The Polliwog Journal

This was the question (paraphrased):
What assessment will you use to help you choose materials for your class?
When I heard it, I wondered how I would answer it. I also wondered what the question implied.
I think the intention of the question was to get a new teacher candidate to think about how to assess varying reading [...]

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On a whim, I pasted the first paragraph of a story (A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez) into Wordle.

It would be cool to hand the Wordle out (nothing more, not even the title) to the class before reading have students in groups come up with the following:

What is the story [...]

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