{"id":1499,"date":"2013-09-06T18:33:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T18:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2013-09-11T16:51:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T16:51:32","slug":"thinking-sentence-transformation-vocabulary-development-across-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=1499","title":{"rendered":"A Thinking Process \u2022 Sentence Transformation
vocabulary development across languages<\/br><\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sentence Transformation for Vocabulary Development
\n<\/strong>a collaborative method to increase vocabulary, fluency and ideas
\n<\/em>\"\"<\/a>This method was recently included as part of the leadership training with principals from 33 government schools part of the Initiative Africa<\/a> All Children Read Grant. The training foundation was using the Growing Thinking Schools Inside Out handbook to provide a framework for whole school change.\u00a0The 2 day hands-on session (see previous blog posting)<\/a> including visual mapping (Thinking Maps\u00ae), reflective questioning, collaborative learning and structuring environment. In addition specific reading strategies, such as Sentence Transformation, were incorporated into the training.<\/p>\n

Description\u00a0<\/strong>Sentence Transformation for Vocabulary Development is a collaborative method to build vocabulary from prior knowledge, readings, schema connections, and peer to peer learning. Sentence Transformation models and develops reading fluency, vocabulary, parts of grammar (nouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, etc.), langauge and spelling patterns and collaborative learning. This strategy is applicable for beginning readers through secondary school. The lower grades learning patterns of language, while the upper grades explore expanding on quality writing to develop vocabulary and their own voice from master writers.
\ndownload the brief handout<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n