English Learners, Academic Literacy, and Thinking: Learning in the Challenge Zone
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- Synopsis
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Deep understanding, critical thinking, subject knowledge, and control of academic literacy are goals we have for all our students. The challenge for teachers is to find a way of teaching that helps everyone, including English learners, to reach these high expectations. In English Learners, Academic Literacy, and Thinking, the author presents an action-oriented approach that gives English learners high-level support to match our high expectations. Focusing on the middle grades of school, she shows how to plan rigorous, literacy-oriented, content-based instruction and illustrates what a high-challenge, high-support curriculum looks like in practice.
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. The author makes these guidelines an instructional reality through dozens of examples of rich activities and tasks that can be used across the curriculum and that support the learning of all students. English Learners, Academic Literacy, and Thinking supports teachers with doable plans for instruction, reflection questions for individual or group study together, and suggestions for further reading. The book is a valuable resource for in-service training and college courses and provides an ideal basis for a school wide response to the growing challenges of raising the achievement of English language learners.
- Copyright:
- 2009
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 206 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780325012032
- Publisher:
- Heinemann
- Date of Addition:
- 11/28/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Pauline Gibbons
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Education, Language Arts
- Submitted By:
- Worth Trust
- Proofread By:
- Worth Trust
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.