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Figure 4. Writing strategies used by ESOL teachers.
Literature responses
journals
Writing workshops

Dialogue journals

70%

Peer editing groups

61%
60%

Response groups

60%
50%

Directed Reading-Thinking
subject area journals
Languages Experience
Approach (LEA) stories
Writing a memoir

48%
42%

40%

36%
32%

30%
20%

29%
19%
18%
16%
14% 12%
10%

10%

Digital storytelling scripts
Buddy journals
Author's chair
Developing scripts for
readers' theater
Classroom/school
newspaper
Classroom/school
webpage

0%

For oral language development, brainstorming (94%) was selected by nearly all of the teachers,
followed by discussions of shared experiences (88%), oral games (79%), storytelling (75%), and
structured dialogues (74%). See Figure 5.

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