Correct Response: B. According to WIDA's 2012 Amplification of the English Language Development Standards, Kindergarten–Grade 12 (Social and Instructional Language Standard 1), second-grade English learners at the developing level should be able to produce statements about working collaboratively in small groups using oral sentence starters and models. Sentence starters are stems or partial sentences used to prompt students to complete the sentence. They provide a frame for students to use in expressing an idea or answering a question. For example, in the context of the class snack bar, oral sentence starters might be "My job is to _______________ ." and "We all worked together to _______________ ." To help English learners progress to higher levels of academic language proficiency, SEI teachers can challenge them with sentence starters that are just above their current language level. A is incorrect because, although sentence frames provide almost-complete sentences to which students add details, writing and then reciting them aloud does not provide students with the opportunity to participate in collaborative interpersonal or small-group communication. Neither does asking the students to make drawings or pictorial representations of the class snack bar and their individual roles and then presenting a "show and tell" (C), or reciting to students simple sentences about the class snack bar and cooperation and then having students repeat back the sentences (D).
