Curriculum Cycle Response

This article was not one of my favorite article but I did really enjoy the "Curriculum Cycle" and the recommendations for how to implement/go about each stage. For example to give the students background information or "building knowledge of the topic" by developing a word wall and picture and sentence making and barrier games, or watching a video and giving the students an information grid. I personally can see myself using a word wall because I think it a great tool and also picture and sentence matching because I think that this technique would really help my students. In the "Modeling the text" stage the goal is for the students to understand the overall purpose and structure of the text. I would personally like to use the text reconstruction tool where students where they sequence jumbled sentences into a coherent text. I can see this being a fun activities for the students and also very beneficial to get the students to understand the structure and organization. In the "join construction" stage the teacher will model writing a text so that the students can understand how to write a text but not have the anxiety and feel threatened to do it on their own. At this stage the text recommends that you constantly keep asking questions to make sure the students know what is happening and check their understanding. At the last stage the students write their own texts and can do this in pairs or by themselves. I personally would have them do it on their own since they have had lots of group, class and partner work and I think they are ready at this point to take on the task themselves, and be successful at it!