Creating an Environment Where Language Flourishes
- A Resource for Elementary Classroom Teachers
How can you support students to craft connected messages? What skills do they need at the word, sentence and discourse level to reach a higher level of linguistic competency? What scaffold would you need to provide students at different language levels?
Build on skills throughout the year that increase the linguistic ability of your students to connect ideas together.
Think about a lesson you are currently teaching where you can provide students an opportunity to expand upon their message/answer/ sharing.
What do your students need to expand their ideas into a paragraph? What oral support can you provide so students develop fluency in paragraph thinking and writing?
Reflect upon the skills needed for your students to expand ideas from paragraph into larger output pieces such as essays, article, reports, web pages...
