Correct Response: C. At the secondary level, formal literary response involves developing a thesis and providing evidence from the text to support the thesis. To help sixth graders learn how to construct an effective literary response to a text, the teacher should provide opportunities, such as prompted writing in response journals, to develop a thesis related to a text (e.g., identifying a main idea or theme of the text), and then to support the thesis by citing evidence from the text. Options A, B, and D are incorrect because these prompts do not target literary response skills. Option A emphasizes vocabulary development, while Options B and D focus students on literal comprehension skills only—that is, identifying factual information explicitly stated in the text.
