A forum to share teaching tips, handouts, syllabi, lesson plans and more! Make Beliefs Comix, created by acclaimed 'Make Beliefs' author Bill Zimmerman, allows kids to create their own comics in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, or Latin. This article from the National Center for Learning Disabilities, featured on LD OnLine, discusses dysgraphia and its warning signs, as well as strategies for addressing it for different age groups. Reading Rockets webcast featuring Dr. Writing in English is intimidating for ESL students. These ESL writing activities make writing fun and easy, and provide students with the support they need. Once upon a time, I was teaching an ESL class full of teenagers in a quiet, northern Thai town.They were ready to write, I was sure. Writing activities. On these pages you will find ideas for classroom activities which involve writing. This activity introduces them to some English text. Steven Graham, Dr. Louisa Moats, and Dr. Susan Neuman. These three renowned reading and writing experts address why writing is important, what the latest research tells us, and what educators and parents can do to support our children's development as writers. Use picture books to teach young writers how to organize plot logically. Alex b nebula programs. This article includes examples of basic plot structures, along with picture books that use those structures. This article from My Child Magazine, featured on Reading Rockets, offers samples of different styles of letters (from thank-you notes to letters to Santa) and style guidelines that children can follow. This site lets you create your own handouts of words that students can practice writing. The paper is lined and the word is outlined in small dot print. Good for ELL students developing initial literacy skills. ReadWriteThink offers a variety of fun, interactive writing activities, including the Comic Creator. Students can fill in comics with their own words and storylines. A poetry site designed to assist instruction of ESL students in poetry and other creative writing forms. The site has links and detailed information on poetry such as Cinquain, Diamante, Haiku and Limericks. It also has further information on other types of creative writing and tips for instruction. These graphic organizers can be used to prepare for a five-paragraph essay, organize sentences in a paragraph, map concepts and events, compare topics with a Venn Diagram, organize notes for a presentation, create a double-entry journal, and much more. Writing skills lesson plans • Author: Jackie McAvoy Level: Intermediate, Upper intermediate Type: Teaching notes To raise awareness of the type of language used in advertising. • Author: Jackie McAvoy Level: Intermediate, Upper intermediate Type: Teaching notes To help students produce writing with a higher occurrence of lexical variation, complex sentences and appropriate use of passive structures. • Author: Jackie McAvoy Level: Intermediate, Upper intermediate Type: Teaching notes To encourage the use of phrases which express attitude and emotion in a factual letter. • Author: Lexy Holt Level: Intermediate, Upper intermediate Type: Teaching notes To bring attention to the need for lexical variation in a good essay and to increase range of cause and effect phrases and topic related vocabulary. • Author: Jackie McAvoy Level: Intermediate, Upper intermediate Type: Teaching notes An enjoyable one-/two-hour lesson as a basis for writing a fable. Students produce an original fable, using narrative target language. • Author: Lindsay Clandfield Level: Pre-intermediate, Intermediate, Upper intermediate Type: Teaching notes Students learn about mini sagas and try to write one themselves. • Author: Jackie McAvoy Level: Intermediate, Upper intermediate, Advanced Type: Teaching notes To teach and practise language relevant to writing a statistical report • Author: Jackie McAvoy Level: Intermediate, Upper intermediate, Advanced Type: Teaching notes To enable students to break down the different features of formal and informal English by working through a step-by-step text transformation at their own pace. • Author: Adrian Tennant Level: Intermediate, Upper intermediate Type: Teaching notes This lesson looks at a few techniques for ‘thinking’ about writing. There are 3 tasks: brainstorming, loop writing and speed writing. • Author: Karen Richardson Type: General lesson plan In this lesson by Karen Richardson, students work collaboratively to produce a class newsletter.
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