After reading Tompkins, chapter 8, on Facilitating students' Comprehension, I found many different strategies and structures that could be used to help students in Language Arts. On page 274, of Tompkins book they talk about and explain the Five Expository Text Structures. I really liked the chart shown on figure 8.8, they give the pattern name, a description of the given pattern, how they organize the concept, and a sample. This is a really thorough way of having students work. I believe by using these structures that it will help students with their work and understanding in their work. In my classroom I have seen students work on such things like a comparison as a class, but I have not yet seen the students use one of the five text structure. i would love to see the students use more of these patterns in the classroom. Maybe I can find a way to incorporate one of the five structures into my lesson plan.
The only time I saw the student work on anything similar to the five structures was, when the students were put into groups and had to sort information about the different colonies into a Venn diagram. Though I thought this was a great activity, only some students were working on the diagram, while others just did not care or had no idea what they were suppose to do. In this case the structure will not help in the end. How could she incorporate this method to be affective?
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I thik it is great that you are seeing a lot of what we are reading about at your placement. It is a great experience to see first hand what the authprs are talking about. I alos thought that the chart in figure 8.8 was halpful. I would like to se somehting like this implemented at my own placement. I do not see much language arts instruction aside from reading and answering the questions. It is great that you are able to see differnt strategies used.
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