Video: Passage-Level Text Analysis in Practice
Dr Misty Adoniou delivers an impassioned and inspirational presentation, demonstrating how passage-level text analysis in your classroom can provide intentional teaching opportunities for grammatical choice knowledge, sentence structure, improving spoken and written vocabulary and writers' techniques. This is a must-watch video for anyone embarking on close analysis of a literary text, wanting ideas. Please note, prior to Misty conducting this passage-level analysis, she recommends retelling the story to your students in your own words, then reading the text and exploring it together, before moving on to this close analysis.
Key Messages
- Closely examining writers’ techniques to communicate emotion, pace, atmosphere
- Breaking down the grammatical structure of sentences and the vocabulary choices by the writer and their impact on the reader
- Demonstrating intentional teaching of grammar and language knowledge