From Words to Wisdom: Supporting Academic Language Use in PreK–3rd Grade (Language and Literacy Series)

This practical guide shows teachers how to introduce academic language to young children, with an emphasis on appreciating and leveraging linguistic diversity. New educational standards are asking students to master content-area concepts and increasingly complex texts in earlier grades. This practitioner-friendly text provides instructional materials, sample dialogues, and assessment tools to facilitate academic language use in PreK-3 classrooms. The authors describe the word, sentence, and discourse levels of academic language, while encouraging teachers and students to consider purpose, participants, discipline, and context. Strategies are provided to help readers adapt language for a variety of academic purposes across mathematics, science, play, mealtimes, and ELA instruction. The text includes discussion questions, reproducible activities, planning materials, assessment tools, and handouts to facilitate smooth implementation into classroom practice. From Words to Wisdom will empower teachers to build bridges to academic success for all young learners. Book Features: <ul> <li>Expands teachers' understanding of academic language beyond vocabulary to include syntax and discourse-level features.</li> <li>Includes specific strategies, activities, and suggestions for teaching from and with academic language across multiple settings and disciplines.</li> <li>Addresses all students, including multilingual and linguistically diverse speakers.</li> <li>Incorporates user-friendly features, such as text boxes, vignettes, assessment protocols, and sample teaching materials.</li> </ul>

Reference

Barnes, Erica M.

Grifenhagen, Jill F.

DICKINSON, DAVID K.

Words, Language & Grammar

Teachers' College Press

Product Description This practical guide shows teachers how to introduce academic language to young children, with an emphasis on appreciating and leveraging linguistic diversity. New educational standards are asking students to master content-area concepts and increasingly complex texts in earlier grades. This practitioner-friendly text provides instructional materials, sample dialogues, and assessment tools to facilitate academic language use in PreK–3 classrooms. The authors describe the word, sentence, and discourse levels of academic language, while encouraging teachers and students to consider purpose, participants, discipline, and context. Strategies are provided to help readers adapt language for a variety of academic purposes across mathematics, science, play, mealtimes, and ELA instruction. The text includes discussion questions, reproducible activities, planning materials, assessment tools, and handouts to facilitate smooth implementation into classroom practice. From Words to Wisdom will empower teachers to build bridges to academic success for all young learners. Book Features:Expands teachers’ understanding of academic language beyond vocabulary to include syntax and discourse-level features.Includes specific strategies, activities, and suggestions for teaching from and with academic language across multiple settings and disciplines.Addresses all students, including multilingual and linguistically diverse speakers.Incorporates user-friendly features, such as text boxes, vignettes, assessment protocols, and sample teaching materials. Review “By making a case for academic language, these authors are helping us all open a gateway for children to become members of a language community highly valued in school learning. It may become one of the most prized assets that we can give to our young children.”―From the Foreword by Susan B. Neuman, professor of childhood and literacy education, New York University“This book should be required reading for all teachers so that all children are provided with high-quality classroom language environments that ensure their future success. It is packed full of strategies and activities for integrating academic language throughout the school day. With thoughtful guidance for instruction across subject areas, teachers will learn to identify, model, and explicitly teach academic language. As a developmental psychologist who works with children from linguistically diverse backgrounds, I appreciated the real-world examples of classroom-based academic language used with young children―a testament that teachers have the power to build classrooms that support academic language across a variety of settings.”―Perla B. Gámez, associate professor, Loyola University Chicago About the Author Erica M. Barnes is an associate professor in the Department of Literacy Teaching and Learning at the University of Albany and a former teacher, teacher consultant, and progress monitoring specialist. Jill F. Grifenhagen is an assistant professor of literacy education at North Carolina State University and a former early elementary classroom teacher and instructional coach. David K. Dickinson is professor emeritus at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College.

Early Literacy Instruction and Intervention: The Interactive Strategies Approach

This established text and teacher resource is now in a revised and updated third edition, with a broader focus on whole-class instruction as well as small-group and individualized intervention. The evidence-based Interactive Strategies Approach (ISA) provides a clear framework for supporting literacy development in grades K-3, particularly for students who experience reading difficulties. The book gives teachers the knowledge needed to more effectively use existing curricular materials to meet core instructional goals in the areas of phonemic awareness, phonics, word solving/word learning, vocabulary and language skills, and comprehension. Twenty-six reproducible forms can be copied from the book or downloaded and printed from the companion website. Of special value, the website also features approximately 200 pages of additional printable assessment tools and instructional resources. Prior edition title: Early Intervention for Reading Difficulties.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; New to This Edition *Increased attention to whole-class instruction, teaching linguistically diverse students, writing development, and language-literacy connections. *More examples of explicit instructional language, including sample scripts. *Incorporates the latest research about early literacy development and difficulties. *End-of-chapter "key points" and an end-of-book glossary. *Additional online-only reproducible tools, including ISA lesson sheets. &nbsp;

Education & Teaching

Scanlon, Donna M.

Anderson, Kimberly L.

Sweeney, Joan M.

Schools & Teaching

The Guilford Press

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