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28 June 2022

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Essay Writing for Adolescents with Language and Learning Difficulties is a step-by-step guide for educators teaching secondary students with language difficulties how to write an English essay and, more importantly, how to do this on their own.

Essay writing is one of the most difficult skills that secondary school students need to develop, though there are limited resources available to support these students and their teachers. Based on research into language disorders in adolescence and language processing, the strategies in this book are easy to apply and represent a scaffolded and sequenced approach to teaching essay writing. The book's structure encourages students' skills and confidence to be developed gradually, each chapter building on the last, beginning with the early stages of text analysis and progressing through to writing a complete essay. While written with students with language difficulties in mind, the strategies in this book are applicable to teaching all secondary school students.

Written by a speech pathologist with over a decade's experience working in secondary schools, this book is an essential resource for all high school English teachers and any education professionals responsible for teaching adolescents how to write essays competently and confidently.

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Essay Writing for Adolescents with Language and Learning Difficulties : Practical Strategies for English Teachers

• Essay Writing for Adolescents with Language and Learning Difficulties Guide for teaching students with language difficulties how to write an English essay & do it on their own.

Essay Writing for Adolescents with Language and Learning Difficulties is a step-by-step guide for educators to teach secondary students with language difficulties how to write an English essay and, more importantly, how to do this on their own.

Essay writing is one of the most difficult skills that secondary school students need to develop, though there are limited resources available to support these students and their teachers. Based on research into language disorders in adolescence and language processing, the strategies in this book are easy to apply and represent a scaffolded and sequenced approach to teaching essay writing.

The book's structure encourages students' skills and confidence to be developed gradually, each chapter building on the last, beginning with the early stages of text analysis and progressing through to writing a complete essay. While written with students with language difficulties in mind, the strategies in this book are applicable to teaching all secondary school students.

• provides teachers with easy to implement strategies based on research in speech pathology and education.
• addresses the needs of adolescents learning to write essays in a structured and accessible way.
• provides relevant strategies that can be integrated into existing lesson plans and curriculum tasks.

Written by a speech pathologist with over a decade’s experience working in secondary schools, this book is an essential resource for all high school English teachers and any education professionals responsible for teaching adolescents how to write essays competently and confidently.

Table of Contents

• A Way to Analyse Texts
• Essential Essay Structures
• Essay Topic Breakdown and Planning
• Writing an English Essay

"This book, Essay writing for adolescents with language and learning difficulties: Practical Strategies for English Teachers, came at the perfect timing for me supporting a student in Year 10 to write essays. Although the book is essentially about essay structure, Knight has at several points introduced useful, succinct sections on sentence-level grammatical concepts. These sections can clearly be adapted by teachers for use in a range of essay writing contexts. Ultimately, nothing is left to chance in this book - all the essay barriers faced by students (and teachers) have been addressed. The extensive worked examples provide the opportunity for teacher workshops to be planned, during which the strategies can be rehearsed before teachers take them into the classroom. Even though Knight states that the book is not purposed for general classroom instruction, like any good instruction, I have noticed that anything that works for students with learning difficulties also works for all other students. This book has its place in any secondary English teacher’s toolkit, as well as for speech-language pathologists and consultants. Even better, it can even have its place in the classroom for Tier 1 instruction as well as in any learning support setting." - Jacinta Conway, specialist teacher and Director of Impact Tuition, Australia.

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Essay Writing for Adolescents with Language and Learning Difficulties is a step-by-step guide for educators teaching secondary students with language difficulties how to write an English essay and, more importantly, how to do this on their own.

Essay writing is one of the most difficult skills that secondary school students need to develop, though there are limited resources available to support these students and their teachers. Based on research into language disorders in adolescence and language processing, the strategies in this book are easy to apply and represent a scaffolded and sequenced approach to teaching essay writing. The book's structure encourages students' skills and confidence to be developed gradually, each chapter building on the last, beginning with the early stages of text analysis and progressing through to writing a complete essay. While written with students with language difficulties in mind, the strategies in this book are applicable to teaching all secondary school students.

Written by a speech pathologist with over a decade’s experience working in secondary schools, this book is an essential resource for all high school English teachers and any education professionals responsible for teaching adolescents how to write essays competently and confidently.

