The warm-ups are created daily and provide a way to engage the class and jump start them into a class discussion that will introduce the reading or lesson for that day. Each lesson includes a reading component that may include her reading aloud to the class, requesting students to read aloud, or having students read silently at their desks. After the reading component a writing assignment is introduced which usually goes back to the warm-up question that started the class discussion at the beginning of the class. The teacher has varied the types of writing the students are expected to produce ranging from writing short sentences to writing short essays. She has selected all of the texts that have been read and she solely determines the writing prompts for the
The warm-ups are created daily and provide a way to engage the class and jump start them into a class discussion that will introduce the reading or lesson for that day. Each lesson includes a reading component that may include her reading aloud to the class, requesting students to read aloud, or having students read silently at their desks. After the reading component a writing assignment is introduced which usually goes back to the warm-up question that started the class discussion at the beginning of the class. The teacher has varied the types of writing the students are expected to produce ranging from writing short sentences to writing short essays. She has selected all of the texts that have been read and she solely determines the writing prompts for the