I have also engaged students in a twitter chat with one of the podcasts for homework one night since there was not time in class to discuss the story. I ask questions that have to do with the students' ability to comprehend, analyze, evaluate, and synthesize (Bloom's Taxonomy). I have given students the option to listen to the stories on their own at times or we have listened to them in class and read along with the transcript. For example, I have selected stories like Return to the Scene of the Crime, Middle School, Nobody's Family Is Going to Change, and Right to Remain Silent (which was ironically on last week). I selected some funny ones to engage the students at first and then shifted to more serious stories. I started browsing for some of my favorite stories and then choosing which ones I thought the students would like best. Some of the stories you have developed provided excellent examples of the same standards and objectives I should be teaching in the state of Ohio. Almost three years ago it occurred to me that I could use some of the cool stories from TAL in my lesson plans as I teach my sophomore students about informational texts.
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