EDLA 518 - Teaching Writing to English Language Learners (3)

Speaking, listening, reading, and writing. These are the four disciplines of learning a language, and the four challenges that your English language learners (ELLs) are working through every day. Speaking, listening, and reading often come up as natural parts of existing lesson plans. But addressing the unique writing needs of ELLs can be a bit more challenging, and requires planning and intentionality.

In this course, you will review the classroom conditions necessary for successful writing instruction of English language learners (ELLs). You’ll cultivate lesson ideas for teaching students at all levels of language acquisition how to make connections, ask questions, visualize, infer, determine importance, synthesize, monitor meaning and comprehension, and revise their writing. In addition, you’ll choose effective mentor texts, create assessments that accurately assess ELLs’ writing progress, and learn best practices for providing appropriate feedback and error correction.

Using the strategies from this course, you’ll be able to reach students of all levels of language proficiency to motivate and inspire them to learn and grow.