I had to take another sick day today, but I wanted my lesson to be taught. Today I was going to cover business letters, specifically acceptance and rejection letters. With a substitute, I never know if I'm going to competent person or a corpse who steals my Sharpie pens, so I trust very little to be done when I'm gone. In order to remedy this, I used a website called VoiceThread to teach my lesson. I uploaded the letters to this site, then I recorded what I would say if I were in the classroom. I typically do a discussion and inquiry with my students, drawing the answers I want from them, but obviously I couldn't do that with this. I was able to do an audio modeling of these letters for my class though, then they were given templates to follow to write their own. Hopefully this will be successful and something I can use for a planned absence in the future.
Edit note: I had a few students tell me they thought it was cool how I used the VoiceThread and it was better than having a sub try to explain things.
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