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• Welcome udentstotheir r Grade2LanguageDive.Writethistermon the board.
• Ask:“What do you think a Language Dive is? I’ll give you some time to discuss this with your partners.”
• After providing time and inviting responses, write udent ideas on the board. (A Language Dive is a conversation about a sentence from a complex text. Students dive beneath the surface of the sentence to under and how the phrases, the ructures, and the details create the meaning of the entire sentence. They discuss how the sentence is important to the text and to writing.)
• If productive, use a Goal 1 Conversation Cue to encourage udents to clarify the conversation about Language Dives:
“So, do you mean _____?” (Responses will vary.)
Decon ruct
• Tell udents about the r ep in the Decon ruct age:
“When we do a Language Dive, r we read the sentence. We talk about what we think it means and how it might help us under and our focus que ion.”
• Placeyour ngerbythissentencefrompage17:
Vashti splashed her colors with a bigger brush on bigger paper to make bigger
dots.
• Invite udentstochorallyreaditaloudtogether,followingalongwithyour nger.
• Ask:“What is the meaning of this sentence?” (Responses will vary.)
“How does this Language Dive help you under and how Vashti’s feelings
changed at the end of the ory? (Responses will vary.)
• Afterinvitingresponses,writeanddisplay udentideas.
• Ifnecessary,followaprocesssimilartotheonebelowforeachkeywordin the sentence that is unfamiliar to udents.
• Tell udentsthatunder andingsometrickywords r canhelpthempre- pare to focus on the meaning and importance of each chunk.
• Say:“There is a word in this sentence you might not know: splashed. Place your nger on splashed. When you splash you make liquid like water go all over!”
• Pretendtosplash udentswithwaterorhavethemshareatimewhenthey got splashed.
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