Helping English Learners to Write

Carol Booth Olson is an associate professor of education at the University of California, Irvine, and the director of the National Writing Project's UCI location. Robin C. Scarcella is a professor in the School of Humanities and the head of the Program in Academic English at the University of California, Irvine. Tina Matuchniak is the UCI Writing Project's research director and a lecturer at California State University, Long Beach.

Helping English Learners to Write will assist secondary teachers in improving the academic writing of English learners by utilizing a wide range of research-based approaches. It offers specific instructional strategies, activities, and extended lessons to help EL students build their narrative, informational, and argumentative writing skills, as highlighted by the Common Core State Standards. It also investigates the difficulties that each of these genres presents for ELs and provides strategies for scaffolding education to assist students become confident and proficient academic writers.

Helping English Learners to Write includes artifacts and written work produced by students with varying levels of language proficiency as models of what students can accomplish, showcasing the work of exemplary school teachers who have devoted time and expertise to creating rich learning environments for the secondary classroom. Each chapter starts with a brief overview and concludes with a brief review of the main ideas.

This book can be used by readers to:

• Assist ELs in meeting the Common Core State Standards' writing requirements.
• Plan and establish educational objectives.
• Teacher-tested tactics, activities, and lessons can be used to supplement existing English language arts or English language development curricula.
• Create a learning community.
• Create secure classroom environments in which students, especially those with less-than-perfect English, are encouraged to engage.
• Create and implement culturally relevant instruction that capitalizes on students' skills.

Author: Carol Booth Olson, Robin C. Scarcella and Tina Matuchniak

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0807756334

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