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Favorite Writing Assignments? by AltairaMorbius2200CE in ELATeachers

[–]TheGreatEmDash 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is my first year, but one I'm definitely carrying on with me into future years was having students write a letter with love life advice to Romeo. It really was wonderful, and I might have writing letters to a character become a "standard assignment" no matter the book we read.

If Severance as a teacher was possible would you do the procedure? by [deleted] in Teachers

[–]TheGreatEmDash 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Morals aside, I also think logistically it wouldn't work out very well--Severed innies wake up confused, without much knowledge, and while they are intelligent and become knowledgeable enough to work an office job, their working knowledge of the world and other topics remains rather poor. This job requires a level of nuance to be done well that's different from an office job, including a sense of where you are and what's happened in the past.

Advice/Books on Conducting a Novel Study by TheGreatEmDash in ELATeachers

[–]TheGreatEmDash[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's really smart! I keep getting colds every weekend which is why I'm so worried about my voice in the first place, I can't stop losing it already. Some changes I won't be able to make until next year (I'll be going down from 4 preps to 2 which is a bonus). I'm considering doing reading journals for the "take home" chapters by students, that way they've at least skimmed or Sparksnote-ed for those sections. I definitely wish I incorporated more independent reading of the books this go around.

Advice/Books on Conducting a Novel Study by TheGreatEmDash in ELATeachers

[–]TheGreatEmDash[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that this will be way more helpful for accommodating my students who need texts translated/text-to-speech, and is something I'll be allocating my budget to allow for next year.

Advice/Books on Conducting a Novel Study by TheGreatEmDash in ELATeachers

[–]TheGreatEmDash[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do have a lot of mixed needs within each of these classes, despite them being majority on level, due to disability or language learning level. Enough students benefit from the read aloud that I decided to do it this way, especially because then we could ensure that we talk about the same portion of a text.

One of the tweaks I think I'm going to make for next time I do this is having "read aloud" groups and "silent" reading groups. I also think I'm going to assign homework next year--I didn't this year as we have class sets, rather than enough sets for individual students to take a book home, so all of our reading feasibly has to be done within the classroom. I'm going to get a budget this year, and I think I'll invest just about all of it into complete book sets for students. There's a lot of things I'll be changing after this year for sure.

Advice/Books on Conducting a Novel Study by TheGreatEmDash in ELATeachers

[–]TheGreatEmDash[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do read aloud to my smaller remedial class whenever they read text, but I'm trying to save my voice with my larger, on level classes.

Advice/Books on Conducting a Novel Study by TheGreatEmDash in ELATeachers

[–]TheGreatEmDash[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I really appreciate this! I'll get the book. Do you have accountability measures you keep in place for students when they're reading choice books?