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Language is Expansive and Unpredictable
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I’m curious to know from people doing untargeted instruction and invisibles: you all still target the super seven or sweet sixteen and various TPR verbs at the beginning of the year, right? Before you go head-on into untargeted stories, right? If so, at what point do you feel like your students are ready to move on from targeting the super 7 or sweet 16 and move into untargeted stories? Thanks!
OK Sean, I had a few weeks this past winter with Ben on this very topic. I kept saying to him, but don;t we need to target high-frequency words at the beginning of the year? He eventually convinced me that we can’t talk without high-frequency words; that is why they are high-frequency. So this year, I have just dived right into One Word Images and using TPR (more like gesturing) to support their comprehension. And so far, it is working. I feel a different tone in my classes. So, my thinking right now is to trust that the sweet words will come up in my instruction as I talk for the rest of the year.
Sean I don’t target specific verbs and it works. I wonder what would happen if I did. It certainly wouldn’t hurt. I think both ways are o.k. I know there are some folks out there who insist on targeting certain verbs. Good for them!
Sean. This second year teacher has never consciously used the super 7 or the sweet 16. They would come out during pqs when I would force myself to do it a whole period! Or when I would write up stories for t ghost em from freewrites and my word wall.
I have begun to do emergent stories with my level 1 students to weeks ago which was week 4.
Thanks for the replies. I think I’m going to target the super 7s or maybe even up through the sweet 16s as I continue to do OWIs. The general CI dynamic of the class is still novel for my students, being that we’ve only had 2 weeks, and so targeting, I think, is working well. Kids love to have the talliers too, and I can create a lot of suspense at the beginning of class by talking about who “wants” or “has” a tallier, and if I will “give” the tallier to someone. I know that will wear down soon though and I’ll do away with the talliers altogether in a few weeks, probably, if not sooner.