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Writing with Pen

Writing Resources

Visual Notetaking

This Education Week article "Visual Notetaking in the Classroom" by ESL teacher Wendi Pillars explains why and how to give visual notetaking (also known as graphic visualization or sketch noting) a try in the classroom. This fun and powerful approach exercises students' kinesthetic, auditory, linguistic, and verbal modalities and offers the teacher tangible, immediate feedback on comprehension.

3-12 Reading Strategies

Dozens of  referenced writing strategies that can be used with English Learners in grades 3-12, compiled by Language Education Consultant, Dr. Virginia P. Rojas.

Citation Game

This University of Washington site enables students to play an interactive game to learn how to correctly format common APA and MLA citation types.

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