Coop Strip Paragraph

Post date: Nov 30, 2017 7:11:17 PM

Today’s staff meeting reminded me that I haven’t sent out a GLAD strategy in a long time. One thing I want to point out is that while GLAD strategies were originally created to serve ELL students, it is good for all students. Not only do ELL students benefit, even your gifted students are better off when you use these strategies in your class room. It is an engaging and visual way to teach ALL students. I find that, personally, it is a fun way to teach, too, so it is also good for the teacher.

So here is a GLAD strategy that you may want to use in your teaching sometime in the next couple of weeks.

Coop strip paragraph – for making a whole class model of a good paragraph or for having teams work together to write a paragraph
- Teacher Models: formula for evidence in analytical essays
  - And of Clay we are Created, by Isabel Allende
    - Black: setting of quote, lead-in/ context
    - Red: citation/evidence/quote: page number only, end with period.
    - Green: 1^st commentary: explain evidence in your own words, link to story,
    - Blue: global commentary/ insight – linked to thesis, move beyond story, what does it make you think of beyond the book?

- Example of team paragraph: formula for evidence in analytical essays (9^th grade LA). Team discusses and analyzes quotes. Then each person on the team writes one kind of sentence in the color pen. So the team makes an “evidence” paragraph for an essay
  - Lead-in: context / what is happening before quote in story
  - Quote/citation/evidence
  - Commentary: link to story
  - Global commentary – what does it make you think about beyond the book?

Even though this an example of coop strip strategy in a Language Arts classroom, this could be used in any class where students are using evidence to back up their claims (science, math, forensics, social studies, etc.

Please know that I am here to help you implement these strategies in your room whether it is for your ELL students or for a class that has no ELL students. Email me if you are interested in a one-on-one tutorial.