Moving From Spoken to Written Language With ELLs - Paperback

by Ivannia Soto (Author)

Mastering spoken language is the key to writing success for English Language Learning

ELLs struggle to meet the writing demands of the Common Core State Standards. In this book, ELL expert Ivannia Soto demonstrates how oral language development is the key to building writing skills. She offers educators a powerful set of tools for implementation at both classroom and policy levels, including:

- Exciting spoken techniques such as Socratic Seminar, Frayer model and Think-Pair-Share that build vocabulary and extend into academic writing
- Approaches to teaching three essential styles of writing: argumentative, procedural, and narrative
- Sample lesson plans and graphic organizer templates