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Learn English Writing, 4

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Learn English Writing, 4

  1. Write a summary of a video – plot, character, setting, and message.
  2. Improve logical writing style by completing third critical thinking assignment (not a murder mystery);
  3. Complete 3rd draft of first story (past actions);
  4. Complete 2nd and 3rd draft of murder mystery 1 (stairs) and 2 (restaurant);
  5. Self-check answers for chapter 3 in the textbook;
  6. Complete third time repeated writing task;
  7. Complete new writing fluency activity – timed creative sentences;
  8. Discuss quiz #1 schedule.

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#10 Teach English Writing – How to Self Edit

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Teach English Writing – How to Self-Edit

Main Idea

When faced with the task of revising English text on their own, ESL students often hesitate because they do not know what to do. As a result, they may focus on writing conventions, like grammar, spelling or punctuation without addressing higher order challenges like cohesion or style. A few students seem to think that rewrite means recopy. This lesson focuses on one specific rewriting objective and three techniques to help students go beyond proofreading during the redrafting stage.

The objective is enable ESL students with the ability to create emphasis by putting the most important idea at the end of the sentence. To accomplish this task, students will learn how to manipulate three sentence patterns:

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Learn English Writing, 2

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Learn English Writing, 2

Work Plan – Week 2

  1. learn how to write arguments based on evidence and logic;
  2. write second draft of the 15-minute writing exercise (your wrote the first draft last week);
  3. practice editing with some error correction exercises proofreading exercise 1;
  4. review answers from writing textbook – chapter 1;
  5. did you miss see syllabus (or pdf file)?

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#15 Teaching Writing – Avoid Wordy Sentences

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Teach Writing: Editing Sentences

Writing Skills: sentence fluency, editing, word choice

What comes after ESL students write the first draft? Editing.

Learning how to edit their own work is an important English writing skill.

“Edit what?” students might ask.

One answer is to look for two kinds of writing problems in the first draft: wordy sentences and empty phrases. Helping students improve their writing skills by recognizing and fixing these problems is the purpose of this lesson. 

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