Reading and Writing for the Classroom and Beyond
Reading and Writing for the Classroom and Beyond
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The key idea I've come away with through my years of study is that English education empowers students with skills that they carry beyond the four walls of their classrooms.
Teachers in these classrooms can nurture students by providing them with mentor texts, contextualizing the type of writing they do in the classroom with real-world counterparts, and connecting the type of literature read and discussed to students' daily concerns and lives.
The units and tools I've created for my Master's classes have focused on creating these connections for students, and I implemented these units or pieces of the units in my own classroom.
Created for ENG507 Approaches to Writing, this infographic is a handy tool aimed at teachers.
In addition to utilizing the principles of visual design to deliver key information quickly and purposefully, it also summarizes the key ideas in Kelly Gallagher's Write Like This, which focuses on the importance of providing mentor texts for students to learn from, as well as grounding writing assignments in real-world skills and contexts.
Another project for ENG507 was creating a writing unit. I focused on a practical form of writing that I could implement in my middle and high school English classes: persuasive writing.
Following the advice in Gallagher's Write Like This, I connected the classroom task to a real-world context, letting students publish their persuasive "editorials" in a class newspaper that could be distributed to other students.
In creating this Pecha Kucha assignment for ENG540 Teaching Adolescent Literature, I had my students in mind. The bulk of my students were third-culture kids living in China, yet the literature being taught in the provided curriculum wasn't addressing this experience.
I used visuals and voice to present a lesson plan I created, which integrated a variety of skills students could take with them in the future: discussion, critical thinking, visual analysis, introspection, and personal writing.
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