ESL Ideas      (B=Beginning, I=Intermediate, T=Transitional)
(B) Using a list provided by the teacher, students highlight transitional words in a newspaper article or other writing.  (I, T) Students identify orally or in writing the beginning, middle, and end of a story they have read or written.
(I, T) Students use pictures to create a story sequence of events. Students can draw the pictures or the teacher can cut out pictures and have the students place the pictures in order.
(I, T) Students list the steps in a procedure or science demonstration.  Transitional students can also make sentences or paragraphs about the procedure or demonstration.
(I, T) Students locate comic strips (preferably from the Sunday paper) and cut them into separate frames. Students exchange groups of comic strip frames and place them in the correct sequential order. Students then read the newly sequenced comic strip to the class to check for correct order.

Owl: Paragraphing (length consistency)
(I, T) Activity uses graphics as tool to organize student's paper with one idea in each box following an explanation of how to write an effective paragraph

Writing Descriptive Paragraphs
(B, I) Activities follow an explanation of an effective paragraph where the student answers questions about himself or herself and fills in the gaps of a descriptive paragraph

Loma Vista: How To Write an Orange
(B, I) Activities help student write a sentence or a paragraph in a logical progression

Sequence Graphic Organizers
(B) Graphic organizers for beginner students to sequence through the use of drawings and/or simple words

Owl: The Paragraph
(I, T) Handout gives some basic instruction and advice regarding the creation of understandable and coherent paragraphs including the following: unity, coherence, topic sentence, adequate development

 

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