• Exposing students to various genres of written text is one of the most powerful approaches to guiding development in writing.
• This resource helps educators combine explicit and intentional strategies to facilitate writing development across genres for English learners in Grades 2-8.
• Based on the author's experience as a writing instructor, this guide provides a unique approach that emphasizes using choice and students' personal experiences to engage English learners in writing.
• Chapters outline a variety of scaffolds that provide students with the targeted help they need based on their current development and proficiency.
• These supports allow teachers to work with students as they analyse elements of written text, work alongside peers, and learn to write in different genres.

Teachers will find:

• Resources for teaching narrative, expository, and persuasive writing and poetry.
• Techniques for using the process writing model to lead students through pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing their work.
• Reproducible graphic organizers for use with English learners.
• Samples of student work.