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
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