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by Michelle Boyd Waters, M.Ed. 

Do Your Students Struggle With Expanding Text?

October 15, 2015 in Pedagogy

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TechBytes-300x3001 A fellow #ELAOK teacher shared a link to an amazing site that helps you show your students how they can expand their writing from a very basic sentence to one brimming with sensory details.

I checked out the site and I can already see how this can help my students who struggle with adding details to their paragraphs. You can view the site here:

http://www.telescopictext.com/

That said, the concept of making tea may not engage some of my students. Perhaps if I could write a sentence about Minecraft, or the TV show that everyone is watching. The folks at Telescoping Text clearly were several steps ahead of me because they have created a way for you to make your own telescoping text. Just go here:

http://www.telescopictext.org/write/

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Michelle Boyd Waters, M.Ed.

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Michelle taught secondary ELA in public schools for 10 years. She served as an award-winning journalist before transitioning into education and is now Assistant Director of the OU Writing Center and a teacher consultant for the Oklahoma Writing Project. Michelle co-edited the Oklahoma English Journal for five years. She is a PhD candidate in Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum at the University of Oklahoma. She started reThink ELA LLC as a teacher blog in 2012.

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