Learning for the Future

This is a fun reading tracker that can be used with ANY text. The visual of the iceberg as plot development arc promotes higher level analysis than just "what happened" in the story. It also is a great resource to make available after students have been absent and may need to understand the arc of the story to particpate. Students can use this to track their reading of a text, and as a support to prepare for discussion. Or use it as a prewriting organizer for their own creative writing project

Use this graphic organizer as a modeling and teaching tool, planner, or note tracker to scaffold or teach students how to do high-quality literary analysis. I use this to model how a body paragraph should connect at all levels. Have them write a sentence for analysis at each of the three levels: device, text, author, and world.

These cards (4 to a sheet) are used in tandem with with a class discussion. Students can be given the card which contains a definition and the word in context, and are encouraged to use this word in class discussion today. Students can "cash in" the cards as entry warm-ups or exit tickets for participation and vocabulary development formative assessment. The quote utilizes MLA formatting, which can be used as a model for in-text citations. These can also be used as word wall material.