Strategy Lesson Reflection - Sketch the Text

I thought overall our strategy lesson on Sketching the Text went pretty well. The flow felt very smooth. I thought modeling our strategy lesson instead of just having notes on how to do it worked really well with this type of strategy. Additionally, I thought having a short and sweet PowerPoint presentation worked well because otherwise our peers may have become bored with a long drawn out presentation. Picking short readings also helped with the issue of boredom. The short readings that effectively showed the strategy lesson gave our peers a clear understanding without boring them. If I could do anything differently, then I would make specific questions for our peers to answer about the pros and cons and likes and dislikes for the strategy. I thought maybe it was hard to get something out of them because we left it open to them to say whatever they wanted. The only unexpected thing we encountered was a sort of long wait time we had after asking about the pros and cons of the strategy. It was a little bit awkward, so in the moment we made up specific questions off the top of our heads. I think if we had specific questions, and then let them turn and talk quickly at their table before coming into a whole class discussion there would have been less of an awkward pause, and they would have been willing to share. Overall, I felt our strategy lesson went really well.

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