I believe giving students sentence
frameworks to use in their own writing can be very helpful. It allows students
to identify key, command, and connector words in sentences; why and where each belongs;
and how to create a complete sentence. By repetitively using select frameworks,
students should be able to internalize the sentence stems and begin to use them
in creative/ free writing, without having to reference a template.
Chapter
6 gave me great ideas to improve my vocabulary extra credit assignments. Giving
students new vocabulary, along with categorical key words and sentence stems/
structures, allows students to become more familiar with and more comfortable
using high-level sentence structures in their own writing. I plan on
incorporating the skills chapter 6 addresses in multiple mini lessons in my
current unit on rocks and minerals. I would like students to create comparison
and classification sentences on types of rocks once we go over the three types,
and to create characteristic sentences on mineral traits.
Your rock activity would also help students with their general writing (as in your earth relocation assignment). It would help them develop--on a micro level--the kind of logical structuring required of larger research/analytic paper.
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