I can truly relate to Jago's thoughts as a student, "I can remember as a student being in awe of my teachers' ability to identify themes (61)."
I remember sitting at my desk thinking, how does this teacher come up with this? It made sense when the teacher elaborated and explained their thinking but I was never very good at performing this process on my own. If students become familiar with how a plot works as well as how other elements of fiction work they will be one step closer to understanding a difficult text.
Jago also brings up a good point when she describes literary devices, "What they don't understand is that understanding how literary devices work gives readers power over text.
To me, these literary devices and elements of fictions are like formulas in math; how can we expect students to get through a text without understanding these crucial elements?
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