This bundle/file contains various ways to facilitate your students' new thinking around "Read Like a Writer" -- the first step to rhetorical analysis writing. This material will help students shift their mindset from "Read Like a Reader" to analytically read for writers' moves in rhetoric.

Includes a mix of teaching strategies:

• Group
• Jigsaw
• Independent reading
• digital notebook with drag-and-drop reading annotation tool
• extended writing space
• video mini lesson from my YouTube Channel on "Read Like a Writer" and rhetoric

What's inside this product?

• a Google Form Check for Understanding for the Video Mini Lessons

• Google Slides to facilitate the lesson

• linked articles (including Bunn's Read Like a Writer article) to extend your students' new knowledge of what it means to "Read Like a Writer" in rhetorical analysis.

• An assignment on applying the Read Like a Writer strategy using Ta-Nehisi Coates's excerpt from Between the World and Me

• a Jigsaw assignment for a group lesson applying Read Like a Writer to informational text

• a digital notebook (interactive notebook) with drag and drop annotating using Bunn's Read Like a Writer text

• a note-catcher document in response to informational texts (linked) about adapting Read Like a Writer to neuroscience

• Google Slides that introduce Read Like a Writer as a jump-start to rhetorical analysis

• a pre-reading question/response guide to delving into Read Like a Writer using various informational texts

• an Avid-adopted graphic organizer for note taking during viewing of a Read Like a Writer video lesson.

Check out my blog with teaching strategies

Check out my YouTube Channel for video lessons

Check out these discourse resources to level up engagement in your classroom:

• Probing Questions Speed Dating
• Discourse Builder Discussion Roundtable / Close Reading Activity
• Questions Stems by Question Type One-pager
• Progressive Questioning PD Workshop

Check out these resources to engage students in Debate:

• Freedom v. Safety Debate
• Growth Mindset Debate
• Who Gets the Heart Debate
• Debate Template/Slides for In-person & Digital Debates
• Full Debate Bundle Adaptable for all levels/grades + ESL

Check out these Argument Writing Resources:

• AP Language Argument Essay Step-by-Step Writing Guide
• Rhetorical Claims & Appeals Bundle
• Argument Essay Slides
• Ethos, Pathos, Logos Slides
• AP Language Exam Overview & Study Guide with Links
• Argumentative Writing Folder
• Argument Writing Stems Handout with Counter-rebuttals
• “Unknown” AP Lang Argument Prompt Essay Organizer Kit
• “Overrated AP Lang Argument Prompt Essay Organizer Kit + Line of Reasoning

Check out these listings to boost your students’ engagement with Rhetorical Analysis

Read Like a Writer - Rhetorical Analysis Kit

AP Lang Rhetorical Analysis Essay Reflection Tool

Rhetorical Device BIG Slide Deck

Rhetorical Claims & Appeals Bundle

Full SignPost set + rubric

Preparing your students for AP / SAT Multiple Choice Exams? Drive home strategies through these resources that get students ENGAGED with test preparation.

• Multiple Choice READING Questions Video Guide + Scaffolded Notes
• Multiple Choice WRITING Questions Video Guide + Scaffolded Notes
• AP Lang Multiple Choice EXPERT LESSON Group Activity
• Multiple Choice WRITING Slides: Sentence Combining & Organization Questions
• Multiple Choice Strategies POWERPOINT - AP/SAT/PSAT/MCAS all subjects
• AP Lang Multiple Choice WRITING questions with VIDEO tutorials
• Multiple Choice READING questions GROUP SOLVE activity (AP Lang/SAT/PSAT)
• Multiple Choice Strategy Mini Cards

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