Literary Report Card in reading improvement

READING Strategy fi Literary Report Card

Reading component  Comprehension
Related Standard(s) of Learning

Overview of the strategy
Literary report cards (Johnson & Louis, 1987) help students analyze characters in narrative stories.
Students assign grades to characters based on a variety of criteria on which the teacher has initially decided.

Strategy procedure
1.  Have students create a literary report card that focuses on key character traits. (See the example below for the
character Frog in Frog and Toad All Year by Arnold Lobel. The report card can be designed to look like a real
report card.)
2.  After reading a narrative text, students assign grades to characters.
3.  Students must cite an example from the story when assigning a grade