Completion

I have successfully completed the Canvas modules in The Fundamentals in the Sentence Writing Strategy, marking my readiness to implement these strategies in the small group setting of my junior high self-contained instructional classroom for students with various learning challenges.

Completed the Canvas module for The Fundamentals in Sentence Writing Strategy. I am implementing this strategy for students with various learning profiles in a small group setting (1-2 students).  

These students have benefited from having a systematic approach to teaching sentence construction that offers them scaffolded and repeated practice in identifying and writing sentences of various types. For the younger students, we spent the first few weeks focused solely on the parts of a sentence as even the terms "subject", "noun", and "verb" were new learning for them. Having a visual in along with the metacognitive component of checking that their own sentences are complete has been important. The students have also benefited from having a goal and action steps toward achieving it, so the pace of the learning is tailored to them. Introducing the students to the various types of simple sentences has helped the older students generate writing that is clear and more descriptive.

request feedback

This will be great for interventions for students that struggle with writing. 

The students in my class have excelled with this program.  They are doing much better at writing sentences and paragraphs.  I can't wait to see how my summer school does with Proficiencies.

I can see where the explicit instruction of writing sentences could benefit many of our struggling students!

Pam Lietzel, instructor can confirm that I completed this at Burns Middle School in Lawndale, NC