Product description

Description

This teacher-friendly guide is packed with motivating lessons designed to improve the content learning and literacy skills of English language learners (ELLs) in K-8. Offering research-supported strategies that teachers can implement immediately, the book explains how to use content-area texts to support ELLs’ growth in five crucial areas: comprehension, pronunciation, fluency, vocabulary, and grammar.

This hands-on volume is:
Unique: Demonstrates how to build ELLs’ literacy skills and content knowledge simultaneously.
Effective: Research-supported strategies align with both TESOL and Common Core Standards.
Practical: More than two dozen worksheets for classroom use are presented in a large, easy-to-reproduce format.
This title is part of the Teaching Practices That Work Series, edited by Diane Lapp and Douglas Fisher.

Grades:

K-3

Author(s):

Julie Jacobson, Kelly Johnson, & Diane Lapp

Publisher:

Guilford Press

Year:

2011

Pages:

190 pp

Media/Binding:

Softcover

iSBN:

9781609182526