Is it possible that some English teachers don't pay attention to
what goes on in their own reading or point out to their students what
the writers they're reading do with sentence structure, punctuation,
rhetoric?
That's why I'm so enamored by the work of Katie Wood Ray. Her
books What You Know by Heart and Wondrous Words show
students (and teachers) how to read like writers. She gets elementary
and secondary students finding grammatical and rhetorical strategies
themselves--giving the strategies their own names. Her work is
thoughtful, readable, do-able. Max