Conventions of Language: Scaffolding Learning From 1.75
Indicators of Progress
- Students bring together and use more frequently conventions of language including imperatives and simple question forms, linking sentences in larger meaning units and with the correct use of past tense for regular verbs and the plurals of nouns.
- Students show an appropriate use of grammar, including the consistent use of tense and connectives such as but, so, because, and if to link ideas.
Teaching Strategies
Before speaking and listening: Getting your knowledge ready
The learning and teaching approach for speaking and listening is illustrated for students responding to the serial story Little Obie and the Flood written by Martin Waddell and published by Walker Books Ltd, London in 1991.
Use tense in storytelling
Students identify the tense that they will use to talk about the story. They list the verbs they are considering using. For each verb, they identify both the past and present tenses.
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Verbs |
Present tense |
Past tense |
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wear |
I am wearing … |
I wore … |
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look |
I am looking … |
I looked … |