Over the course of the last century, American fiction writers and poets have used sports figures and sporting events in order to make significant points on themes of identity as they are connected to gender, race, class, and nationality. The contributors to this volume examine American literature that uses sports as a trope to explore or disturb core values of this country. They explore individual works in order to uncover the rich connections between those works' use of sports and issues of importance to American culture from approximately 1920 to the end of the twentieth century.
Focusing on four general themes, this volume offers a range of commentary on a variety of American literature. The first section features essays that explain how sports are used by writers to explore or critique American values. The next two sections contain essays that investigate the ways in which writers have used sports to express ideas about race, class, and gender. The final section turns to questions of aesthetics, featuring essays that concentrate on form, technique, and language itself. Together, contributors cover a number of literary works that feature a wide variety of sports, from the expected (baseball) to the more surprising (body building and wilderness adventuring).

What Are the Rest of My Kids Doing?: Fostering Independence in the K-2 Reading Workshop

Literature & Fiction

Moses, Lindsey

Ogden, Meridith

History & Criticism

Heinemann

This book is one of the few that focuses on oral language development, a crucial but often overlooked component of academic development for ELLs. It helps fill a gap in the professional resources teachers need to help their English language learners reach high levels of oral and written English proficiency. -David and Yvonne Freeman Authors of Teaching Reading in Multilingual Classrooms and Essential Linguistics Oral reading is powerful enough to simultaneously support every student's comprehension learning and scaffold English language learners' progress toward proficiency. But not just any kind of oral reading will do. To help everyone in your class, you need effective, engaging strategies that can motivate all readers and help them learn to make meaning with texts-the kind you'll find in Comprehension and English Language Learners. The 25 oral reading strategies in Comprehension and English Language Learners support students with differing levels of English proficiency during regular reading instruction-from beginners to those completely comfortable with their new language. Michael Opitz (coauthor of Goodbye Round Robin, Updated Edition) and Lindsey Moses help you go beyond oral reading activities such as round robin or popcorn reading that have no research base and that can actually inhibit reading progress. With their strategies, you'll instead help English language learners: 
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<li>develop and monitor reading and listening comprehension</li> <li>evaluate texts and engage with authors</li> <li>learn social and academic vocabulary</li> <li>connect writing, reading, speaking, listening, and viewing</li> <li>get motivated to read on their own.</li> </ul> In addition, Opitz and Moses make determining students' level of English proficiency easier with a primer on effective ELL assessment. They show you how each strategy can work within or across levels to help English learners make progress or consolidate gains. Each strategy is clearly presented and ready to use today with teaching suggestions, classroom examples, suggested children's literature, and online resources. Supplement your silent-reading program with oral reading that works. Read Comprehension and English Language Learners and teach with its strategies. Then listen to your English language learners to hear how powerful oral reading can be for developing comprehension.

Comprehension and English Language Learners: 25 Oral Reading Strategies That Cross Proficiency Levels

Reference

Freeman, David E.

Freeman, Yvonne S.

Opitz, Michael F.

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Practical instructional ideas, lessons, and differentiation strategies to support English learners in diverse classroom settings With classrooms that are more diverse than ever before, how can we support English learners in ways that help them reap the same benefits from reading workshop that our English speaking students do? Lindsey Moses draws on her years of experience in classrooms to provide answers to teachers' most common questions about getting started in a linguistically diverse workshop setting. She offers a wealth of practical ideas for supporting English learners through each component of the reading workshop. With research-based tips and guidance, Lindsey shares effective ways to modify your routines to meet the needs of every student in your classroom, including: <ul>
<li>Planning and implementing units of study that are supportive of English learners</li> <li>Providing guided learning experiences for English learners during independent workshop time</li> <li>Creating learning opportunities for English learners to engage in meaningful experiences with both literature and informational texts.</li> </ul>
Lindsey's instructional ideas, lesson examples, children's literature suggestions, and differentiation strategies give you all the tools you need to implement a reading workshop that is as effective for your English learners as it is for your English speakers.

Supporting English Learners in the Reading Workshop

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Comprehension and English Language Learners (Print eBook Bundle): 25 Oral Reading Strategies That Cross Proficiency Levels

In her work with teachers around the country, Lindsey Moses hears this common frustration among those who work with our youngest readers: "During reading workshop, what kinds of meaningful work can students be doing independently, while I confer one-on-one or with small groups?" Lindsey and First grade teacher Meridith Ogden help you move beyond assigning busy work to providing purposeful learning experiences that build independence over the year. Their how-to suggestions including lesson plans, assessment tools, student samples, and classroom vignettes show how a traditional workshop approach can be easily adapted to meet the needs of our very young readers. Take the anxiety out of reading workshop with Lindsey and Meridith's research-based, proven strategies for scaffolding independence for K-2 students.

Designed for every K-5 classroom teacher, Supporting Multilingual Learners offers strategies to support the literacy development of children who speak multiple languages.&nbsp; Organized by 10 research-based, easy-to-use scaffolds, this practical guide shares: <ul> <li>50 strategies that teachers can use proactively or to respond to student needs</li> <li>Downloadable online planning templates</li> <li>Vignettes across grade levels showing the strategies in action</li> <li>Reflection questions for educators</li> </ul> Each chapter focuses on one scaffold and 5 instructional "Strategies in Action" that fit within that scaffold, providing classroom examples of the strategies in use. Learn how to put multilingual learners front and center in your classroom with inclusive and supportive best practices.

Supporting Multilingual Learners (Paperback): 50 Strategies for Language and Literacy Instruction

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What Are the Rest of My Kids Doing?: Fostering Independence in the K-2 Reading Workshop

Comprehension and English Language Learners: 25 Oral Reading Strategies That Cross Proficiency Levels

Supporting English Learners in the Reading Workshop

Comprehension and English Language Learners (Print eBook Bundle): 25 Oral Reading Strategies That Cross Proficiency Levels

What Are the Rest of My Kids Doing?: Fostering Independence in the K-2 Reading Workshop

Supporting Multilingual Learners (Paperback): 50 Strategies for Language and Literacy Instruction