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ECL310 POST 2

This isn’t a bad resource, but I wouldn’t say it’s a great one either. The story provided is a great basis for students and it allows them to solely focus on their language and making the story more interesting. It is good that it includes mini tutorials about the use of pronouns, verbs and adverbs, however, it is very easy for students to just skim over this feature and guess which word fits in each box instead of actually using the information available. It would be beneficial to go through the information provided beforehand as a whole class, and just use this as a refresher or reinforcer activity. Writing out the ending is the next part and the teacher should also set some guidelines for this as there is no minimum length ending and it doesn’t actually make you write anything if you don’t want to. By encouraging students to share their comic at the end of the lesson, students would be more likely to complete the activity properly so that they have something to share with their peers. This activity could also be used to emphasise what a difference an ending can make to a story as all the stories created would be the same up until the ending. This could be used as a preceding activity to students writing their own alternate ending to a text they’ve been working on as a class.