Credit ESL Online Educational Resources (OER): Grammar/Writing

This book contains three levels of interactive grammar lessons and reading activities for beginning students of ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages). The grammar section includes a select set of YouTube videos, and the three original readers include short picture or chapter stories. Each lesson is accompanied by self-correcting exercises.
--- Each topic features at least one video lesson; many have more. The videos are well-produced. With each topic, there are four exercises. These give the students some guided practice. With respect to our ESL 111 course, the beginner lessons and exercises are too elementary. The high-beginner and intermediate ones, though, are appropriate for ESL 111.

Each topic contains explanations with two to three guided exercises. The explanations are clear and would serve as a good basis around which to form a lesson on the given topic. Independent practice exercises are also missing, as are lesson plans.

12 content areas + many practice quizzes. This resource offers quizzes on almost all of the grammar focus areas for ESL 111; it's missing modals, coordinating conjunctions, and transitions. There are also some explanations of the following focus areas: articles, future, past simple, present simple, present progressive, and question formation.

12 content areas + many practice quizzes. This resource offers quizzes on almost all of the grammar focus areas for ESL 111; it's missing modals, coordinating conjunctions, and transitions. There are also some explanations of the following focus areas: articles, future, past simple, present simple, present progressive, and question formation.

Covers:
Transition Words
Punctuation
coordinating conjunctions
Sentence structure
Dependent/Independent clauses
Clause markers for time, contrast, cause, condition
Complex and compound sentences
Paragraph writing components:
Title, topic sentence, body, conclusion
Essay Writing:
Hook, thesis, body, conclusion
There are useful Powerpoint slides here to embed in a Canvas course. ; The source has two workbooks and supplemental materials. Workbook 1 teaches fundamentals of sentence, paragraph and essay writing thoroughly. Workbook 2 is more focused on the fundamentals of academic research writing. Both workbooks mostly contain semi-guided and independent activities. They are ready to use without any additions. _________
Paragraph to Essay by Davina Ramirez is a complete writing packet that can be used for level 3 writing (ESL 133). This book covers different aspects of writing with a focus on essays. This book has 11 sections that are equivalent to 11 chapter or units. Section 1 which is the intro consists of practical information/reviews of writing/grammar basics which is very helpful. The author even included classroom words and behavior in section 1 which I believe are essential. Explanations are thorough and easy to follow. Using examples and explanations even at the level words and sentences, the author has made an effort to ensure students’ successful development from basics to essay writing skills.
You might wish to change the grading rubrics on pages 27-8.
Sections 3 focuses on Summary-Response Writing, which is uncommon in any of our academic writing books. There are good examples and exercises in this section which can help students develop better writing skill in general. However, the practicality of this section for in our courses can be doubted unless the summary or response expands into an essay.
The book covers both compound and complex sentence structure followed by good examples and useful exercises. [section 4]
Section 5 is where actual essay writing lesson begins. This section has great information, examples, and exercise. Both students and teachers will find this section absolutely beneficial in learning and teaching how to write essays.
Section 6: Process Analysis Writing doesn’t include academic examples and can be slightly confusing for students. This section teaches how to write essays that show a process such as recipes or manuals; however, academic topics that may require this style are very limited. A useful portion of this section is the list of transition words. Problem-solution or cause-effect essays could have been a lot more useful here.
Section 7 offers useful information about punctuation that can help many students. It also discusses independent/independent clauses, and revisits FANBOYS.
Section 8 (Descriptive Writing) is one of the best units which offers detailed lessons on writing descriptive essays, and includes practical examples and exercises. This chapter will be very useful for any writing student.
Section 9 has an interesting approach to teaching comma rules which is very effective and very thorough. The method is 6 examples for different situations where comma is used followed by 6 parts exercises.
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It thoroughly covers these areas with good examples, guided exercises, and independent practices. ESOL Writing 6:
This book has very good presentations and scaffolded exercises for parts of speech, sentence structure, run-ons and comma splices, and sentence types.
Verb review exercises are clearly presented.
It is excellent at introducing the purpose of writing and of identifying academic writing
There are clear presentation and examples for paragraph to essay forms.
It provides sample essays and scaffolding for process, descriptive, comparative, and narrative writing.
ESOL Writing 8:
There is a very good presentation of plagiarism and how to avoid it.
Chapter 5 contains useful information and practice for the 151 research paper: paraphrasing, using quotations, citing sources, and reported speech.
The book has good, scaffolded presentations for the summary paper, classification, and definition essays

