The Proficiency in Sentence Writing Strategy training provided several additional tips and ideas that I can use to increase student engagement and make the strategy feel more active and meaningful in my classroom. I especially appreciated the practical suggestions for incorporating movement, repetition, and quick review activities rather than relying solely on traditional written practice.
One idea that particularly caught my attention was using a FANBOYS cheer to help students remember the coordinating conjunctions. My special education co-teacher is also our school's cheer coach, so I may be able to convince the cheer team to create and record a short FANBOYS cheer that we could use with students. I think this could be a fun and memorable way to reinforce the strategy while giving students a different way to interact with the material.
We are also planning to create a wheel of formulas that we can use for quick activities at the end of class. Students could spin the wheel and complete a sentence-writing task based on the formula selected. This would provide a simple way to build frequent review into our classes without making it feel like another formal assignment. The training gave me several practical ideas for making sentence writing more engaging while still maintaining the structure and consistency that make the strategy effective.
One idea that particularly caught my attention was using a FANBOYS cheer to help students remember the coordinating conjunctions. My special education co-teacher is also our school's cheer coach, so I may be able to convince the cheer team to create and record a short FANBOYS cheer that we could use with students. I think this could be a fun and memorable way to reinforce the strategy while giving students a different way to interact with the material.
We are also planning to create a wheel of formulas that we can use for quick activities at the end of class. Students could spin the wheel and complete a sentence-writing task based on the formula selected. This would provide a simple way to build frequent review into our classes without making it feel like another formal assignment. The training gave me several practical ideas for making sentence writing more engaging while still maintaining the structure and consistency that make the strategy effective.