Noden brings up many interesting ways to use grammatical chunks in the classroom. He gives many examples of chunking and use different methods to instruct students using these methods. I really enjoyed reading this chapter, because it gave me great ideas on how to use this in a classroom. I think that students would really enjoy learning about how to use grammatical chunking. I think a good way to introduce this to students would be by introducing the brushstroke methods and then leading it into writing paragraphs about random topics, and then lead that into writing a paper. Noden lists so many great examples of pieces that use the examples that he talks about. This would be a great introduction also to each chunking that I would introduce to students also.
I brought this up in my seventh grade classroom and I think that they really enjoyed this. I used the painting something that is invisible. I had to explain it a few times and give several examples before they fully grasped it, but in the end, they came up with some great pieces! It was really exciting, because they felt that they were doing "college level work!" They really got into it :)
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