G3 EAL In Class Support

This week our Grade 3 students began to create their stories.
In Miss Erika's and Miss Anita'sclassrooms, the children learned how to generate lists of characters and draw mindmaps of places for the stories. Our students enjoyed exploring their memories of long and not so long ago and discovering the special moments that triggered natural story flow. 

Colorful mindmaps helped our students to draft their stories.

Rich discussions in Miss Erika's classrooms.

Listening and reading various stories in Miss Anita's room.

All our students listened to various wonderful stories and had rich discussions about the features and elements that they can use in their own writing.

Several strategies were modeled for the students to upgrade their editing skills. A lesson about paragraphs took place in Miss Lisa's classroom. The children listened to the story The Boy Who Cried "Wolf!". After the students had a discussion about paragraphs, they had to assemble the story that was cut into paragraph strips and shared the results with a partner. When all the children completed the activity the reflection session took place. Our students had to share what they noticed and what they wondered about the story and while assembling the text. We also had a chance to remind our students about the story structure.

Vincent and his partner assembling the story.

All the mention above learning engagements had a common goal of unpacking the writing process for our students. Next week we will continue developing the writing skills of our Grade 3 English learners.