Many middle school and high school students are recent immigrants or long-term English language learners who struggle with the academic language needed to read content-area textbooks and write papers for their classes. Likewise, many native speakers of English find content-area classes a challenge. Secondary teachers have little time to teach academic reading and writing skills because they must cover a great deal of content in their social studies, science, math, or language arts classes.
Academic Language for English Language Learners and Struggling Readers provides the information busy secondary teachers need to work effectively with English learners and struggling readers.
Grounded in scientific research and proven effective, this beautifully illustrated anthology meets the need of all learners in today's diverse classrooms. It includes rich, authentic literature and content-area reading.
Grounded in scientific research and proven effective, this beautifully illustrated anthology meets the need of all learners in today's diverse classrooms. It includes rich, authentic literature and content-area reading.
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. 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.
