STUDENTS
PERFORM
SURGERY ON
LANGUAGE
MhenMissouri State University teacher intern Sarah Abdukarimov
henMissouri Abd
karimov that the saw that the students in Cindy Enlow’s class
at
Century had shown an interest in the medical field, she sh
took
it it as as an an opportunity to use it it as the backdrop for teaching them
t
text text features.
In In her “Text Feature Surgery” lesson she prepared as a pa
part of
her year-long internship at Nixa learning how to be a great
teacher,
er, the students had to cut text text feature snippets out of maga
magazines
and save the lives of patients by "transplanting" the text features
fea
onto them. They then had to explain how the text text feature h
helped
save the patients' lives on the post-operative reports (a.k.a.
k
text)
ide
how the text feature helps the reader understand a text).
“The goal of the lesson was for students to practice identifying
ing and interpreting nonfiction text features. I really wanted
wante
them not only to to get to role role play potential career options, b
but
also to enjoy the exploration of text and become experts in in
the
process,” stated Abdukarimov.
Abdukarimov took learning learning to a whole new new level with
with this
lesson and really got into
into the
part and had students eng
engaged
by dressing up and makin
making it an
experience by wearing scr
scrubs,
having siren noises, and ev
even
displaying displaying a heartb
heartbeat
monitor on the screen
s
the
throughout the lesson.
“When it
came time
for the
activity,
Sarah
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cam
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reviewed
the
text
features
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the
students
studen
had been lea
learning.
Once she was finished
Once was
ished so
she sounded
an analarm alarm wh which
was my sig
signal.
I came rus
rushing
into into the ro
room
with all of of
the
‘patients’p patients
on
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