The Society for Technical Communication's award-winning
Technical Literacy Project adapts many
real-world science instructions and descriptions for use in
high-school science classes. These cases gradually build
student writing skills by revising, correcting, or expanding
scaffolded, sequenced text samples adapted from practical
materials outside the classroom.
Such structured technical-writing practice is especially
helpful for English language learners because:
(but, because, on the other hand) that ELL students often
ignore or underuse
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27 Aug 2009Here's an activity that's a fun way for students to practice listening to instructions and following them. All you need is a large TV in your classroom that can play videos, and a friend or family member from "back home" willing to help out.
Explain to students that you have a "special guest" who's going to help us a bit later, but we need to practice first. Use this practice time…
» Click here to read the rest of ‘Following Instructions from a Special Guest on Video’…
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