English Learners, Academic Literacy, and Thinking

English Learners, Academic Literacy, and Thinking

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  • Author: Pauline Gibbons
  • Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
  • ISBN: 9780325012032
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

The author presents and discusses in detail five broad areas that enable English learners to participate in high-quality learning across the curriculum: engaging deeply with intellectual contexts; developing academic literacy; employing reading strategies and improving comprehension; gaining writing independence and learning content-area genres; using classroom talk to make sense of new concepts and as a bridge to writing. Based on these areas she then presents guidelines on designing long-term, high-quality instruction that simultaneously provides explicit scaffolding for English learners. Gibbons makes these guidelines an instructional reality through examples of rich activities and tasks that can be used across the curriculum and that support the learning of all students.


Reading and Writing with English Learners

Reading and Writing with English Learners

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  • Author: Valentina Gonzalez
  • Publisher: SEIDLITZ EDUCATION, LLC
  • ISBN: 1732194874
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 143

Reading & Writing with English Learners offers kindergarten through fifth grade reading and writing educators a user-friendly guide and framework for supporting English learners in balanced literacy classrooms. Authors Valentina Gonzalez and Melinda Miller lead readers in exploring the components of Reading & Writing with English Learners with a special eye for increasing the effectiveness of instructional methods and quality of instruction to serve English learners. This book shares practical and effective techniques for accommodating reading and writing instruction to design learning that simultaneously increases literacy and language development. Reading & Writing with English Learners was written for: • K-5 Classroom Teachers • ESL Teachers • Reading and Writing Instructional Coaches • District Leaders Reading & Writing with English Learners includes: • the components of Reading & Writing Workshop • accommodations that support English Learners • high yield practices for Reading & Writing Workshop during remote teaching • the role of phonics • a culturally inclusive booklist • activities that support Reading & Writing Workshop And more!


Literacy Instruction for English Language Learners

Literacy Instruction for English Language Learners

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  • Author: Nancy Cloud
  • Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 260

Literacy Instruction for English Language Learners turns hundreds of ELL studies into dozens of strategies for regular classroom instruction. Nancy Cloud, Fred Genesee, and Else Hamayan have examined the research evidence to determine what works for ELLs. They recommend best practices for teaching English learners to read and write from emergent literacy to primary school and on through middle school and include helpful features that make the research directly accessible to all teachers.


Growing Language and Literacy

Growing Language and Literacy

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  • Author: Andrea Honigsfeld
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9780325099170
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 208

With K-8 teachers in mind, Andrea Honigsfeld offers this user-friendly, accessible resource to address the diverse language and literacy proficiencies that exist in so many U.S. classrooms today. Andrea unpacks the five levels of language acquisition, based on the TESOL framework, and introduces practical strategies that can be applied across grade levels and content areas to support EL students' academic language and literacy development. With an emphasis on culturally and linguistically sustaining pedagogy, peer interaction, and scaffolding, Andrea offers instructional practices organized into five predictable strands at each level of language acquisition: Visual supports Learning by doing Oral language production Reading supports Writing supports Filled with student vignettes, teacher and student work samples, and authentic classroom examples, Growing Language and Literacy will become every teacher's guide to moving their English learners from one stage of language acquisition to the next.


Building Academic Literacy

Building Academic Literacy

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  • Author: Janet I. Angelis
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
  • ISBN: 1475823282
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 198

Building Academic Literacy is a coach-in-a-pocket for educators seeking to build strong academic literacy and higher-order thinking. This book is for anyone with responsibility for instruction – teachers, instructional coaches, professional developers, principals, curriculum leaders, teacher preparation faculty. It provides pathways to developing higher-order thinking in every student and setting.


Scaffolding the Academic Success of Adolescent English Language Learners

Scaffolding the Academic Success of Adolescent English Language Learners

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  • Author: Aída Walqui
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9780914409755
  • Category : English language
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

This book is the result of a decade long effort in school districts such as New York City, Austin, and San Diego to implement challenging instruction that is designed for classrooms that include English learners and that raises the bar and increases engagement for all learners. Classroom vignettes, transcripts of student interactions, and detailed examples of intellectually engaging middle school and high school lessons provide a concrete picture of the instructional approach developed by coauthor Aida Walqui, founder and director of WestEd s Quality Teaching for English Learners (QTEL) initiative.


Scaffolding Language, Scaffolding Learning

Scaffolding Language, Scaffolding Learning

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  • Author: Pauline Gibbons
  • Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
  • ISBN: 9780325056647
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

The bestselling Scaffolding Language, Scaffolding Learning helped tens of thousands of mainstream elementary teachers ensure that their English language learners became full members of the school community with the language and content skills they needed for success. In the highly anticipated Second Edition, Pauline Gibbons updates her classic text with a multitude of practical ideas for the classroom, supported by the latest research in the field of ELL/ESL. With clear directions and classroom tested strategies for supporting students' academic progress, Gibbons shows how the teaching of language can be integrated seamlessly with the teaching of content, and how academic achievement can be boosted without sacrificing our own vision of education to the dictates of knee-jerk accountability. Rich examples of classroom discourse illustrate exactly how the scaffolding process works, while activities to facilitate conversation and higher-level thinking put the latest research on second language learning into action.


Academic Language! Academic Literacy!

Academic Language! Academic Literacy!

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  • Author: Eli R. Johnson
  • Publisher: Corwin Press
  • ISBN: 1412971322
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 305

Develop students' understanding of academic language and watch literacy skills soar! To achieve higher levels of learning, students must be able to understand academic language-the formalized language of instruction found in classrooms, textbooks, and standardized tests. Eli R Johnson conveys a powerful message of the need for teachers to provide explicit academic language instruction for all students, especially English language learners or those struggling with reading. Filled with 36 hands-on strategies, this practical ...


Academic Literacy for English Learners

Academic Literacy for English Learners

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  • Author: Cynthia H. Brock
  • Publisher: Teachers College Press
  • ISBN: 9780807750094
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

Looking for innovative new strategies to support English learners? The authors of this practical guide delve into the social, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds of America’s schoolchildren to discover how today’s teachers can tap into their students’ strengths and background knowledge. Each chapter provides examples from real classrooms where first- through fifth-grade teachers are working to serve students from a wide variety of backgrounds. This powerful guide shows how to integrate best practices across the content areas of science, mathematics, and social studies, while fostering high levels of academic proficiency. Book Features: The newest research on best practices for supporting English Learners in elementary school classrooms. Authors with disciplinary expertise in literacy instruction, English-as-a-Second Language, mathematics, social studies, and science. Adaptable lesson models based on real classroom experiences. Instructions to help teachers design their own integrated classroom instruction. A user-friendly text that includes tips for teachers and a list of children’s literature.


Envisioning Knowledge

Envisioning Knowledge

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  • Author: Judith A. Langer
  • Publisher: Teachers College Press
  • ISBN: 0807770744
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 190

This book by Judith Langer—internationally known scholar in literacy learning—examines how people gain knowledge and become academically literate in the core subjects of English, mathematics, science, and social studies/history. Based on extensive research, it offers a new framework for conceptualizing knowledge development (rather than information collection), and explores how one becomes literate in ways that mark "knowing" in a field. Langer identifies key principles for practice and demonstrates how the framework and the principles together can undergird highly successful instruction across the curriculum. With many examples from middle and high schools, this resource will help educators to plan and implement engaging, exciting, and academically successful programs.