ELL WRITING STRATEGIES: SIMPLE METHODS TO SUPPORT WRITING IN YOUR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS – NEIU COURSE

(15 ISBE Clock Hours) This course will explain the importance of writing practice for English Language Learners and provide strategies and methods you can incorporate throughout lessons and across content areas. You will learn 6 methods to supporting writing specific to improving literacy in English Language Learners and will plan for how to implement those strategies into your existing lesson plans. You will design an action plan for your classroom, develop an additional resource to support your plan, and analyze research to support implementation in the classroom. The course ends with you designing an implementation plan designed to ensure you are successfully incorporating the lesson concepts, ideas, and resources into a future lesson.

COURSE DETAILS:
  • Total Price: $85

  • Credit Type: ISBE Clock Hours

  • Credits: 15 ISBE Clock Hours

  • 20 High-Quality Resources Provided with the Course

CONTENT AREAS:

  • ELA, Reading/ Writing
  • English Language Learners
  • Lesson & Curriculum Planning
  • Teaching Strategies
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Course Objectives & What You Will Learn in this Course:

What You Will Learn

  • About the struggle ELL students have in different content areas, and how writing plays a role in all content areas

  • Six simple strategies that can support the writing skills of ELLs across all content areas

  • How to best monitor the progress of your ELLs

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Course Guiding Question:

Course Guiding Questions

Regardless of my content area, what kind of writing support can I provide to my ELL students?

Great course for supporting ELLs!

I am currently working on renewing my teaching certification with plans to teach 2nd grade next year. This course gave me a good overview of strategies for incorporating writing instruction into all content areas within my classroom. I will definitely use what I learned in my classroom next year!

-Elementary Teacher

 15 ISBE Clock Hours

At the conclusion of this course, you will earn 15 ISBE clock hours, including a signed ISBE certificate.

Continuing Education hours through Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) are offered as ISBE clock hours and indicated as continuing education clock hours on a University provided certificate. Although offered in partnership with NEIU, they do not result in graduate- level or academic credit and cannot be used toward a degree program. These courses are primarily intended for recertification or re-licensure and continuing education for teachers in the state of Illinois.

Northeastern Illinois University is regionally accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. It is recognized as an approved provider of ISBE clock hours by the state of Illinois.

Course Sections

Topics Covered and General Course Outline

Section 1 – ELL Proficiency Levels

  • About the struggle ELL students have in different content areas, and how writing plays a role in all content areas.
  • Six simple strategies that can support the writing skills of ELLs across all content areas.
  • How to best monitor the progress of your ELLs.

Section 2 – Support Strategies

  • That strategies such as buddy writing, daily writing, and interactive writing are great ways to improve the writing fluency and confidence of ELLs.
  • How exposing students to quality mentor texts and providing them with sentence stems or frames are excellent ways to scaffold the process of writing.
  • That vocabulary development is a critical part of literacy development for ELLs.

Section 3 – Monitoring Progress

  • The importance of monitoring the progress of your ELLs.
  • Three strategies for monitoring progress.
Professional Development Course Resources

Helpful Resources & Templates Included With the Course
The course comes with 20 templates, tools, and graphic organizers ready to be used in your classroom!
These Include:

  • Proficiency Levels of English Language Learners
  • Teacher Reflection on ELL Support
  • Teacher Reflection on ELL Support-SAMPLE
  • Important Tips for Pairing Students for Buddy Writing
  • Interactive Writing Reference Guide
  • Daily Writing Reference Guide
  • Mentor Text Reference Guide
  • Sentence Stem and Frame Reference Guide
  • Vocabulary Building Templates
  • Choosing a Support Strategy Matrix
  • Can Do Checklists
  • Student Reflection Templates
  • Progress Monitoring Strategies Reference Guide
  • ELL Progress Monitoring Tracker
  • ELL Progress Monitoring Tracker-SAMPLE
  • Adding ELL Support Lesson Plan Template
  • Adding ELL Support Lesson Plan Template-SAMPLE
  • Effectiveness Rubric
  • Implementation Observation Checklist
  • Implementation Observation Checklist-SAMPLE
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$85
  • Register for full access to the course for 1 full year
  • Get started immediately, work at your own pace, and earn 15 ISBE clock hours once complete
  • Once your course is complete you will receive a completed ISBE certificate from NEIU
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