Post on 22-Feb-2016
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TeachingEnglish Language LearnersKara O’Dell
Collaborative Retell1. Choose an enriched text to read to students. 2. Copy 4 or more pictures from text.3. Mix pictures up and show them to students.4. Read story and have students look for pictures
while reading. 5. Put pictures on board and have students help
sequence them.6. With student involvement, write one sentence per
picture.7. Have students go up to board and identify parts of
speech for each sentence.
Collaborative Retell Example
Sample Sentence
Finally, the frog grows into an adult.
Identify Part of Speech Underline each word in the correct color
based on the part of speech. Adjectives = Purple Nouns = Orange Pronouns = Yellow Verbs = Blue Adverbs = Dark Green Preposition = Lime Green Conjunction = Pink Interjection = Brown
Identify Part of Speech
Finally, the frog grows into an adult.
Grammar WallWhen collaborative retell is finished, write the words from each sentence on a notecard and put under the correct part of speech.
Grammar Wall Example
WritingSyntax SurgeryTake sentences from collaborative retell and cut apart each word. Have students put sentence back together like a puzzle.
Create new and more complex sentences as the students progress.
Vocabulary Vertical SentencesUsing sentence from collaborative retell, choose a few words and write synonyms and antonyms of those words to develop vocabulary.
VocabularyVertical Sentence Example
Vocabulary Choose one word to define from vertical
sentence. Collaboratively come up with a
definition. Students show understanding by using
vocabulary word in a sentence and then draw a picture that correlates with their sentence.
Vocabulary Journal Examples 1st Week of School 8th Week of School
Wrap Up ELL students are taught in a 4 hour
block 1 hour of reading 1 hour of oral language/vocabulary 1 hour of Writing 1 hour of Grammar
Reference handouts for more ideas for each subject.