SUPPORTING ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS THROUGHOUT THE WRITING PROCESS – NEIU COURSE

Section 1 – ELL Proficiency Levels

• The importance of supporting writing in ELLs
• Appropriate writing strategies to implement in your classroom to support ELL students through all stages of the writing process
• How to monitor and assess ELL student growth in writing

Section 2 – Support Strategies Before Writing

• About the Before Writing Stage
• Considerations for generating appropriate writing prompts for ELL students
• Vocabulary strategies to support the vocabulary development of your ELLs
• How to use graphic organizers to support your ELL students with the planning process

Section 3 – Strategies for During Writing

• About the During Writing Stage
• Strategies such as buddy writing and interactive writing that are great ways to improve the writing fluency and confidence of ELLs
• That exposing students to quality mentor texts and providing them with sentence stems or frames are excellent ways to scaffold the process of writing

Section 4 – Strategies for After Writing

• About the After Writing Stage
• That ELL students need specific instruction in how to revise and edit their work
• That self-reflection and peer-revising/editing are two strategies teachers can implement to scaffold their ELL students’ post-writing process
• That publishing a writing piece can take on many forms, but should always be a source of pride and celebrated for all students

Section 5- Monitoring the Progress of ELLs

• How to monitor and assess the progress of your ELLs
• That Can Do Checklists, student reflections, writing conferences, and student portfolios are excellent ways to track student progress
• That progress can be monitored over time with a detailed progress monitoring documentation tool

Section 6- Choosing Appropriate Strategies

• How to choose the most appropriate strategies for your students, based on student needs and your instructional goals
  Why it is so important to constantly evaluate your strategy choices