7 Easy Ways to Support Student Writing in Any Content Area
More teachers are being asked to support student literacy in all content areas. For those trained in English language arts, this isn’t a big deal. But if you have spent your career learning best practices in science, social studies, physical education, music, math, or one of many other content areas, the idea of “teaching” students how to write on top of covering your own content may seem impossible. Good news: It’s not all that complicated, and it doesn’t have to be time-consuming, either. You don’t need an English degree to get really good at helping students build writing proficiency in your content area.
Writing Topics
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Writing Games and Activities
Most of these writing activities and games can be integrated right into your lesson. Most can be used with whatever content you are teaching them on that day. Many incorporate not only writing, but speaking and other skills as well. Follow the link to watch the activity on video. Pass the marker Most levels; writing vocabulary, speaking, listeningSprite Elementary+; writing vocabulary, speaking, listeningSentence relay Elementary+; writing sentences, speakingEssay writing Elementary+; writing basic essays, drawingComics I Middle school+; writing comicsComics II Middle school+; writing comicsMind maps Middle school+; writingDictations Elementary+; writing sentences, listeningWriting rearrange Most levels; writing sentences, speakingWriting relay Elementary-middle school; writing, speaking, listeningGive them a letter Most levels; writing vocabulary, speaking, listening Specific writing activities
5 Inspiring TED Talks To Transform Your English Class - The Teaching Cove
It’s no secret that TED talks are all the rage in the English classroom. So, why write a teaching tips post about them if everyone uses them anyway? Well, I really believe that it’s not just about turning on Youtube or TED and letting your students listen.
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Working holiday This is more of a warmer idea this week. Have you ever wondered about the contradictions in terms like 'found missing', 'alone together', 'small crowd' & one of my favourites 'Microsoft Works'? Have your students? These terms are called oxymorons. As the Collins English Dictionary says, they are 'an epigrammatic effect, by which contradictory terms are used in conjunction: beautiful tyrant; found missing.
Utveckla skrivandet på engelska
Pobble Här hittar ni en ny bild varje dag och en massa skrivövningar som hör till bilden: Giant Tennis Story starter It was the greatest match the world had ever seen!
L.I.F.T. – an effective writing-proficiency and metacognition enhancer
Many years ago, as an L2 college student writer of English and French I often had doubts about the accuracy of what I wrote in my essays, especially when I was trying out a new and complex grammar structure or an idiom I had heard someone use. However, the busy and under-paid native-speaker university language assistants charged with correcting my essays rarely gave me useful feedback on those adventurous linguistic exploits of mine. They simply underlined or crossed out my mistakes and provided their correct alternative. As an inquisitive and demanding language learner I was not satisfied. I wanted more. So, I decided to try out a different approach; in every essay of mine I asked my teachers questions about things I was not sure about, in annotations I would write in the margin of my essays (e.g. should I use ‘with’ or ‘by’ here?
ESL Teaching Materials for Writing
ESL Writing Exercises- Worksheets for Writing Teach Kids to Read with Phonics - Games, Videos, Worksheeets Give your students further practice with English grammar through writing exercises. We offer a good number of writing worksheets on this site. There are printable composition writing templates, sentence scrambles , gap fill exercises, word scrambles, picture description and more which have been broken down into beginner, intermediate and high level writing exercises. Almost all you need to give your English students good writing practice.
Larry Ferlazzo - Online tools
These include The Best Web Tools For English Language Learners (In Other Words, The Ones My Students Regularly Use) and The Best Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced English Language Learner Sites. Now, though, I think it's time to narrow them down to my choices for the "best of the best" or, in other words, an "All-Time Best" list. Here are my choices, and I hope readers will let me know if they agree, disagree, and/or think I've missed some (one key requirement is that they are all free to use). Some of the sites I list could go in multiple categories, but I have placed them in the "domains" I believe they help the most:
The town - The city - Vocabulary - Activities
"The 2057 documentary is a 3 part series by the Discovery Channel. It's a an entertaining documentary about life in 50 years. The city episode shows us how much city life will be incredibly interconnected. The extreme interconnection has risks however which we must avoid before problems occur."
Anna's wet day out
Find a picture of the hero of your story in a magazine or on the internet, big enough for your teaching situation. Procedure Stage 1: Brainstorming Write the title 'Anna's wet day out' at the top of the board. Check students understand the meaning.Divide your board into four quarters and title these: 'Anna', 'Day out', 'What happened' and 'The end'.Show students the picture and ask the following questions: How old is she? Where is she from?
