Tutor ready writing

The Writing Process

Pre-writing

Pre-Writing Strategies: An Overview

Half Baked Ideas: Promoting Playfulness and Selecting Writing Topics: Pre-Writing Strategies

Freewriting/Quick Write, Underlining and Clustering: Pre-Writing Strategies

Talk About the Weather: Using a Topic Table: Pre-Writing Strategies

Ten Things I Love to Do: Using Graphic Organizers: Pre-Writing Strategies

These Old Hands: Responding to an Image: Pre-Writing Strategies

Life Is So Good: Responding to a Text: Pre-Writing Strategies

Purpose/Audience/Voice/Message: Key Concepts for Pre-Writing

Responding and Revising

Tutor Roundtable: Responding to Writing 

Responding to Writing

Using a Rubric to Guide Revision

Using a Graphic Organizer to Guide Revision

Using Sentence Combining as Part of Revision

EDITING

Using the Guided Self-Correction Strategy for Editing

assessing writing

Using a Writing Portfolio to Assess Progress 

Getting ideas on the page - some drafting strategies

Writing from the Senses-Multisensory Writing Activities

writing for everyday purposes

Writing Emergency Contact Information: Writing for Everyday Purposes

Writing an Email to a Teacher: Writing for Everyday Purposes

Writing A Script for Calling a Doctor’s Office: Writing for Everyday Purposes 

Writing A Thank You Note: Writing for Everyday Purposes

Divide and Conquer: Completing an Application Form

working on mechanics

Tutor Ready Writing: Six-Word Stories: Word Choice Strategies: Vocabulary

Grammar Q and A: Two Adult Literacy Tutors Discuss Grammar’s Role in Teaching Writing

Tutor Ready Writing: Making It Memorable: A Bunch of Ways to Practice Spelling

Noticing Details In Words: Spelling Practice

using learner-generated texts with english language learners

Tutoring Learners Without Literacy in Any Language: Use Your Learner’s Words with a Picture Book

Tutoring Learners Without Literacy in Any Language: Use Your Learner’s Words in Picture Stories

Tutoring Learners Without Literacy in Any Language: Have your Learner Describe an Experience

Tutoring Learners Without Literacy in Any Language: Use Your Learner’s Words with a Favorite Recipe