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Adult ESL | Logical Order Writing Activities

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This money-saving bundle has the following resources: ⭐ The Three Parts of a Paragraph ⭐ How to Fail a Driving Test ⭐ How to Fail an English Course ⭐ The Five Steps of the Writing Process⭐ Added on 2/7/2016: Study Groups ⭐ Added on 3/25/2016: Finding the Main Idea ⭐ Added on 3/29/2016: Summarizing - Writing Activity ⭐ Added on 10/16/2016: How to Build Your Own Vocabulary ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❤️ I greatly appreciate and treasure your feedback as it helps me determine which resources are the most valuable for your classroom so I can create more for you. ❤️ Although no TpT credit is given for feedback on freebies, it’s certainly an incentive to create and provide more freebies!

Follow me to be among the first to know about my new freebies and resource launches. Students will learn about / review the five steps of the writing process while practicing sequencing according to logical order and eliminating sentences that break unity.

Lower level students often have an easier time understanding logical order when they can see the sentences arranged in different ways. Allowing students the time to manipulate the sentences/sentence chunks into order better allows them the opportunity to visualize complete paragraphs with logical order. In this activity, students will also eliminate sentences that break unity. This activity reinforces the idea that both the topic sentence and concluding sentence are just one sentence each, while supporting sentences make up the main body of a paragraph.

Rather than another step-by-step paragraph of upstanding advice, students will use tongue-in-cheek advice on gloriously flunking an English course to practice sequencing sentences into logical order and eliminating those that break unity.

Practice logical order with this backwards look at taking a driving test.

Lower level students often have an easier time understanding logical order when they can see the sentences arranged in different ways. Allowing students the time to manipulate the sentences/sentence chunks into order better allows them the opportunity to visualize complete paragraphs with logical order. This activity reinforces the idea that both the topic sentence and concluding sentence are just one sentence each, while supporting sentences make up the main body of a paragraph. In addition, students will more easily see how a concluding sentence is similar to a topic sentence when they can first compare them side-by-side. Students will enjoy and be able to relate to the reverse topic of tips to FAIL a driver's test whether they have yet to try for it or already have their own license. The three parts of a paragraph and the function of each is highlighted in this logical order sequencing activity.

Lower level students often have an easier time understanding logical order when they can see the sentences arranged in different ways. Allowing students the time to manipulate the sentences/sentence chunks into order better allows them the opportunity to visualize complete paragraphs with logical order. This activity reinforces the idea that both the topic sentence and concluding sentence are just one sentence each, while supporting sentences make up the main body of a paragraph.

In addition, students will more easily see how a concluding sentence is similar to a topic sentence when they can first compare them side-by-side. Students will learn more about each of the three parts of a paragraph while completing the sequencing activity/worksheet and then apply what they have learned/reviewed in their own writing. Want some similar resources with different topics? Get them all! Students will practice sequencing skills and writing with logical order with this resource centered on the topic of study groups.

NOTE: This is part of my writing bundle. If you already have the bundle, you already have this. Just re-download the bundle. :) Students will practice sequencing skills and writing with logical order with this resource while learning how to find the main idea.

NOTE: This is part of my writing bundle. If you already have the bundle, you already have this. Just re-download the bundle. :) Teaching logical order, or sequencing skills, and want an academic theme to go with that?

Check this out! In this writing activity, students learn about summarizing while practicing their sequencing skills. Whether you teach adult ESL or secondary English, your students need to understand what makes a strong summary. Help them reach that point with this! Included: ✔ 3 teacher pages of suggestions and and instructions ✔ 1 page numbering activity (tightly compacted) ✔ 2 page numbering activity (SAME, but with more white space) ✔ 1 page answer key for numbering activity ✔ 5 pages of sequencing cards (one cover sheet card) (30 cards total) ✔ 2 page cloze activity ✔ 2 page answer key for cloze activity ✔ 1 page discussion questions ✔ 1 page graphic organizer of expressions for summarizing ✔ 3 pages of graphic organizers ✔ 3 pages of summarizing activities ✔ 1 page graphic organizer for summarizing a lecture/talk (please see the preview)

Depending upon the educational background of your students, they may have never learned vocabulary building techniques for their first language.

Perhaps it’s not emphasized or even necessary in their culture. However, your university-bound students NEED this skill to pass university entrance exams as well as to be successful in their future university classes. Too often our ESL students focus their time and effort on memorizing lists of words that they unsurprisingly cannot retain or use in a meaningful way.