I had a great day on Saturday with Robin Fleck’s ELL students. We decided that from now on we will unwrap not unpack complex sentences. I  found the article about the Emma Lazarus  poem and  have posted  the article about Visual Thinking Strategies.

https://readtodiscoveryourworld.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/visual-thinking-strategies-ch-2.pdf

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2014/11/11/356357971/common-core-reading-the-new-colossus

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/02/26/467969663/wheres-the-color-in-kids-lit-ask-the-girl-with-1-000-books-

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/magazine/on-the-way-home.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmagazine&action=click&contentCollection=magazine&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=3&pgtype=sectionfront