After last week's field trip to Black Creek Pioneer Village, I wanted to have my students do some writing. Coelho, Cummins and their contemporaries have long sung the praises of visual and oral scaffolding for English Language Learners (ELLs) before they write, and one of my favourite and most versatile instructional strategies for these students is Picture Word Induction Model (PWM). What better way, then, to review the relevant vocabulary from our trip and write about it, than to collect some words next to a few photos from the trip first, followed by a few sentences about our adventures?
And here is a sampling of what we got...
"Something that surprised me was that at the school house, if they being bad in the school they will make you wear the dunce cap."
"It was interesting that the printer use ink to make a picter, and also it was cool when the doctor have different tools. I learned that pioneer were different cotht."
"Something that surprised me was how even the animals had a job to do. I leaned that Early Settlers had to be always working."
"Something I learned was that they don't have elekchrasite."
"I learned that the piners can't get up at 9 in the night to go to the outhouse, so they use a, pot. When it's morning the youngest has to throw it away. I also learnd thet there towlet is only a whole in the grownd with a buoket on top. (Because they had no letirisety)"
"I was surprised that the farm are stinky"
"Something that surprised me was that at the school house, if they being bad in the school they will make you wear the dunce cap."
"It was interesting that the printer use ink to make a picter, and also it was cool when the doctor have different tools. I learned that pioneer were different cotht."
"Something that surprised me was how even the animals had a job to do. I leaned that Early Settlers had to be always working."
"Something I learned was that they don't have elekchrasite."
"I learned that the piners can't get up at 9 in the night to go to the outhouse, so they use a, pot. When it's morning the youngest has to throw it away. I also learnd thet there towlet is only a whole in the grownd with a buoket on top. (Because they had no letirisety)"
"I was surprised that the farm are stinky"
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