Balance of 4 Strands by Diane Ramanathan

Room 4

2025-10-21 00:31:20 UTC

Step Forward Canada

Input: 1B Listen and read the story
Output: 2A Write about a community problem; 3A Listen and write the missing information
Language focus: 1A Look at the pictures. Find these people in the pictures.
Fluency development: n/a

Blueprint

Input: Workshop - Do women talk more?
Output: n/a We wonder if it is a real-world writing task if it is scaffolded/broken into different activities?
Language focus: Practice - purpose of comparison + why are you comparing? Workshop - identifying the points; Getting started on the comparison; Blueprint
Fluency development: n/a

Canadian Writer's World Classification

Input: A Student Essay - Heroes
Output: Explore Topics - Writer's Desk Warm up; Writer's Room - Topics for Classification Essays
Language focus: Practice 3- Editing
Fluency development: n/a

Group #2 (Leann & Gary)

2025-10-21 00:32:21 UTC

Canadian Writer's World (fairly well balanced but no fluency)

Meaning-focused input - Lots of input exercises.

Meaning-focused output - Classification essay.

Language focus - Grammar hints, explain what a thesis statement is ... . Vocabulary boost

Fluency development - Not evident

Step Forward (somewhat more balanced than Blueprint)

Meaning-focused input - Yes, pictures, listen to the story and reading comprehension. Listen to a news flyer.

Meaning-focused output - Write the missing information, three ways to participate in your community.

Language focus - Not evident

Fluency development - Not evident

Blueprint (not well-balanced/focus on input)

Meaning-focused input - Text - what is the comparison/similarities/differences. Matching exercise, Read the text and compare. Template to follow.

Meaning Focused output - Not a lot of output. Scaffolded to complete tables but no real exercise to write a product.

Language focus - No grammar exercise

Fluency development - No fluency exervise

Room 5 Asha and Rosemary

rosemarytayler3 — 2025-10-21 00:34:32 UTC

Step forward Canada:
input: listening and reading
output: true or false; writing paragraph; reading paragraph
language focus: no grammar
no fluency.
Blueprint:
input: reading
output: writing
some language focus
no fluency
Canadian Writer's World:
input: reading
output: writing
language focus: yes; examples given
fluency: more writing practice than other two examples

Room 1 - Mayra, Maysam and Svetlana

mayragoncalves28 — 2025-10-21 00:35:46 UTC

Step forward Canada: meaning focused input is there (reading), there's no language focus, and the meaning focused output is there - the task is "talking about a problem in the community and give some solutions"

Blue Print: meaning focused input is there (reading), language focus is there (teaching comparison - on the "helpful transitions" section), meaning focused output is there on the last paragraph on the last page where it prompts the Ss to outline their ideas to support their opinions (?)

Canadian Writer's:

Meaning focused input is there (reading), language focus we're not sure is there, meaning focused output is there - classification essay