[ola] Re: idea for class.
- From: Arnold <arnoldb@xxxxxxxx>
- To: ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 07:25:52 -0400
Getting students to elaborate is one of our biggest challenges. They need to
have a large supply of common words that connect sentences and then be asked to
use one or two to elaborate. "I like pizza" is fine but adding "because it is
delicious and sometimes my mom makes pizza at home" is possible with just two
connectors and a little vocab and is a much richer elaboration. We used to have
big pieces of paper on the wall, each with a connector word. Students were
quick to use them and before too long they didn't need to look for a word.
It's a slow process and they go through plateaus, periods of time where growth
is slowed, but it's normal. Encouragement and support is all they need as they
inch along.
Your collaborative efforts are a wonderful model for building community.
Arnold
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From: Stel Schmalz <sschmalz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 09/04/2013 6:35 AM (GMT-05:00)
To: ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ola] Re: idea for class.
Great activity! Last year, one of my 1st year kids stopped me after school to
tell me that she needed more "connectors". She was trying to extend her
sentences, but could not b/c she didn't know how to connect the words. I hope
to do more similar activities this year also.
Stel
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 1:51 AM, Nanosh Lucas <nanosh.lucas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I was just putzing around thinking about this linguist talking about what you
need to learn a language. He focused a lot on linking words. I often have
students talk about how they want to have more focus on them. I remembered a
statement that someone posted on Facebook: "Things that don't go together." I'm
going to set that up in Spanish practicing the word "con" (with)
Ex:
Cosas que no se deben juntar:
crema de cacahuete con café
una puerco con una princesa
Mylee Cyrus con Robin Thicke
Students have to add on to it, I suppose is the idea. I thought it would be
interesting to start a progression with a linking word, but when I started
looking at other linking words, i couldn't come up with questions/statements as
cool as these so squarely out of context.
Hope you are all well.
Nanosh
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