Kathleen Ann Ramos
Teaching Adolescent ELs to Write Academic?Style Persuasive Essays
abstract wide adoption new common core state standards ccss us increased expectations teachers prepare learners read write academic ways knowledge needed instructional approaches may lead adolescent english learners el meet goal developing academic literacy practices represents acute challenge adolescent el article describes eightweek instructional unit us urban public high school investigated effectiveness using genrebased reading learn approach support 20 adolescent el learning write academicstyle persuasive essays results indicated statistically significant increase pretest posttest participants effective use linguistic resources function create persuasion academic way findings suggest reading learn approach may one way support adolescent el developing academic literacy practices