Concepts for written language

The concepts I found was about helping ELL's organize their thoughts prior to writing. Strategies that I found included creating a topic board that the teacher and students use sticky notes to write about discussion and writing topics throughout the day or few days. This is a new strategy that I would really like to learn more about.
Another one is, allow for peer and tacher to student discussion before engaging in writing. Students start by discussing thir topic one on one with each other and then extending the conversation through whole group discussion by writing key words on the board. This strategy helps students reherse and try out new English words and topics.
The final one was encouraging illustratons. Believe it or not, drawing is a fantastic way of organizing thoughts for ELLs. Drawing is a good way to engage in additional conversation between teachers and students as well. This discussion can also extend in conversation between writer and audience.

http://esl-programs-lessons.suite101.com/article.cfm/how_to_scaffold_esl_students_writing

Another good strategy for writing I found was to keep an "error log" When teachers correct papers by non-native speakers, it can be very useful to help the students identify patterns in their writing, instead of just correcting errors, but not knowing it is a reoccuring problem. Students should keep a list or journal of recurring errors and review it before turning in each paper. The teacher can also have a block of time to give activities and practices to help correct the errors that are frequent to try and fix them.

http://www.case.edu/artsci/engl/writing/pedagogy/esl.html