Answer/Quote: “Adolescents
enter their middle school reading classroom…and begin reading sentences from
charts on the walls. Occasionally someone hands the teacher a slip of paper
with a sentence and the name of its author from their outside reading. A girl
notices that the sentence she submitted yesterday has been added to a chart; a
sentence that a boy wrote last week is also on one of the charts.” P. 92.
Quote: “Students
comment on length and sentence structure, word choice and vocabulary, imagery
and metaphor, and, of course, the book and its author. They hear their peers
talk about what they have found interesting: information, ideas, language,
images, illustrations, and the books themselves.” P. 95.
Comment: A wonderful habit to attract students to
language. I have been a collector of “significant sentences” for years and
years. I still review the sentences from my collection from time to time, and I
use them often in my writing. A good way to involve students in language.
RayS.
Title: “Sentence
Collecting: Authentic Literacy Events in the Classroom.” RB Speaker, Jr. and PR
Speaker. Journal of Reading (October 1991), 92-95.
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