This is more of a writing book than grammar, with elements of grammar involved. More essay examples need to be included. Types of essays not a focus though they are briefly mentioned in the process of writing. This book may be great paired with a grammar book for 141 while supplementing lessons for specific types of essay. This probably can be used for 133 since there is a focus from sentences to paragraphs/

Covers:
Transition Words
Punctuation
coordinating conjunctions
Sentence structure
Dependent/Independent clauses
Clause markers for time, contrast, cause, condition
Complex and compound sentences
Paragraph writing components:
Title, topic sentence, body, conclusion
Essay Writing:
Hook, thesis, body, conclusion
There are useful Powerpoint slides here to embed in a Canvas course. ; The source has two workbooks and supplemental materials. Workbook 1 teaches fundamentals of sentence, paragraph and essay writing thoroughly. Workbook 2 is more focused on the fundamentals of academic research writing. Both workbooks mostly contain semi-guided and independent activities. They are ready to use without any additions. _________
Paragraph to Essay by Davina Ramirez is a complete writing packet that can be used for level 3 writing (ESL 133). This book covers different aspects of writing with a focus on essays. This book has 11 sections that are equivalent to 11 chapter or units. Section 1 which is the intro consists of practical information/reviews of writing/grammar basics which is very helpful. The author even included classroom words and behavior in section 1 which I believe are essential. Explanations are thorough and easy to follow. Using examples and explanations even at the level words and sentences, the author has made an effort to ensure students’ successful development from basics to essay writing skills.
You might wish to change the grading rubrics on pages 27-8.
Sections 3 focuses on Summary-Response Writing, which is uncommon in any of our academic writing books. There are good examples and exercises in this section which can help students develop better writing skill in general. However, the practicality of this section for in our courses can be doubted unless the summary or response expands into an essay.
The book covers both compound and complex sentence structure followed by good examples and useful exercises. [section 4]
Section 5 is where actual essay writing lesson begins. This section has great information, examples, and exercise. Both students and teachers will find this section absolutely beneficial in learning and teaching how to write essays.
Section 6: Process Analysis Writing doesn’t include academic examples and can be slightly confusing for students. This section teaches how to write essays that show a process such as recipes or manuals; however, academic topics that may require this style are very limited. A useful portion of this section is the list of transition words. Problem-solution or cause-effect essays could have been a lot more useful here.
Section 7 offers useful information about punctuation that can help many students. It also discusses independent/independent clauses, and revisits FANBOYS.
Section 8 (Descriptive Writing) is one of the best units which offers detailed lessons on writing descriptive essays, and includes practical examples and exercises. This chapter will be very useful for any writing student.
Section 9 has an interesting approach to teaching comma rules which is very effective and very thorough. The method is 6 examples for different situations where comma is used followed by 6 parts exercises.
_____________
It thoroughly covers these areas with good examples, guided exercises, and independent practices. ESOL Writing 6:
This book has very good presentations and scaffolded exercises for parts of speech, sentence structure, run-ons and comma splices, and sentence types.
Verb review exercises are clearly presented.
It is excellent at introducing the purpose of writing and of identifying academic writing
There are clear presentation and examples for paragraph to essay forms.
It provides sample essays and scaffolding for process, descriptive, comparative, and narrative writing.
ESOL Writing 8:
There is a very good presentation of plagiarism and how to avoid it.
Chapter 5 contains useful information and practice for the 151 research paper: paraphrasing, using quotations, citing sources, and reported speech.
The book has good, scaffolded presentations for the summary paper, classification, and definition essays

This is more of a writing book than grammar, with elements of grammar involved. More essay examples need to be included. Types of essays not a focus though they are briefly mentioned in the process of writing. This book may be great paired with a grammar book for 141 while supplementing lessons for specific types of essay. This probably can be used for 133 since there is a focus from sentences to paragraphs/

This book is missing four key elements for ESL 141: verb tenses, gerunds, infinitives, and noun clauses.
The pronunciation unit is disconnected to the rest of the book and would not be useful for our grammar/writing courses.
The book covers the following: Adjective and Adverb Clauses, Conditionals, Passive Voice, Conjunctions and Punctuation. The explanations and exercises are effective. Complete book with lessons, examples, and activities.