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Activities that promote speaking and writing fluency

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Agenda

● Introductions

● Philosophy

● Strategies and

Activities

Demetra CornwellElementary Specialist

Brenda RosasSecondary Specialist

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Philosophy

Grammar is embedded in...

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Speaking WritingListening Reading

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Philosophy

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Language practice must be: Not drill and kill of the past

PurposefulMeaningful

Engaging

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Philosophy

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Practice Language

Automaticity

Grammatical Accuracy

Foundation for Discourse: Speaking and Writing

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Philosophy

7Marianne Celce-Murcia & Diane Larsen-Freeman (1999)

Shift Stronger Emphasis

Explicit Language Instruction

Grammar Form

Grammar Function

Communicative Competence

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Philosophy

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Grammar Forms Grammar Functions

Parts of Speech Naming People, Places, Things

Sentence Structures Describing Actions

Idioms Comparing and Contrasting

Quoted and Reported Speech Asking Questions

Phrasal Verbs Classifying

Predicting

Analyzing

Direct Instruction

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When to Practice Grammar

● Schema Building

● Vocabulary

● Grammatical forms and functions

● Informational/ Fictional Text

● Analysis

● Writing process 9

Practice grammar at all points of a lesson.

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Schema Building

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Essential Question:What do you do for fun?

Tie the whole lesson together with this question.

Target Form: Past Tense

Target Function: Talking about Past Events

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Schema Building

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What did you do this past weekend?

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Schema Building

Prompt: Compare and Contrast what you did last weekend to what you did two weekends ago (last, last weekend).

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Last weekend Last, Last Weekend

Dance class

Friend’s birthday party

Art

Homework

Dance Class

Visited my friend

Zoo

Homework

Friend’s birthday party

Art

Visited my friend

Zoo

Dance Class

Homework

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Vocabulary

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Past Tense: Regular Verbs

Present Tense Verb Past Tense Verb

open opened

walk walked

want wanted

need needed

live lived

jumps jumped

plays played

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Vocabulary

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Past Tense: Irregular Verbs

Present Tense Verb Past Tense Verb

is was

are were

go went

have had

do did

buys bought

teaches taught

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Vocabulary

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Past Tense: Phrasal Verbs

Present Tense Verb Past Tense Verb

figure out figured out

hand in handed in

put down put down

throw away threw away

turn off/ turn on turned off/ turned on

look up looked up

make up made up

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Vocabulary: Activities & Strategies

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● Activity: Grammar Yes/No

● From Speak to Write:

○ Bingo

○ Concentration - present and past matches

○ Scattergories

○ Picture This

Yes No

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● Indirect Teaching○ Examples: Present vs. Past○ Deductive Reasoning○ Time Markers

● Direct Teaching○ Rules

■ add -ed■ y -----> -ied■ e -----> -d■ spelling change

Grammar Form/ Function

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I do homework every night.

I did homework last weekend.

NowLast Weekend

dodid

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● Noticing: highlight past

tense verbs

● What do you notice?

● Discussion

● Identify: regular,

irregular, phrasal verbs

in past tense

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Grammar Form/ Function

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● Corrections: present tense to past tense verbs

● Rewrite sentences/ paragraph

● Interview Questions○ Who, what, where, when, how, why

■ Topic: about weekends

■ Use did you/ didn’t you

■ Use regular, irregular, and phrasal past tense verbs

● Use sentence frames

Grammar: Activities & Strategies

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It is a warm September morning. I walk through the big door at the front of my new school. I do not see even one student that I know. I feel nervous. I see the principal. He looks at me and says, “Good morning.” I feel more nervous.

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Sentence Frames

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Grammar: Activities & Strategies

Today vs. Yesterday

List of verbs/ chart / images

Today _____________________.

Yesterday __________________.

*Future and present progressive use is okay

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Grammar: Activities & Strategies

Stretchy Sentences

PPT images of actions

Present tense

Past tense action

Past tense action description

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Grammar: Activities & Strategies

Cloze Activity: past tense verbs

Listening: Finish the story

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Grammar: Activities & Strategies

Phrasal Verb Practice: use in a new context

Present Tense Verb Past Tense Verb

try on tried on

write down wrote down

hand in handed in

put down put down

throw away threw away

figure out figured out

turn off / turn on turned off/ turned on

take off took off

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Grammar: Activities & Strategies

Sentence in a Round

pick

a

card

Race for Sentences

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● Fictional Stories in Past Tense

● News Articles

● Noticing and Discuss the Verbs○ From the verbs make predictions

■ Later during analysis- confirm the predictions

Working with Text

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● Sequencing / Plot

● Sentence Strips- reorder them

● Draw comic strips/ storyboard

● Post its/ index cards

Analysis

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● Character

● Retell from a character’s point of view○ Use sentence frames

Analysis

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● Confirming Predictions○ Prediction (present tense)

○ Confirming predictions (past tense)

● Use sentence frames

Analysis

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Before Reading:

I predict ____________________.

After Reading:

I predicted __________________.

My prediction was/were not correct because__________________________.

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● Main Idea/ Details

● Comprehension Check

● Ask peers: Questions with who, what, where, when,

why, and how

● All in past tense

Analysis

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Writing

● Retell the story ○ Character’s point of view

● Write a fictional story in past tense○ Provide an image○ Have students draw an image or

create a PPT slide○ Narrative: What you did last

weekend● Proofreading

○ Highlight all the verbs - self edit○ Peer edit

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Speaking

● Image based story-telling

● Lines of Communication/ Fluency

Lines

● Presentations

● Assess students on use of past

tense

● Students do a simple self

assessment

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Review

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Meaningful

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Hands-On English (K-1)

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EnglishMats (K-5)

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Carousel of IDEAS (K-5)

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Frames for Fluency (K-12)

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Champion of IDEAS (6-12)

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Pre-K to 12 English and Spanish Proficiency Tests

Ideal for:● Pre-K & Headstart programs● Dual language programs● Identification, placement & program

decisions● Annual & progress monitoring● Redesignation

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Consultation

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