• ISBN-10 1032203943
• ISBN-13 978-1032203942
• Edition 1st
• Publication date 28 Jun. 2022
• Language English
• Dimensions 15.6 x 1.32 x 23.39 cm
• Print length 146 pages
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‘This book, Essay writing for adolescents with language and learning difficulties: Practical Strategies for English Teachers , came at the perfect timing for me supporting a student in Year 10 to write essays. Although the book is essentially about essay structure, Knight has at several points introduced useful, succinct sections on sentence-level grammatical concepts. These sections can clearly be adapted by teachers for use in a range of essay writing contexts. Ultimately, nothing is left to chance in this book - all the essay barriers faced by students (and teachers) have been addressed. The extensive worked examples provide the opportunity for teacher workshops to be planned, during which the strategies can be rehearsed before teachers take them into the classroom. Even though Knight states that the book is not purposed for general classroom instruction, like any good instruction, I have noticed that anything that works for students with learning difficulties also works for all other students. This book has its place in any secondary English teacher’s toolkit, as well as for speech-language pathologists and consultants. Even better, it can even have its place in the classroom for Tier 1 instruction as well as in any learning support setting.’

Jacinta Conway, specialist teacher and Director of Impact Tuition, Australia.

About the Author

Kim Knight has worked as a speech pathologist for over a decade, practising in schools across Australia. She has a passion for books, and her degrees in English literature have proved invaluable in supporting secondary and university students struggling with narrative and essay writing.

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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (28 Jun. 2022)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 146 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1032203943
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1032203942
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.6 x 1.32 x 23.39 cm

About the author

Kim used to work in marketing, where she wrote copy and implemented corporate marketing strategies all day. After doing this for a while, she decided to redirect her passion for communication. Kim lives in Melbourne, Australia with her partner and their rust-coloured groodle. Kim loves reading and writing all sorts of things, including fiction and non-fiction.

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Writing Instruction for Adolescents with Learning Disabilities: Programs of Intervention Research

2008, Learning Disabilities Research & Practice

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— This review study explores four methods of teaching writing to students with disabilities. The goal of this review study, therefore, is to investigate writing interventions intended for students with more debilities than learning disabilities (LD) attempting to determine if students' writing developed during the intervention. About 13 studies use self-regulated strategy development (SRSD) instruction and two studies combine SRSD with other instructions. Moreover, this review attempts to determine the possibility of applying journal writing instruction, persuasive writing, and sentence-level skills. Diverse strategies and skills, such as integration of reading and writing, handwriting, sentence construction, and grammar or usage are to be explicated. The results show that handwriting is an effective means to improve writing. Moreover, students are able to change the simple sentences to complex sentences. In addition, limitations and suggestions for further research have been presented.

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Most learning disabilities exist only within a school-based context. Some see learning disabilities as a disorder related to a basic psychological process. A disorder is an abnormal physical or mental condition. The medical model views a disability as something within the person that must be fixed or cured. The social model views a disability as an impairment in which restrictions are put in place on the social plane. Dysgraphia, motor dysgraphia, spatial dysgraphia, and linguistic dysgraphia are all fancy sounding names, but they have more to do with letter formation skills and little to do with writing. This chapter ends with nine strategies that can be used with students who struggle with writing.

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Essay Writing for Adolescents with Language and Learning Difficulties

Practical strategies for english teachers, publisher description.

Essay Writing for Adolescents with Language and Learning Difficulties is a step-by-step guide for educators teaching secondary students with language difficulties how to write an English essay and, more importantly, how to do this on their own. Essay writing is one of the most difficult skills that secondary school students need to develop, though there are limited resources available to support these students and their teachers. Based on research into language disorders in adolescence and language processing, the strategies in this book are easy to apply and represent a scaffolded and sequenced approach to teaching essay writing. The book's structure encourages students' skills and confidence to be developed gradually, each chapter building on the last, beginning with the early stages of text analysis and progressing through to writing a complete essay. While written with students with language difficulties in mind, the strategies in this book are applicable to teaching all secondary school students. Written by a speech pathologist with over a decade’s experience working in secondary schools, this book is an essential resource for all high school English teachers and any education professionals responsible for teaching adolescents how to write essays competently and confidently.

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