English 8 students did some more work with the article of the week, looking at the context clues for “refraining.” We also completed “Thank You, Ma’am,” going through the first review of effective readers’ skills. English I Honors...
English 8 students made the shift from a think-aloud to the “Same Something” protocol — in other words, the kids began implementing effective readers’ skills. We’re forming the foundational techniques for tackling all the texts we will...
English 8 students began looking at the basic skills that will inform everything we read this year: effective readers’ skills. We started with the AOW, their first: We finished with a Think Aloud for “Thank You, Ma’am,” a story by Langston...
Effective readers do a lot of things without even thinking about it. It’s as if their brains are divided: half the brain engaged with reading; the other half is monitoring comprehension, connecting to prior knowledge, commenting on the text, making predictions....
English I Honors looked at Elizabeth Bishop’s masterpiece “One Art.” The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost...
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