What Educators Are Saying...
What Krimmel's book offers is clear and practical guidance on how to achieve success with the writing process with multilingual learners at the earliest stages of their language development. Eugenia Krimmel's book is a much-needed addition to the professional library of any educator working with multilingual learners. Accelerating literacy and, more specifically, teaching writing to newcomers, may be perceived as a monumental task, both when it comes to its importance and the challenge that teachers and students may face.
-Dr. Andrea Honigsfeld, Professor of TESOL, Molloy University and author of over 30 EL / ML books to date
"This book provides practical suggestions for teaching basic writing skills to English learners, organized around the stages of the writing process. Krimmel’s expertise in addressing the unique needs of English newcomers, combined with her experience teaching writing to these students, makes this book a valuable resource with easily implementable strategies."
- Joan Sedita, Author of The Writing Rope
“The phases are important to my step-by-step teaching plans because I did not know how to teach beginner ELs writing, phonics, and spelling before now.”
– 6th grade special education teacher
“I found that the Teacher Underwriting technique was more effective individually rather than in small groups because my students did not want to share their writing pieces. Some let me share them, but many were reluctant to share in class.”
- 2nd grade teacher
“Because I mostly teach TDAs [Text Dependent Analysis], I rarely took the time to develop ELs’ writing skills more completely. I could use the phases for teaching TDAs as well.”
– 5th grade teacher
EL Writing Process
Equity, Literacy, and Voice for Newcomer English Learners
Every English Learner enters your classroom with ideas, memories, and brilliance—ready to learn, but often held back by a well-meaning system that waits for oral language proficiency before encouraging beginner Newcomers to write.
The EL Writing Process was created to change that!
Teachers, literacy coaches, and preservice teaching professors will find the benefits from reading this EL Writing Process Playbook
Meet the Author
Developed by Dr. Eugenia Krimmel, a veteran ESOL educator, coach, and writing expert, the EL Writing Process is a practical, classroom-tested methodology that integrates phonics, spelling, and academic writing into the traditional writing process used with native English speakers.
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