Abby Novelli

University of Delaware ‘23 English education

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@TeachrHendrix13 I think starting off letting the students know that they will be sharing their pieces before they write them is a good first step. If a student knows what they will have to share with others, they will be more comfortable than if they were surprised.

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@StefanieChowUD I love your point about how writing is a social activity. Without teaching how to properly provide feedback, that aspect gets lost

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#396FlynnS22 One question I have is how to give feedback to a student who does well in a certain type of writing, but not in another. I think types of feedback vary with the genres of writing, so some students may only be used to one type of feedback. How can you solve this?

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#396FlynnS22 I think that helping students properly give peer feedback is an important lesson. Giving them simple sentence starters to kickstart what they want to say about a piece of writing will help them think of other things to say rather than "I liked it"

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#396FlynnS22 In "Responding to Students' Writing," the technique to "respond like a person" is great. I think it is easy to look at a piece of writing and think of it as only a bunch of words. Instead, look at the writing as a product of a person, and respond as a person.

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#396FlynnS22 "Responding to Students' Writing" mentioned that students who have not gotten proper writing feedback tend to write to fit they think the teacher wants. I remember doing this as a student, and wishing I could've gotten better feedback to my essays.

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@FaithONeil15 I personally wish I had used collaborative writing in school. I feel like this would have helped me a lot as a young writer

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@HaileyKnowles11 I agree! My favorite writing strategy was process writing to give the students a purpose for writing

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One question I have, is when teaching “criticality,” to younger groups of students, what is the best way for them to understand, if they have not interacted with important social situation that involve what criticality teaches? #396FlynnS22

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The concept of “criticality” in the HRL framework was something I thought was important. This concept involves the student understanding power, anti oppression and equity in the texts they are reading. #396FlynnS22

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I think in “writing next,” process writing is something that interested me. Providing students a purpose for their writing will definitely impact their motivation #396FlynnS22

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One aspect about “writing next” that I found interesting was that teaching grammar instruction in classrooms had a negative effect on student writing #396FlynnS22

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@udemilyarias One thing that relates to 295 would be acknowledging the culture and background of your students before you teach them. Keeping up to date on pop culture might just be one of those aspects to anticipate as an older teacher.

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3) one question that I have would be which texts are the best to critique and which would be off limits? #395flynnF21

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2) We can help students rethink aspects of pop culture is by showing them that any type of pop culture is political and being able to recognize that allows them to become better consumers #395FlynnF21

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1) we can help students become critical consumers of media by having them critique pop culture in the media #395FlynnF21

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@JEFTeach Dr. Newkirk: Boys traditional favorite literature picks not being taken seriously in literature is an extremely common in classrooms and is something teachers should be discouraging. Any reading is good reading.

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@DrPorcher In my personal language and grammar usage, I can enact linguistic justice by educating others in my real life when they point out those not sticking to what they were taught was “standard” English. I can respect others grammar and reflect on my own usage. #TeacherEduMatters

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@DrPorcher @aprilbakerbell Linguistic justice in a K-12 classroom setting is teaching a class that one language style of grammar is not the most correct. In fact there is no “standard” English. Linguistic justice is teaching young learners about different cultures and how to respect them #TeacherEduMatters

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@DrPorcher @aprilbakerbell @aprilbakerbell states that “black language speaking students...get falsely positioned as linguistically inadequate” of teaching a “standard” English continues in classrooms (2) #teacheredumatters

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@DrPorcher @aprilbakerbell Teaching mainstream English as the “standard” is an act of linguistic violence because of exiles other forms of English and labels them as unprofessional. Any other culture with a different linguistic story is seen as less intelligent which shouldn’t be taught (1)