during my mini-lessons and have students stop and jot their ideas on a sticky note. It keeps them accountable and stretches their brain instead of getting away with not sharing during a “pair share.” Here are some of my favorite Jamboards to use along with my mini-lessons:
- All About ______ (Brain dump)
- Text Features
- New Words I Learned + Vocabulary (Great for talking about bold words and text lingo)
- Main Ideas and Details
- Timeline of ______ (great for biographies and historical events)
- Fact or Opinion?
- Compare/Contrast
Using Jamboard to Talk about Fictional Texts
There are a lot of ways to use Jamboards to discuss fictional texts. You can use these Jamboards for a full-group discussion, break students into groups and have them work together on one frame, or you can assign each student the whole Jamboard to do a “Brain Dump” on the topic. Here are some of my favorite templates that I like to use with my students:
- Text Evidence
- Character Analysis
- Story Elements
- Inferences
- Making Connections
- Making Predictions
- Author's Purpose
- Point of View
- Theme
Ready to engage your students and spice up your reader’s workshop with Jamboards? Click below!
I LOVE these Jamboard templates! I had the freebies and immediately went and purchased these templates because of how often I did Jamboard with my students.
Ashley, 4th and 5th Grade Teacher
This was a great way to get student interaction.
Sheila, 6th Grade Teacher
End of year review went very smooth with this to assist!
Tyara, 3rd Grade Teacher
This kept my Jamboard sessions organized, effective, and user-friendly! Thank you!
