This is true not only in English language arts but for many other subjects like math, science, and social studies. The way Simmons uses the Hunger Games Trilogy to teach her lesson on the intentional sentence fragment is a way of incorporating trade books into her lesson. Alvermann mentioned the use of trade books by saying that they are "a strategy for using reading as a schema builder" (pg.180). Alvermann also states that "writing is a special kind of thinking and that when students write they must reflect on what they know" (pg. 180). This was very evident when Simmons described examples of her students ' writings. She noticed that after teaching her students about the intentional sentence fragment as a stylistic choice in writing, many of her students began to use it in their writing for various assignments. In order for students to incorporate intentional sentence fragments in their writing they had to really reflect on what they knew about intentional sentence fragments to figure out how to properly use it in their
This is true not only in English language arts but for many other subjects like math, science, and social studies. The way Simmons uses the Hunger Games Trilogy to teach her lesson on the intentional sentence fragment is a way of incorporating trade books into her lesson. Alvermann mentioned the use of trade books by saying that they are "a strategy for using reading as a schema builder" (pg.180). Alvermann also states that "writing is a special kind of thinking and that when students write they must reflect on what they know" (pg. 180). This was very evident when Simmons described examples of her students ' writings. She noticed that after teaching her students about the intentional sentence fragment as a stylistic choice in writing, many of her students began to use it in their writing for various assignments. In order for students to incorporate intentional sentence fragments in their writing they had to really reflect on what they knew about intentional sentence fragments to figure out how to properly use it in their