ESOL STRATEGIES FOR WRITING/LANGUAGE ARTS!!! Strategy 22

Strategy 22: Syntax Surgery

Next Generation Sunshine State Standards:

---

LA.5.1.6.2 The student will listen to, read, and discuss familiar and conceptually challenging text; 

Common Core Standards:

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.5.4c Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.

ESOL Standards:
10) Analyze student language and determine appropriate instructional strategies, using knowledge of phonology, morphology, syntax semantics, and discourse.

STEP BY STEP

1. Identify a problematic sentence
2. write the sentence and initiate the "surgery"
3. rearrange the words
4. practice more sentences with the same pattern
5. time the lessons

ESOL students may encounter sentences that are hard to understand because of the order in which words are said. for this activity the students will have sentence strips that they will cut and rearrange to make better sense.