Do Your Students Struggle With Expanding Text?

October 15, 2015 in Pedagogy

A fellow #ELAOK teacher shared a link to an amazing site that helps you show your students how they can expand their writing from a very basic sentence to one brimming with sensory details.

Need an example of how to expand a sentence? http://t.co/jE4ut4WoGH #elaok #oklaed Thanks @jimsmithelgin

— Kelli Anglley (@kellianglley) October 10, 2015

I checked out the site and I can already see how this can help my students who struggle with adding details to their paragraphs. You can view the site here:

http://www.telescopictext.com/

That said, the concept of making tea may not engage some of my students. Perhaps if I could write a sentence about Minecraft, or the TV show that everyone is watching. The folks at Telescoping Text clearly were several steps ahead of me because they have created a way for you to make your own telescoping text. Just go here:

http://www.telescopictext.org/write/

Michelle Boyd Waters, M.Ed.

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I am a secondary English Language Arts teacher, a University of Oklahoma student working on my doctorate in Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum with an concentration in English Education and co-Editor of the Oklahoma English Journal. I am constantly seeking ways to amplify students' voices and choices.