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What's your essay about?

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Parent Support

Work on the structure of your essay.

Encourage students to bring in items from home to discuss or write on. Have parents participate in this.

Provide a translator for school meetings

Develop the ideas presented in the introduction.

Parents should be encouraged to participate and volunteer in the classroom

Create a catchy introductory paragraph.

Take into consideration the interests of your audience.

Thesis Statement

Choose the strongest idea to build your essay around.

Summarize the direction you want to follow with this essay into the thesis statement.

Informative sentences

Sentence

Provide details on the subject.


Write a couple of sentences that provide details on the subject you will address in the body of your essay.

First sentence

Write an engaging first sentence.


Did you discover any interesting anecdotes, quotes, or trivial facts while researching your topic? Use them to write your sentence.

Dual Language Strategies

Analyze another essay written on this topic

Find at least one example and see whether it is well written or not.

Students can write in their L1 first

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of the essay which you're going to analyze.

Students can use artistic/creative talents to demonstrate learning

Is the logical sequence of the essay accurate or faulty?

Select an option:

Students can have an opportunity to collaborate with peer L1 learners and L1 learners with other languages

Differentiate learning tasks to include interests of all learners in the classroom

Benefits

Research your topic

Write down the sources you will base your essay on.

Mother tongue promotion in the school helps develop not only the mother tongue but also children’s abilities in the majority school language.

List second-hand information :

comments, interpretations, or discussions regarding the original material, etc.

http://www.lavplu.eu/central/bibliografie/cummins_eng.pdf

What secondary source(s) will you take into account for your research?

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or

Add hyperlinks to your source(s).

The level of development of children’s mother tongue is a strong predictor of their second language development.

Bilingualism has positive effects on children’s linguistic and educational development

List first-hand information :

• historical and legal documents
• eyewitness accounts
• results of experiments
• statistical data
• pieces of creative writing