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What might a complete Grammarlogues
lesson look like?
(We'll use pronouns as our example.)
DAY 1: The teacher
opens the class with the Pronouns
Teaching Slide. Students write down
the contents of the slide and the teacher facilitates
a brief dialogue around pronouns. The literary examples model
pronoun usage and expose your students on a daily basis to great pieces of literature.
(By peeling back the layers of complexity in a given literary example, each slide can accommodate an
introductory explanation or an advanced investigation of the grammar concept.)
DAY 2: The teacher
opens the class with the Pronouns
Practice Slide of Grammarlogues.
As part of their homework, students are asked to notice
the role pronouns play--or fail to play--in tonight's
reading assignment.
DAY 3: The "grammarlogue"
for the day is a dialogue around what students
uncovered around pronouns during their homework. For
instance, were they most confused where pronouns were
most prevalent? As part of tonight's homework, students
are assigned an online pronoun practice set. (The teacher
can choose the practice set's level of difficulty.)
DAY 4: The "grammarlogue"
for the day is a dialogue around the statistics
emailed to the teacher: Which question did the students
miss most frequently? Why? Have the few students who got the question right come to the front and teach the class. This will help to create an atmosphere where students see their peers as informational resources.
Complement the students' teaching by inquiring further into the example: Why, for instance, did the author craft his/her sentence
in such a manner? What effect(s) did it create? Consider having the students model the author's style in tonight's writing assignment.
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