WRITING SUPPORT FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS

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 also learn how to monitor the progress of your ELLs to make sure they are improving their writing skills.

In This Course 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 and subject areas.
• How to best monitor the progress of your ELLs.
• Strategies such as buddy writing, daily writing, and interactive writing as 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.
• Vocabulary development as a critical part of literacy development for ELLs.
• The importance of monitoring the progress of your ELLs and three strategies for monitoring progress.

At the conclusion of the course, you will receive a certificate for 8 Professional Development Hours (Clock Hours, CPEs).

Model Teaching Professional Development Courses are pre-approved in many states and we provide easy approval forms to submit to your license granting authority if required.

If you are a teacher seeking license renewal and wish to verify acceptance of our Professional Development Courses, please view our PD STATE REQUIREMENTS PAGE to learn more about your state’s requirements.

Also, consider taking our UNIVERSITY-PARTNERED, ACADEMIC CREDIT COURSES to earn regionally-accredited units or credits, accepted by most states for teacher re-licensing and salary advancement.