Teaching English language learners content and language in middle and secondary mainstream classrooms /
Teaching English Language Learners: Content and Language in Middle and Secondary Mainstream Classrooms provides a reader-friendly guide to implementing and assessing high-level, content-area instruction for English Language Learners. Beginning with an overview of second language acquisition and the...
| Main Author: | Colombo, Michaela. |
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| Other Authors: | Furbush, Dana. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Los Angeles :
SAGE,
[2009]
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| Physical Description: |
xvii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preparing to teach English language learners. Demographics, history, and the changing roles of teachers
- Second-language acquisition: what mainstream teachers need to know
- Culture, adolescents, and culturally responsive instruction
- Academic literacy in the content areas
- Planning for enduring understanding
- Connecting with context: assessments and essential questions
- Assessing content and language
- Making content comprehensible
- Building academic language
- Putting it together in content-area classrooms. Putting it together in the science classroom
- Putting it together in the mathematics classroom
- Putting it together in the history classroom
- Putting it together in the English language arts classroom.