Adriane GeronimoK–12 English Language Arts Standards of Learning

Institutes

October 20, 2014

Richmond, Virginia

Effective Strategies with Elementary

English Language Learners

Academic Writing

Personal IntroductionIntroduction to the “problem”Cohesion and CoherenceTightly Organized ParagraphPrecise VocabularyVarying Linguistic ComplexityDirections for the FutureQ & A

Agenda

Personal Introduction

Introduction to the “problem”

Introduction to the “problem”

Introduction to the “problem”

Linguistic Complexity / Language Forms and ConventionsCohesion and CoherenceTightly Organized ParagraphVarying Linguistic Complexity

Vocabulary UsagePrecise Vocabulary

Language ControlNot addressed; some examples of 1/2 text modeled

from source text

Introduction to the “problem”

Introduction

Cohesion and Coherence

Cohesion and Coherence

Tightly Organized Paragraph

Tightly Organized Paragraph

Tightly Organized Paragraph

Tightly Organized Essay

Tightly Organized Essay

Precise Vocabulary

Precise VocabularyVocabProfile

Precise VocabularyVocabProfile

Varying Linguistic Complexity

Directions for the Future

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