Hi everyone, here are my top three picks from readwritethink.org:
1. Have students enact the text they are studying. For example, a possible text for teaching poetry could be “What’s in the Sack?”. For that lesson, students bring a sack to class containing a few items which they feel represent them. They then share about the items in groups before the teacher goes through the poem as a class.
2. Use Persuasion Map (Classroom Resources – Student Interactive – Persuasion Map) as a tool to help students organize their literature essay. The affordances of this tool are that it presents each component of an essay as a bite-sized task and shows how they are linked together by a visual map.
3. Each student chooses a quotation that he/she feels exemplifies the main theme of the text they are studying or is definitive of a particular character. As a group, they discuss their interpretations for the quotes then formulate questions around those quotes/interpretations for their classmates to answer.
Hi Shu Yan,
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of the Persuasion Map and how it is extremely user-friendly and contains a very basic but essential structure for essay writing.
However, if there is a need for collaborative work in the classroom, Popplet.com can be another useful site you may want to explore. It is more versatile but that will mean that students might be less focused on the task at hand. They will, on the other hand, have more freedom in choosing how they would like to structure their essay plans.
Jaslyn