2. Intermediate: The student uses "high-frequency words but is still receptive"(Carrizales, 2018A) but the student is able to use more high-frequency words in their writing. The student "writes in detailed simple sentences and attempts irregular past tense, uses verbs in present progressive, uses prepositions, pronouns, articles, and adjectives." (Carrizales, 2018A). The students also "connect ideas with time markers" (Carrizales, 2018A) such as after that. These strategies help students to become advanced writers by guiding students to create more mature writing that is detailed.
Show not tell: Show not Tell helps students to add more details to their writing to explain their ideas. Students can also peer review each other's writing to find places where the writer could add more details so the reader can better understand the story. "Peer review is a valuable element in the writing process" (Harmer, 2004, p. 115).
Sentence combing: Sentence combining helps students to combine 2 sentences and keep all the meaning of the first 2 sentences. "Practice in sentence combining assist students in producing more mature writing" (Peregoy & Boyle, 2013, p. 258), this helps students more become advanced writers.
Sentence shorting: Sentence shorting helps students to turn long and wordy sentences into concise sentences that still contain all the meaning. This skill helps students to become advanced writers.
Sentence modeling: "Sentence models help intermediate-level writers move from a few simple sentences to more complex structures, building confidence that students need to make the transition from beginning to intermediate phases and beyond" (Peregoy & Boyle, 2013, p. 260).
Mapping: Mapping helps students to think about their ideas before they start writing, students first generate all words that go with a certain idea or object. Next students move those words in categories. This helps students to add details to writing and add adjectives.