Learning Logs are a low-prep, highly transferable, and easily adaptable strategy that helps students process new learning and make personal connections to their learning through writing.
Category: ELL
Stronger & Clearer: A Partnership Protocol
The Stronger & Clearer protocol incorporates oral rehearsal, peer feedback, and revision into the writing process. Check out the steps to try this partnership protocol in your own classroom.
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Oracy: What & How
Have you ever read a student’s writing and thought, they write the way they talk? Find out how oracy development supports students to write in more sophisticated ways.
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Supporting English Language Learners: From The Archives
I'm always searching for ways to support English Language Learners in writing. Luckily, there’s a wealth of resources from the Two Writing Teachers archive to give me a boost! I’ve collected some of my favorites from years past, and I’m sharing them with you.
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Getting to Know You: Building Classroom Community Through Shared Writing
Get to know each student and build classroom community with this beginning-of-the year shared writing activity that also includes language development for multilingual learners.
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Linguistic Transfer and Multilingual Writers: Straight from the Classroom
Linguistic transfer occurs naturally for multilingual writers. Bilingual alphabet charts are one way to help students recognize the positive and negative transfer between English and other languages.
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Found Poetry
Looking for a way to launch poetry writing or integrate poetry into your content studies? Try found poetry, a GLAD strategy that scaffolds free verse poetry writing for students, including multilingual learners and reluctant writers.
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Sentence Patterning Charts
How do you teach students what a sentence is? The Sentence Patterning Chart, a strategy from Project GLAD, makes teaching sentences concrete and fun. Try singing sentences with your students and see for yourself!
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Wait Just a Second!
What if I told you that you could drastically improve student engagement and learning in just a matter of seconds and with little to no prep time? You can with the power of WAIT TIME!
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Over-Scaffolding: Beware of the Temptation!
We went into teaching to support students with learning. Sometimes, though, our well-intentioned supports can get in the way of learning and growing.
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Language-Focused Strategy Groups: Supporting Language Learning in Writing Workshop
Do you have ELL students in your classroom? Support their language development within the writing workshop with language-focused strategy groups!
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Chants for Writing: Support Routines, Conventions, and Craft
Chants are a highly engaging teaching strategy that support multilingual and monolingual learners alike. Try them out for teaching routines, conventions, and craft in writing workshop.
