Mr. Chris Howley
ELA Year 3 Teacher
Mission Academy

He is ramping up the demand of the task by using Hochman as a strong checking for understanding in ELA. Hochman is being used as a tool for instruction beyond a vocabulary strategy. In the student facing materials, he chunked the text; then, he provided a fragment below the passage. Students were required to demonstrate mastery by revising the fragment to a complete sentence. In order to do this successfully, students needed to have a deep understanding of what it is that he/ she just read. 

Ms. Juliet Omenukwa
Consumer Mathematics Teacher
Mission Academy

This teacher-created resource is a creative and impressive use of the Scrambled Sentences strategy. She asked a poignant question related to the financial topic studied that unit and scrambled the answer; students then had to demonstrate mastery of content knowledge by answering the question with unscrambling the sentence. She provided an excellent twist to checking for understanding. She is also fully preparing students to be successful in the next phase of writing instruction: question types.