This month I am sharing stories from
classrooms in Berwyn South District 100.
Day 20: Sentence Patterning with Parisa Asgharzadeh (1st Bilingual at Pershing)
Writing complete sentences is so hard for students. Teachers often make comments about how their students struggle with writing on a sentence level. Parisa Asgharzadeh might have a lesson for you! It's a GLAD strategy called sentence patterning.
She gathered her students on the carpet, and they used a noun from their community helpers unit to get them started. In this case, it was a fireman. They then generated lists of adjectives, verbs, and prepositional phrases that would match a firefighter. When they were done listing them, they practicing putting those pieces into complete sentences using oral language. In this case, they put it to music. :). Here's a link to a clip of their song.
After they orally rehearsed multiple sentences using the anchor chart, she modeled using the words to write about a fireman. The students watched, and then she released them to their own independent writing.
In this chart from a previous sentence patterning lesson, you can see that you can take it to the next level by making the noun plural, and then changing the adjectives and verbs to match! What a great language lesson for our students to see.
Parisa did this lesson for us while Manuel Escamilla, coauthor of Biliteracy From the Start, was in her classroom on a site visit! Thanks for welcoming us into your classroom to watch a shared writing lesson that focuses on grammar, yet directly applied their learning to independent practice. Since this lesson occurred, Parisa has now become the Assistant Principal of Pershing, so I am glad we caught the lesson when we did! Congrats, Ms. Asgharzadeh.
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