Coach: look at the exit check results and the paper practice. Go back over every item a student missed: read it together, have the student explain their thinking, then show the correct thinking. Use the reteach routine below for anyone who missed two or more. Students who got everything right take the stretch task.

🔄 Reteach it (missed two or more)

Read sentences aloud: faulty parallelism often sounds "off." Underline each item in a series and check that they match.

Use a "sentence-combining" card deck: two short sentences per card, and the student combines them with a different phrase or clause type each time.

Items in a series should be ___.
Answer: parallel.
A semicolon joins two ___.
Answer: independent clauses.
Ideas that flow and connect show ___.
Answer: cohesion.

🚀 Stretch it (got everything right)

Find a famous speech sentence with parallel structure and explain its effect.
Answer: Any.
Revise a paragraph from your own literary analysis essay for syntax and cohesion.
Answer: Any.