With Halloween here, my mind is on kids’ natural response to stories. We’ve (unfortunately) gotten good at forcing our kids to “respond” to books in certain ways:
- Having them take a test/quiz over a book, or otherwise answer questions
- Making them write a book report
- Making them do a particular kind of project over a book
Natural response is different. Here are a couple examples of a child’s natural response to a book:
Read On, Sweet Child 