Monday, September 30, 2013

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In an English classroom setting, I will be teaching some grammar concepts. One grammar concept that comes to mind is the use of similes.  I can teach similes at a concrete level by having students’ group together words with their descriptors (i.e. stars would go with twinkle, lion with strong, etc.) This would help them assimilate by using existing schema to help them group things together. After they had practice, I would teach them more at the formal level by guiding them through practices of creating their own sentences using similes (i.e. Brian is strong like a lion, Ashley’s eyes twinkle like the stars, etc.) This can cause disequilibrium to the students because they haven’t seen these objects grouped together before, but I can help them accommodate by introducing these new ideas to them and modeling some examples for them.  

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