Managing IF

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Managing IF instruction in the classroom makes no special demands on teachers who are accustomed to teaching for critical and creative thinking. Generally, it is helpful for each student to have an interactive fiction folder, to keep together print materials, such as background information and maps, that are necessary for most of the stories. The folder's cover makes a good place to have each student record class goals for studying IF, such as learning about a new form of literature, learning to manage his or her thinking more effectively, and learning about a variety of literary techniques, such as plot, character, setting, and point of view.

The folder may also contain lists of problems encountered in each story, perhaps in a small "blue book" of some sort. Each problem should probably have a page of its own, to allow room to record restatements of the problem, possible solutions, and confirmed solutions.

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