"You throw the ball. You hit the ball. You catch the ball. You got it?"
 
In practice, my son's Little League coach moves his players around to many different positions. "I want them to be able to field anywhere," he explained early one spring.  He wants them to practice grounders and pop-ups, throwing to first and hitting the cut-off man, pitching and catching, bunting and swinging away, running as soon as the ball is hit and sliding under the tag at home!

I'm a lot like Ryan's coach, because I want my ninth and tenth grade English Language Learners to be able to hit, catch, run and throw the English language to and from many different positions on the rhetorical fields of school and life.  I want my students "to play freely the whole symbolic scale, and to know where [they] are on it at a given moment" (Moffett, p. 28). To do this my students need a lot of practice.