This new, significantly updated edition of From Talking to Writing offers welcome help for any educator working with students who struggle with writing and/or expressive language skills. From word choice to sentence structure and composition development, this book provides step-by-step strategies for teaching narrative and expository writing. What you'll find in this second edition: theory behind language difficulties and appropriate instructional practices, techniques for teaching word choice and proper grammar, instructional strategies to help students organize and expand their writing, scaffolded templates for sentence, paragraph, and essay instruction ready to use in the classroom with clear instruction, teaching dialogues, and sample responses. What's new in this edition: Personal sequence narrative techniques, semantic features analysis, sentence expansion strategies, micro-discourse text elaboration, Common Core Standard indexing.

Title of first edition: From talking to writing: strategies for scaffolding expository expression

Chapter 1. Foundations for language learning -- Chapter 2. Word-level concepts and skills: strategies for expanding and enhancing vocabulary -- Chapter 3. Word-level concepts and skills: strategies for expanding and enhancing adjective and adverb concepts -- Chapter 4. Sentence-level concepts and skills: strategies for teaching sentences -- Chapter 5. Paragraph-level concepts and skills: personal sequence narrative and micro-discourse strategies as bridges to expository writing -- Chapter 6. Essay-level concepts and skills: expository text strategies -- Appendix 1. Complementary resources -- Appendix 2. Common core college and career readiness anchor standards addressed in From Talking to Writing -- Appendix 3. Templates -- Glossary of specialized vocabulary -- References.