As students develop and share their photovoice projects, they will have opportunities to use descriptive language. This can be a rich avenue for them to both tap into their familiar communicative resources and expand their current repertoires. Students can work with peers or Google Translate to translate descriptive words and phrases from their home language. Likewise, teachers can provide word banks with "stretch words" that help expand students' descriptive vocabularies in English and their home language.
Teachers can also encourage students to keep track of new words and phrases they encounter in their reading, discussions, and writing with bilingual word journals. There are numerous templates teachers can provide to support students in documenting and internalizing new descriptive language.
As students enhance their lexical repertoire (their vocabularies), they can apply this into extended discourse with peer support. The Stronger and Clearer protocol is a way for students to engage in dialogue with one another and refine their communication in preparation for a summative composition or presentation.Â
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