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Learning Theory Map
Literature Circle 
Assignment: Students choose specific roles to play in a literature discussion. I have used both the traditional roles, (discussion leader, literary luminary, word connector, historian, etc.) and created my own roles.
Constructivist Transaction Reader Response, Social Learning Socio-Cultural Theory: Students are asked to make connections to the literature in order to broaden their understanding of the text and to enrich it with their own life experiences and connections. I have in the past made a role called the Community Connector in which the stdent makes a direct connection between their own cultural community and that of the novel.
Close Reading
Assignment: The teacher reads a passage aloud and while reading thinks alound as they analyze the text for thigs like diction, tone, symbolism, etc. This serves as a scaffold for the students. The teacher demonstrates the meaning of the literary terms and how to use them in analysis. Students then choose a passage from the nights reading and in small groups they perform a close reading either out loud or as a writting assignment.
Constructivist/ Social Constructivism Theory: Students learn to analyze the text through the scaffolding done by the teacher in her think aloud.
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Independent Reading
Assignment: Students choose a book to read that alligns with their own interests/culture. After reading the book they share their insights with the class in the form of an essay or presentation.
Sociocultural Theory: Student will connect better with literature if they have a social or cultural connection to the novel.
SOAPSTONE Graphic Organizer
Assignment: Students read a poem or speech and fill in the graphic organizer for the following categories; speaker, occasion, audience, purpose, subject, and tone.
Constructivist Social Lingustic Theory: Students analyse the language of a text in order to undertand the subtext. For example the connotations of certain words and how those diction choices create tone.
Dialectical Journal/Reading Reflection
Assignment: As students read they choose passages or quotes that are significant to them and record those passages in a double entry journal. One the other side of the page they record their response to the passage or quote. They may decide to make a personal connection or they may have questions about the passages, or they may make a connection to other parts fo the reading.
Constructivist Transaction Reader Response: Students are encouraged to have a "dialogue" with the reading and through this interaction they construct meaning.
Metaphor Dice
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Schema Theory: Student connect their past understanding of the nature of metaphor to help them create a meaning for a new metaphor. They also must access their past life experiences and knowledge to build that meeting.
Poem Puzzle
Assignment: A complex poem is cut into strips. Students attempt to reconstruct the poem in the correct order.
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