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Creative Writing Prompts for the Holidays: Festive Ideas for ESL Classrooms
Get your ESL students excited about writing this holiday season with creative prompts perfect for all skill levels. Discover festive ideas for bell ringers, journaling, and warm-ups that build vocabulary and engage imaginations. Learn how to differentiate prompts for beginner to advanced students and create a fun, supportive classroom environment!
5 Engaging Activities for Teaching Paragraph Writing to ESL Students
Engage your ESL students with 5 fun activities for teaching paragraph writing! From topic sentence match-ups to paragraph puzzles, these hands-on exercises build writing skills and make learning interactive.
7 Engaging Peer Editing Activities for Your ESL Students
These 7 activities provide opportunities for ESL students to engage in meaningful peer editing and revising processes. By actively participating in these activities, students can develop their editing and revising skills, provide valuable feedback, and ultimately improve their own writing abilities.
10 ESL Activities to Teach Chronological Organization in Narrative Writing
Get your ESL students to master organization skills in writing so they can create captivating stories with a logical flow of events that engage readers from start to finish. Through the use of effective strategies, your students will for sure bring their experiences to life. Here, you’ll find 10 ESL teaching strategies for chronological organization in narrative writing.
10 Fun Activities to Develop Descriptive Writing in ESL Students
Explore 10 activities to develop descriptive writing in our ESL students that are actually fun. Pick and choose what works for your students depending on the grade level you’re teaching and the proficiency level of your students.
Descriptive Writing for Middle School ESL Students
Descriptive writing is one of the absolute best ways for ESL students of any age to develop their English writing skills. By practicing descriptive writing, ESL students can really boost their overall language proficiency and feel more confident in their writing abilities.
Expository Essay Writing for Middle School ESL Students
As middle school ELA teachers of ESL students, we know how important it is for ESL students to develop their expository writing skills. But don't worry, it can be done. Here, you’ll learn the strategies your students need from you to be successful expository essay writers.
Argumentative Essay Writing for ESL Middle School Students
Here’s a great formula that works wonders for teaching your ESL students (and everyone else) how to write an awesome argumentative essay, and you can even use it for persuasive or opinion essays!
How to Teach ESL Students to Write in English: Tips That Actually Work
Here, you’ll learn 4 tips and strategies to effectively teach your middle school ESL students to write in English.