The teacher leads a sentence building activity to help students improve their understanding of English grammar. She begins with the simple sentence "A kit fox has ears" and shows how to make it more complex by adding adjectives. She translates the basic and complex sentences into Russian and Japanese, languages spoken by emergent bilingual students. By comparing the sentences across languages, students see that adjectives have similar placements before nouns in English, Russian, and Japanese. This helps emergent bilinguals feel included and makes the grammar lesson more meaningful, while also developing all students' metalinguistic awareness of different languages.