Strategy 1 – Building Sentences
Teacher lists and pronounces 6-8 vocabulary words related to the major concepts to be learned and that are adequately defined by context in the text to study. Some of these words can present relations to the text that students already know.
1. Students individually, with a partner or in groups use at least 2 of these words to write sentences that they think may be in the text. Teacher has already provided the list of sentence starters to help beginner students create their sentences. This is a draft of the sentences that will be edited later.
2. Students read and verify the content vocabulary to verify if the content they predicted was related to the text.
3. Students generate new sentences using the targeted vocabulary and this time they will support their sentences with the text.