Spanish
A support to try with Spanish-speaking students. It is a hypothesis for this lesson, not a description of every student.
Sentence
English usually puts the describing word before the noun.
Students may write “the ball red” because the adjective often follows the noun in Spanish.
Support: Say the color or size, then the noun: “the red ball.” Put that pair on the frame.
Sentence
English needs a form of be in the present.
“The soil dry” leaves out is.
Support: Frame: “The ___ is ___. ” Practice it with the lesson’s noun and the lesson’s adjective.
Sentence
Actual and actualmente are not the same idea.
A student may read actual as “happening now.”
Support: In the sentence, gloss actual as real. Gloss currently when the text means now.
Listening
English questions often start with a question word or with do, does, or did.
The useful clue is in the first three words of the stem.
Support: Before the audio, read the stem’s first three words and name the job: who, what, why, or which.
Left alone
- The vowel in ship and sheep
- A rolled r
- Rhythm that differs from a classmate’s