Please include a detailed description of the text. Take into consideration that your colleagues might not be familiar with the text that you have chosen. A detailed description will include everything necessary for your classmates to gain an understanding of the text without reading it. Your job is to introduce the text in a complete way so that it is possible for others to decide when, where, and how this text might be appropriate.
This Text contains many useful resources for teaching writing. There are sample lessons which include step by step instructions on how to conduct the lesson plans. Also, each lesson plan includes a section where there is 1-2 paragraphs on how to modify the lesson if/when there are students with special needs in the classroom. A long with that, there is more to this book than lesson plans. Before every lesson plan there is a good portion of writing where the author speaks on particular strategies in teaching English. It is not a lesson plan book. While it does include lesson plans there is much more to it than that.
Please explain why you chose this text. What was your rationale? How does your understanding of this text influence your thinking about your teaching.
I chose this text because I saw "what works for special-needs learners" on the cover and it caught my attention. As educators it is highly likely that there will be a special needs student in ones classroom. So, I feel like as teachers we should do our best to prepare for them. Along with that this book was published in 2015 which is something I was looking for in a text for this presentation. Not so much the year, but I wanted something that was not outdated. The book I used for my last presentation was 12 years old so I wanted something more relevant.
Please include some teaching ideas. How do you envision employing this text in a secondary English language arts classroom? Provide at least 3 specific ideas for what is possible with this text.
The 1st way I would use this in the classroom is by using an Assessment. I would quiz students on the readings we are currently covering in class. This would be something I do maybe once a month or every two weeks. This would help me gauge students level of reading. Also, it would help me distinguish the low level students from the high level students. This would be perfect to maybe make small groups with those struggling to try and help them grasp the text.
The Second way I would incorporate this text is by using a lesson plan from the book called "Main Idea Sketch". How this works is I would choose a short story and I would read a passage from it. Then, I would draw a sketch of what I perceived the main idea to be. Then I would read another passage and have the students do what I did and draw a sketch. I would have them explain their reasoning. This is another great way to learn which students are skilled at comprehension and who is struggling.
The third lesson I would use is one on inference. For this lesson I would write a sentence on the board. For example, "Everyone stopped when the referee blew the whistle". Then, I would ask questions like
Please consider some challenges to using strategies from this text. What are the potential issues that may arise from using these strategies? Predict students’ responses. How will you address these challenges?
A challenge I found is that the book is somewhat complex. Not exactly the lesson plans, but the information the authors present. Along with that, this book has short lesson plans. Not all, but most lessons are about 15 minutes. Lastly, most lessons are for middle school as you can tell. If one does modify them they can most certainly be used for High School.
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This Text contains many useful resources for teaching writing. There are sample lessons which include step by step instructions on how to conduct the lesson plans. Also, each lesson plan includes a section where there is 1-2 paragraphs on how to modify the lesson if/when there are students with special needs in the classroom. A long with that, there is more to this book than lesson plans. Before every lesson plan there is a good portion of writing where the author speaks on particular strategies in teaching English. It is not a lesson plan book. While it does include lesson plans there is much more to it than that.
Please explain why you chose this text. What was your rationale? How does your understanding of this text influence your thinking about your teaching.
I chose this text because I saw "what works for special-needs learners" on the cover and it caught my attention. As educators it is highly likely that there will be a special needs student in ones classroom. So, I feel like as teachers we should do our best to prepare for them. Along with that this book was published in 2015 which is something I was looking for in a text for this presentation. Not so much the year, but I wanted something that was not outdated. The book I used for my last presentation was 12 years old so I wanted something more relevant.
Please include some teaching ideas. How do you envision employing this text in a secondary English language arts classroom? Provide at least 3 specific ideas for what is possible with this text.
The 1st way I would use this in the classroom is by using an Assessment. I would quiz students on the readings we are currently covering in class. This would be something I do maybe once a month or every two weeks. This would help me gauge students level of reading. Also, it would help me distinguish the low level students from the high level students. This would be perfect to maybe make small groups with those struggling to try and help them grasp the text.
The Second way I would incorporate this text is by using a lesson plan from the book called "Main Idea Sketch". How this works is I would choose a short story and I would read a passage from it. Then, I would draw a sketch of what I perceived the main idea to be. Then I would read another passage and have the students do what I did and draw a sketch. I would have them explain their reasoning. This is another great way to learn which students are skilled at comprehension and who is struggling.
The third lesson I would use is one on inference. For this lesson I would write a sentence on the board. For example, "Everyone stopped when the referee blew the whistle". Then, I would ask questions like
- Where do you think this is taking place
- When do you think this is happening?
- Who do you think “Everyone” is referring too
Please consider some challenges to using strategies from this text. What are the potential issues that may arise from using these strategies? Predict students’ responses. How will you address these challenges?
A challenge I found is that the book is somewhat complex. Not exactly the lesson plans, but the information the authors present. Along with that, this book has short lesson plans. Not all, but most lessons are about 15 minutes. Lastly, most lessons are for middle school as you can tell. If one does modify them they can most certainly be used for High School.
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