Content-Area Conversations: How to Plan Discussion-Based Lessons for Diverse Language Learners

Teachers at any grade level, in any content area, will find a wide variety of strategies in this book to help students simultaneously learn English and learn in English. Drawing both on decades of research data and on the authors real-life experiences as teachers of English language learners, this book is replete with ideas for fostering real academic discourse in classrooms.

Content-Area Conversations: How to Plan Discussion-Based Lessons for Diverse Language Learners is a practical, hands-on guide to creating and managing environments that spur sophisticated levels of student communication, both oral and written. Paying special attention to the needs of English language learners, the authors
- detail research-based steps for designing lessons that spark student talk
- share real-life classroom scenarios and dialogues that bring theory to life
- describe easy-to-use assessments for all grade levels
- provide rubrics, sentence frames, and other imaginative tools that encourage academic communication
- offer guiding questions to help teachers plan instruction

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NB: Index pages are not included.