I'm making separate posts for the two books because I find it easier to navigate others' posts when they are separated and I know what I'm looking for.
So Gallagher has some great things to say about reading a novel as a class. His points about building scaffolding and easing into an intimidating work are straightforward (and remember, every book is intimidating to a 15 year old who hates to read). I completely agree with having specific reasons that you're teaching a certain book so you can always answer, "When are we ever going to use this?" I will probably use his framing strategies to introduce individual lessons. I'd like to add one for the online forum, stolen from Dr. Nugent, MCL professor here at Missouri State: Have each student write a keyword from the text on the board (character names, places, items, plot, etc.), with no repeats. Go around the classroom and have each student explain his/her word, making sure to call out the words in chronological order so the summary makes sense. Usually this produces a really good summary, and students love to write on the board.
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katie, just out of curiostiy, were you a fifteen year old that hated to read? I would assume not. You seem too intelligent. Just thought I'd ask. I like the summary activity also. It would be a great way to get students to open up. Movement is good in the classroom. It gets the brain circulating. We need to get them on their feet every 20-30 minutes, if possible, to do this. Great concept I learned from a teacher, and I'm going to use it.
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