Question Words and Sentence Starters

admin — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 13:35:46 +0000

I teach a lot of ELL students and one of the biggest obstacles for many of them to showcase what they know is that they struggle to understand what the question is asking. After that hurdle is surmounted, many still lack confidence to use the correct sentence starters and transition words.

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I pair this PowerPoint with a foldable for our interactive notebooks. I often have my students make them from scratch, as pictured below; but if you’re pressed for time or not too crafty, then print out the PDF.

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Using Participles to Describe

Lauren Crowley — Sat, 04 Mar 2017 14:35:57 +0000

When teaching students to write descriptively, I make sure to model for them different grammatical constructions for them to implement in their own writing. I try to limit the amount of grammar jargon I throw at them, but sometimes it’s just not possible to discuss certain sentence structures without certain academic vocabulary.

I use this PowerPoint to introduce them to the specifics of grammatical structures that most of them are in habit of reading all the time, but need an explicit push to incorporate into their own writing. Having miniature white boards makes checking their work a bit more engaging and interactive, as well as giving other students the benefit of seeing and editing others’ work.

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We finish the lesson by making a participle foldable to add into their interactive notebooks.

To reinforce what may be new information, especially for ELLs, I have two worksheets that separate the present from past participles, and show how both kinds of participles can be used as modifiers, either as adjectives or phrases.

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// INSTRUCTIONS: array(“url”,”title”,”type”,”size”),
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array(“https://www.theteacherslibrary.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/past-participles-modifiers.docx”,”Download past participle worksheet”,”docx”,”192kb”),
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