Connecting Content And Language For English Language Learners

Bridge the gap between content and language and put research into practice to instruct English language learners with strategies that meet their needs in language development and literacy.

CD contains reproducible teacher resource materials and student activity pages.

Develop English language learners' academic language in social studies through the strategies presented in this digital resource. Encourage students to make academic language connections through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This practical guide provides research-based instructional strategies to ensure comprehensible input and helps promote students' oral language development. By implementing the strategies in this e-book, teachers will be empowered with the knowledge and guidance they need to create the rich and rigorous learning environment all students deserve. Digital resources are included with students reproducibles.

Develop English language learners' academic language in language arts through the strategies presented in this digital resource. Encourage students to make academic language connections through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This practical guide provides research-based instructional strategies to ensure comprehensible input and helps promote students' oral language development. By implementing the strategies in this e-book, teachers will be empowered with the knowledge and guidance they need to create the rich and rigorous learning environment all students deserve. Digital resources are included with students reproducibles.

Create unit plans that will empower your EL students Award-winning teacher Ruth Swinney and Harvard graduate Patricia Velasco focus on the careful planning needed to develop the academic language of all students. For English learners especially, it is critically important to integrate language development with content. What makes this book unlike any other is the detailed guidance it provides in: Encouraging verbal expression in the classroom Planning units that link language with content Using shared reading and writing, read alouds, and conversation

This book answers your key questions about educating English Language Learners (ELLs) and offers detailed guidance and concrete applications for your classroom. Designed as a one-stop-shop for classroom teachers of all grade levels and content areas, this book is chock full of essential information, delivered in a practical, concise format. In each chapter, you will find checklists, instructional strategies, tables, tools and ideas for next steps. The resources and examples provided are easy to implement and can be used the next day in your teaching. Topics addressed include: Getting to know your ELLs Considering how culture, language and academic background impact learning Bridging the home/school connection Pairing content and language objectives Gauging learner progress Collaborating with ELL staff Much more!

Develop English language learners' academic language in mathematics through the strategies presented in this digital resource. Encourage students to make academic language connections through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This practical guide provides research-based instructional strategies to ensure comprehensible input and helps promote students' oral language development. By implementing the strategies in this e-book, teachers will be empowered with the knowledge and guidance they need to create the rich and rigorous learning environment all students deserve. Digital resources are included with students reproducibles.

In this supremely practical book, award-winning principal Ruth Swinney and college professor Patricia Velasco focus on the careful planning needed to develop the academic language of all students. For English learners especially, it is critically important to integrate language development with the content that the curriculum demands. What makes this book unlike any other is the detailed guidance it provides to: help students advance from social to academic language; encourage verbal expression in the classroom; plan language arts, social studies, and science lessons that connect language and content; and use shared reading and writing, read alouds, and conversation to teach language skills. Hands-on tools include graphic organizers, sample lesson plans, concept maps, semantic webbing, word walls, and worksheets, and everything teachers need to help emergent bilingual and struggling students master the academic language they need to excel in school.