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Apr 8, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Articulating rich, nuanced themes / main ideas is almost always the goal line in English class, right? What does this text MEAN?
But it's challenging for Ss.
A big reason for this is that we often wait until the end of the text to start honing in on themes. (1/)
I've been experimenting in a current unit with encouraging students to use strategies to articulate "hypothesis themes" early on + throughout their reading. (2/)
Mar 17, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
It's crucial for writers to have the opportunity to revise after receiving feedback. But, I hate assessing revisions more than anything. (1/)
Today, I tried something new, and this is my plan forevermore: I conferred with each writer +asked them to show me where they made revisions. I asked:
- What did you think when you read my feedback?
- What were you thinking as you revised?
- What were your main revision goals?
Jan 29, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Would you like your students to use interesting figurative language in their writing? Or do your students study analogies, and you need a way for them to apply that understanding? Check out this pattern in two potential sentence studies: (A Thread)
"Beyonce is to Millenials what Christianity was to our grandparents; there's a societal expectation that you will be involved + occasionally perform conspicuous acts of piety" from theringer.com/music/2018/4/2…
