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21 Ideas for Teaching Writing

Improving ESL Learners' Writing Skills

Strategies to Guide Students to Success on the CASAS FWA

Implementing the Reading-Writing Connection

Integrating Reading and Writing into Adult ESL Instruction

Using Multicultural Children's Literature in Adult ESL Classes

Some Pre-writing Techniques

Helpful Tips for Reading Comprehension

Teaching the Writing Process to Adult Learners

What Does the Research Say?

Web Links:

The Power of Writing, The Writing of Power: Approaches to Adult ESOL Writing Instruction

Developing Ideas for Writing--Pre Writing

The Process Writing Method

Connecting Reading and Writing in College EFL Courses

Here is the goal setting template that Sheramy is sharing with all of you. Goal Setting

She said that she would like to include conversation activities in the future.

She also explained that she has a great visual depicting goal setting that she uses in class. I'd like to see that—we should get her to share that, too!

Thanks to Dawnne, we have this new, virtual, forum. Let's be part of the information-technology-boom and utilize this forum.

Are there any questions out there that we want to discuss here?

Tünde

If you'd like any other categories than the three offered here, just let me know.

Thank you, Lynda!

These are links and other resources either used in the course or recommended by other participants of the course. Be sure to look at the last item in the resources document by the course instructor Diana Satin!
CESOL Links
CESOL Resources

This is a 20-page paper which surveys current (2002) and best practice in the integration of technology into ESL instruction for adults. It includes extensive references, computer programs, instructional videos, and Webiography.
Integrating Technology

The following is a 10-page article on integrating technology into adult learning covering both benefits and limitations of four basic approaches: technology as curriculum, as delivery mechanism, as complement to instruction, and instructional tool.
IT Adult Learning

The rest are a template, sample lessons, and a couple of rubrics.
Template for Lesson Plan
Lesson Plan on Commands
Lesson Plan on Present to Past
Lesson Plan on Scrambled Questions
Lesson Plan on Scrambled Sentences
Rubric for Lesson Plan Development
Activity Evaluation Rubric

• You can use Power Point to develop lessons for your student or you can use it to have your student create presentations based on the lessons taught.

• Student and Tutor can work together to create a Power Point or skills can be taught in advance and then a project developed based on the platform you are using. For example a general lesson on how to use basic Powerpoint and then let the student create a powerpoint based on their homework or another assigned project. Early book reports, words with pictures, (for students with Dyslexia)creating visuals for the, and, to

• Here I have created a presentation based on some of the most common words from list 1 in Reading Horizons.

• Then go to Wetpaint to the Pre-GED website and post something about it (create a link)

• From there to Twitter. Under share this email to everyone in the class, twitter, etc.

• Photos- Now and then

• There is no limit and the students themselves will come up with amazing creative ways of using technology.

After they spend quite awhile getting to know each other, I go through an extensive introduction of myself, showing them with maps where I was born, went to school, went to college, pictures of my daughters, grandchildren, countries I have visited, hobbies, etc. They especially like me cutting up the copy of my wedding photo when I explain to them that I am now divorced.