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Designating the MVP
Author(s) -
Strom Carolyn
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the reading teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.642
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1936-2714
pISSN - 0034-0561
DOI - 10.1002/trtr.1287
Subject(s) - phrase , point (geometry) , meaning (existential) , literal (mathematical logic) , structuring , craft , psychology , linguistics , mathematics education , computer science , natural language processing , philosophy , geometry , mathematics , archaeology , finance , economics , psychotherapist , history
This teaching tip highlights a strategy that assists teachers in structuring classroom discussions about texts. Specifically, this conversational technique helps students think and talk about a text beyond its literal meaning. During classroom conversations that employ this strategy, teachers help students extend their overall understanding of a text and give them structured opportunities to synthesize its information. This strategy requires students to make decisions about why a particular phrase is the Most Valuable Phrase ( MVP ) within a text as a whole. Using specific MVP criteria as a reference point, students practice explaining the ways in which certain phrases from a text are connected to its Main idea. Additionally, students are guided to analyze the author's craft by citing Vivid language and by explaining why a particular portion of a text qualifies as a “Phrase that stays.”