Writing+Strategies

=There are various instructional strategies that may be used to aid teachers in the classroom who are working with struggling writers. The following are a list of strategies developed to help students with a variety of literacy issues.=

**Instructional Strategies: **

 * Use of homophones with students
 * Drawings
 * Visual aids: graphic organizers
 * Read aloud allowing students to hear proper ways of writing. *Does it sound right?”
 * Shared reading
 * Graphic organizers
 * Alphabet books
 * Visual Cues: Student seeing pictures, hearing stories, brainstorming with peers and teacher, reading story aloud and listening to other students’ stories gives the student positive reinforcement.
 * Teaching Diverse Learners. Retrieved from [|www.alliance.brown.edu]
 * Peer review would assist with student's skills;
 * Class basic verb tense study
 * Have student read the selection that she/he wrote and find his/her mistakes,
 * Gunning,2010, suggested admit slips for writing(for beginning of class),
 * Gunning, 2010, suggested quickwrite for middle of class with three or four words about topic or concept.
 * Use review form for peers use to assist in the reviews.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Punctuation marks chart posted and exercises used for practice
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Availability of various reading material to assist with speaking and writing phraseology
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Posted English grammar rules (also synonyms, antonyms, punctuation marks, etc.)


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Resources: **

[|http://www.learnnc.org//lp/pages/724]

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[|www.ascd.org/how_to_teach_ELLs]

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