Learning Sentence Style with Formal and Informal Writing

“One of the possible activities that students can complete each week that is authentic and applicable is a specific revision task. For my students, I provide a template and a very short video through a shared folder on Google Drive along with a sentence or clause that contains a new grammar rule… The idea is for students to try and discover the rule for themselves through inquiry and apply it to how it could be used across multiple platforms in and out of the classroom.”

Resources Noted in Chapter 4

Code Switching 

• “…code switching is an individual’s choice of a dialect or language over another, depending on different cultural or social situations in which a person has an identity” (p.64).
• Kristen Hawley Turner
• Wheeler and Swords Codeswitching NCTE Article

• Social media sentence template (Google Slide) (Please feel free to use the template, just five us credit please)

Sentence Combining:

Lino – Sticky Note Tool
Padlet – “We give you a blank page; you put anything on it, anywhere.”

Lino example:

Padlet example:

Fake Social Media Digital Tools:

• simitator
• Fake Twitter
• Facebook
• Text Messaging