Released on: September 20, 2008, 3:22 am

Press Release Author: Stephen Mellter

Industry: Education

Press Release Summary: LessonWriter makes lesson planning and explicit literacy
instruction in context for content-area teachers, and can automatically
differentiate instruction, and tracks classes.

Press Release Body:
LessonWriter is a new, free website that aims to assist teachers by analyzing
readings and creating lesson plans for teachers. It was designed by an English as a
Second Language (ESL) teacher and is free to the public. The user-friendly website
allows teachers to cut and paste electronic readings into a field, then analyzes
grammatical and lexical structures and guides teachers through the steps to create a
customized lessson plan. The software analyzes the discourse of the reading to
isolate vocabulary and grammar. It then provides definitions and contextualized
examples of vocabulary. Research has shown that contextualized grammar and
vocabulary instruction improve learner comprehension and retention.

The website also does the analytical and time-consuming work for the teacher by
examining the passage's vocabulary for the presence of prefixes, roots, suffixes; it
also categorizes the vocabulary. The teacher has the option of clicking on the most
common category and/or the one most needed by his/her students. The same process
occurs with the grammar portion lessons. The software identifies the grammatical
forms present in the reading, categorizes them grammatically categorizes them, and
allows the teacher to select which grammatical feature(s) to emphasize in their
lessons plans.

LessonWriter goes even further to help teachers; the software generates several open
and close-ended activities for language practice. Comprehension questions can be
formatted as short answer, extend response, or multiple choice, so any reading
passage at all can be used as part of a test prep course. There is a selection of
graphic organizers that teachers can include in their readings as well.

The teacher can view, modify and print the lesson plan for use. Ingeniously, the
same lesson can be modified for students with different needs. By re-arranging the
exercises and using them in different combinations, a teacher can create literally
thousands of versions of a lesson sheet. This website is extremely helpful when
preparing content-area lesson plans, because teachers can employ authentic
materials, view all the grammatical and lexical components of the reading without
doing the analysis personally, and so include explicit literacy instruction in any
subject.

Classes and lessons plans are managed, too. LessonWriter makes recommendations on
what to teach next for each class, and teachers can always return to previously
created lessons for editing or re-use. Lessons are permanently recorded for easy and
reliable reporting.


Web Site: http://www.LessonWriter.com

Contact Details: St. Merate. 255 , 064872356, lessonwritters@yahoo.com