Category: Academic Writing
Language specialist Tan Huynh goes beyond familiar methods of scaffolding for paragraph development to help multilingual students understand how sentences interact for cause and effect, adding details, explanation, and contrast using a TABBS structure he has developed.
Tan Huynh shares an effective, easy-to-implement process to teach multilinguals how to organize their academic writing by building sentence-by-sentence transitions. See how he leads students through the process of applying time-based transitions and subordinating conjunctions.
Each subject has its own rules for writing. After years of figuring out how to teach writing to MLs, especially those who are no longer beginners, social studies teacher and language specialist Tan Huynh has refined his process for explicit academic writing instruction.