Absolutely magnificent Faith! The skill and intentionality of the scaffolding makes these complex tasks accessible for all students but they are still the ones doing the thinking. For the graphic organizer pre work, did you provide a word bank or cheat sheet for figurative language and mood words ?
Thank you Sarah! Yes, students had a colored unit cheat sheet for both mood and figurative language that they used throughout to support their understanding. I’m still fighting the good fight with pushing kids to use mood words other than “happy” and “sad” to expand their vocab!
Absolutely magnificent Faith! The skill and intentionality of the scaffolding makes these complex tasks accessible for all students but they are still the ones doing the thinking. For the graphic organizer pre work, did you provide a word bank or cheat sheet for figurative language and mood words ?
Thank you Sarah! Yes, students had a colored unit cheat sheet for both mood and figurative language that they used throughout to support their understanding. I’m still fighting the good fight with pushing kids to use mood words other than “happy” and “sad” to expand their vocab!
This looks awesome, thank you for sharing this. I’m going back into a year 9 English class and this has given me ideas for next year.