Language Conventions & Text Structures: Do it in reading

What:
During a staff meeting, our RTLIT leader mentioned the strategy of teaching & learning about language and text features through reading.  Wonderful strategy and something I was aware of and doing already.  A resource we have in our school is the Short Stories Handy Resource.

So what:
These are great because included with each of the student texts are teacher notes that explain the different language and structural features.  I found these useful because I could identify the language features and discuss these with the group.  I was impressed with level of oral discussion once we started to look deeper into some of the language features.  I discovered that it was useful to discuss individual words and model how to visualise using the different features such as metaphor.
The resource also has a Bloom Taxonomy of student follow up activities.

Now what:  Continue to use these these texts and the teaching pages.