21 Writing Tools: Project Outline (a work in progress)
This series of English lessons is designed for teachers who want to help ESL students learn English writing.
These ESL lessons focus on easy to explain, skills-based classroom exercises that improve student performance. The writing skills include sentence structure, vocabulary development, some grammar to improve idea clarity, as well as paragraph organization.
The General Outline
Here are some initial thoughts on the types of writing skills that ESL students need. It is a partial list – so far – and is bound to change as I get deeper into this project.
- thesis sentences
- editing exercises to improve critical reading
- improve precision with better verbs
- understand cultural differences in terms of writing expectations vis a vis western and eastern countries
- basic capitalization and punctuation
- Inquiry Approach to Thinking and Writing
- Basic paragraph organisation
- Commas, Three Essential Rules
- Sentence Fluency
- Teach English Writing – How to Self-Edit
- Teach English Writing Fluency
- See Multiple Perspectives
- Fix Run On Sentences
- Avoid Choppy sentences
- Rewriting skills – edit wordy sentences
- Paraphrasing with synonyms to build vocabulary and idea flow
- Teaching writing via proofreading
- Paraphrasing and vocabulary expansion with nominalisations
- Sentence grammar, clarity and style – parallel structure
- Definite and definite articles
- Sentence structure – appositives
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