Text Openers
These introductory activities are designed to help students connect their own personal experience to the interpretive issues in the story. Rather than focusing on unfamiliar vocabulary, genre, or biographical information about the author, which force the teacher to become an authoritative dispenser of information, these activities help students find issues and themes that will be of great interest to them. Then, if students feel the need to understand a word or phrase, the genre, or more about the author, pursuing this information becomes part of the student's genuine inquiry into the story, a natural part of her own process of finding meaning.
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