Step 2 :Have Students Speak in Complete Sentences
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I provide my students with opportunities to speak in complete sentences by .
State your comment by beginning with this sentence stem:
I provide my students with opportunities to speak in complete sentences by .
I keep sentence stems of the white board in the gym. I change them based on what we are doing that week. After we have lined up I have them complete the sentence to their line partner and then I let them share their sentence to the class if they want to.
ReplyDeleteIts great how you hold them accountable!
DeleteWhile working with my ELL student in a small group on their Texas Regions projects I beforehand created sentence stems for him such as:
ReplyDeleteThe cities in this region are______________.
The geography in the coastal plains looks like__________________________.
Some attractions you can visit in this region are_______________________.
The climate in the coastal plains is______________________.
I asked him to repeat these sentence stems to me with the correct information. He was able to successfully do this, and then he used the sentence stems to create a well developed paragraph.
How cool! You were able to incorporate speaking and writing!
DeleteI love using sentence stems in class. It is helpful for everyone, especially when they don't know how to start. I use them in science a lot for conclusions, like " I conclude that...because..."
ReplyDeleteI also used them at the beginning of the year to get to know my students: "This year, I am excited about..." "I am nervous about..." "One thing I want you to know is..."
Sometimes I use them for an exit or entrance ticket activity. I think they help everyone, including my ELL students and even struggling students, feel confident in participating.
The exit ticket helps incorporate writing as well! Sounds like your students are getting plenty of speaking opportunities.
DeleteFor my Pre-k class, I use lots of sentence stems and modeling. I believe that when children speak in complete sentences, they can incorporate this into their
ReplyDeletewriting and vocabulary. Hopefully if we can teach speaking in complete sentences in Pre-K, this will lay a good foundation for Kindergarten.
I'm sure you are building a great foundation by holding the students accountable speaking in complete sentences.
DeleteIn particular, I have been requiring complete sentences for science investigations. Since an investigation is triggered by a question, the inverse of the question becomes the sentence frame for the hypothesis. When I ask investigative questions, I write them on the board. As students offer hypotheses, I point to the words in the question to show that the sentence frame or a sentence stem for the hypothesis is right there. Recently, the students created their own investigation to explore forces, one group asked, "Will increasing the number of magnets extend the distance of the magnetic field?" Their sentence stem was, "Increasing the number of magnets will extend the distance of the magnetic field because more magnets will make more magnetic force." We also frequently use sentence stems and sentence frames in math to state concepts fully with the hopes that it will increase retention. Using complete sentences has helped students speak and write with complete sentences that show their understanding more clearly.
ReplyDeleteThis is awesome! You are really helping your kids gain more academic language.
DeleteI like how the sentence stems during class conversations give students more self-confidence when sharing their ideas. I also enjoy seeing how when one student uses the sentence stems or speaks in a complete sentence, it seems to motivate other student to speak in a sentence as well. I am noticing how more of my students are writing in complete sentences since practicing speaking in sentences.
ReplyDeleteI model using sentence stems. It helps our ELL and SpEd students with both speaking and writing. My hope is that these children in particular will speak in complete sentences, and incorporate it into their
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I use sentence stems for my ELL and SpEd students, as well as model verbal responses for other students. It works well, because when one says a complete statement, the others follow.
ReplyDeleteIn speech I am constantly making students speak in complete sentences for everything!!!! If the response to my stimulus questions requires only a one word response, for example, "Where do birds live?" The expected response is only one word or short phrase, "a nest" I then cue: "Great! Now tell me that in a complete sentence." If the student just looks at me, then I model: If I were to use a complete sentence to answer the question I would say, "A bird lives in a nest." Now you say it. For my articulation students who are working on generalization of their skills, we play lots of games, such as "Go Fish." The expectation is when answering, it has to be in a complete sentence. Dialogue: "Do you have a rabbit? Instead of "No, go fish" the student has to respond, "No I don't have a rabbit, go fish" No one word responses, complete sentences only. Even for my PK students. If we are plating a game and I ask "what color do you want to be? Obviously they would just say the color name, "green." I then cue them to expand, now ask me in a complete sentence. Again, if they can't I model what to say and then make them repeat it.
ReplyDeleteI provide my students opportunities to speak in complete sentences by modeling and writing sentences stems for them to use. For example...
ReplyDeleteI think this book will be about...
The connection I made to this book is...
The theme of this story is....because...
I know the character is feeling...because...
Students are required to use the sentence stem modeled when answering questions.
Many times our students just say one word to communicate what they want. One student has been calling me “Teacher” and saying “bathroom” to tell me he needs to use the restroom. So I have addressed this by reminding him what my name is and using sentence stems. Such as:
ReplyDelete“Ms. Kim, I don’t understanding this part of the question..”
“Ms. Kim, I need some help reading this part of the question.”
“Ms. Kim, may I get some help with..”
Since then, he has been using complete sentences to get my attention and also in communicating his needs.
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ReplyDeleteI provide my students with opportunities to speak in complete sentences by providing them with sentence stems and frames for important math concepts. Because students write in complete sentences when we use sentence frames for math notes, they get support for speaking in complete sentences. I have seen ELL students read the complete sentences from their notes when they give verbal responses to questions. This also supports their learning of correct sentence structures for future use of complete sentences.
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