Teachers across the country are finding their classrooms increasingly diverse, and this booklet is designed to help teachers cater to the needs of English language learners, both in ESL and non-ESL classrooms. By examining the background of English language learners, this booklet helps teachers to create a framework for organizing the classroom environment. Practical classroom strategies for literacy and content education are also emphasized.

What Every Teacher Should Know About: English Language Learners

Education & Teaching

Vardell, Sylvia M.

Young, Terrell A.

Hadaway, Nancy L.

Schools & Teaching

Pearson

Teachers across the country are finding their classrooms increasingly diverse, and this booklet is designed to help teachers cater to the needs of English language learners, both in ESL and non-ESL classrooms. By examining the background of English language learners, this booklet helps teachers to create a framework for organizing the classroom environment. Practical classroom strategies for literacy and content education are also emphasized. As a part of the What Every Teacher Should Know About Series, this guide can be packaged for free with a core Education text (with each additional WETSKA guide added at a cost of $2 net to the bookstore) and can also be purchased individually.

What Every Teacher Should Know About English Language Learners

Allyn&Bacon

This book takes a literature-based approach to how children learn language and how it is taught in today's diverse K-12 classrooms. The material is based on the belief that literature offers the most effective instructional approach for English language learners. The book offers meaningful reading, writing, speaking, and listening activities, as well as new understandings about the forms and functions of written language. This is the first book that offers instructors guidance in expanding the range of materials they use for teaching ESL by going beyond the standard texts to include books of all kinds - children's literature, trade books, magazines, and other media. "Voices from the Classroom: Scenarios from K-12 classrooms with English language learners" are provided throughout the chapters, offering practical stories from teachers' points of view. K-12 Educators with diverse student populations.

Literature-Based Instruction with English Language Learners, K-12

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Matching Books and Readers: Helping English Learners in Grades K-6 (Solving Problems in the Teaching of Literacy)

Providing practical guidance and resources, this book helps teachers harness the power of children's literature for developing ELLs' literacy skills and language proficiency. The authors show how carefully selected fiction, nonfiction, and poetry can support students' learning across the curriculum. Criteria and guiding questions are presented for matching books and readers based on text features, literacy and language proficiency, and student background knowledge and interests. Interspersed throughout are essays and poems by well-known children's authors that connect in a personal way with the themes explored in the chapters. The annotated bibliography features over 600 engaging, culturally relevant trade titles.

Words, Language & Grammar

The Guilford Press

Providing practical guidance and resources, this book helps teachers harness the power of children's literature for developing ELLs' literacy skills and language proficiency. The authors show how carefully selected fiction, nonfiction, and poetry can support students' learning across the curriculum. Criteria and guiding questions are presented for matching books and readers based on text features, literacy and language proficiency, and student background knowledge and interests. Interspersed throughout are essays and poems by well-known children's authors that connect in a personal way with the themes explored in the chapters. The annotated bibliography features over 600 engaging, culturally relevant trade titles.

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What Every Teacher Should Know About: English Language Learners

What Every Teacher Should Know About English Language Learners

Literature-Based Instruction with English Language Learners, K-12

Matching Books and Readers: Helping English Learners in Grades K-6 (Solving Problems in the Teaching of Literacy)

Matching Books and Readers: Helping English Learners in Grades K-6 (Solving Problems in the Teaching of Literacy)