Teaching Beginner ELLs Using Picture Books

Teaching Beginner ELLs Using Picture Books
Author: Ana Lado
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2012-09-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1452235236

For beginning ELLs, a picture really is worth a thousand words! Picture books can unlock puzzling cultural and social meanings for students at all ages and grade levels. ELL educator Ana Lado illustrates how picture books are an especially useful tool for building important language and social foundations--foundations that students may miss through traditional instruction. Lado provides all the tools you need to engage your ELLs with picture books, including how to design lesson plans around themed units, select appropriate picture books using specific criteria, incorporate fun and engaging strategies like singing and reenacting, integrate picture-book learning to facilitate development of English language proficiency. In addition, you will gain access to a searchable online database to find just the right book for your lessons, based on author, title, genre, and English language proficiency level. With practical classroom-friendly techniques, Teaching Beginner ELLs Using Picture Books helps you transform your lessons into richly illustrated learning opportunities.

Teaching Numeracy

Teaching Numeracy
Author: Margie Pearse
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2011-03-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1452238855

"Margie Pearse and Katie Walton have given us a rich treasury of research-based beat math practices. This book offers practical, engaging numeracy strategies to support our struggling students and sets the bar high for our advanced young mathematicians." —Mary Dunwoody, Director of Secondary Curriculum and Professional Development Southeast Delco School District, Folcroft, PA Transform mathematics learning from "doing" to "thinking" Do some of your students arrive at wildly wrong answers to mathematical problems but have no idea why? If so, they are not alone. Many students lack basic numeracy—the ability to think through the math logically, solve problems, and apply math outside the classroom. This book outlines nine critical thinking habits that foster numeracy and details practical ways to incorporate those habits into instruction. Referencing the new common core standards, NCTM standards, and established literacy practices, the authors include "How Can I Do This in My Math Class...Tomorrow?" applications throughout the book that shows you how to: Monitor and repair students′ understanding Represent mathematics nonlinguistically Develop students′ mathematics vocabulary Create numeracy-rich lesson plans Teaching Numeracy will help you move your students from simply "doing the math" to a deeper understanding of how to think through the math.

Language-Based Approaches to Support Reading Comprehension

Language-Based Approaches to Support Reading Comprehension
Author: Francine Falk-Ross
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2014-07-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1442229896

Language-Based Approaches to Support Reading Comprehension takes a closer look at students who are frequently marginalized by language differences in the classroom, whether by teachers’ oversight or simply the lack of information. In order to remedy this situation, Falk-Ross and the contributing authors offer their different perspectives on supporting English language learners (ELLs) through specific strategies for assessment and instruction. Each chapter presents a specific issue and challenge, supportive research and up-to-date information, classroom implications and strategies, and case study applications relating to the particular perspective of literacy development for ELLs of middle-level ages.

New Visions for Linking Literature and Mathematics

New Visions for Linking Literature and Mathematics
Author: David Jackman Whitin
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte)
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Features math-related literature and offers suggestions for using it effectively in the K-6 classroom. Also includes specific criteria for evaluating math-related books and explicit connections between mathematics and English language arts Standards.

How Long or How Wide?

How Long or How Wide?
Author: Brian P. Cleary
Publisher: Lerner Digital ™
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2017-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1512478768

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Brian Cleary and Brian Gable bring their trademark sense of humor to the subject of measuring length. A rhyming text filled with funny examples explains how to use and compare metric and U.S. customary units of length. Readers are also introduced to the tools they need to measure length—rulers, metersticks, and more.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Author: Brian Selznick
Publisher: Scholastic
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2015-09-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1407166573

An orphan and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy train station. He desperately believes a broken automaton will make his dreams come true. But when his world collides with an eccentric girl and a bitter old man, Hugo's undercover life are put in jeopardy. Turn the pages, follow the illustrations and enter an unforgettable new world!

The Pillars of the Earth

The Pillars of the Earth
Author: Ken Follett
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 1009
Release: 2010-06-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101442190

#1 New York Times Bestseller Oprah's Book Club Selection The “extraordinary . . . monumental masterpiece” (Booklist) that changed the course of Ken Follett’s already phenomenal career—and begins where its prequel, The Evening and the Morning, ended. “Follett risks all and comes out a clear winner,” extolled Publishers Weekly on the release of The Pillars of the Earth. A departure for the bestselling thriller writer, the historical epic stunned readers and critics alike with its ambitious scope and gripping humanity. Today, it stands as a testament to Follett’s unassailable command of the written word and to his universal appeal. The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known . . . of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect—a man divided in his soul . . . of the beautiful, elusive Lady Aliena, haunted by a secret shame . . . and of a struggle between good and evil that will turn church against state and brother against brother. A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy, and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, this is Ken Follett’s historical masterpiece.

If He Had Been with Me

If He Had Been with Me
Author: Laura Nowlin
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2013-04-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1402277849

If he had been with me everything would have been different... I wasn't with Finn on that August night. But I should've been. It was raining, of course. And he and Sylvie were arguing as he drove down the slick road. No one ever says what they were arguing about. Other people think it's not important. They do not know there is another story. The story that lurks between the facts. What they do not know—the cause of the argument—is crucial. So let me tell you...

Fly High!

Fly High!
Author: Louise Borden
Publisher: Perfection Learning
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: African American women air pilots
ISBN: 9780756929350

This book discusses the life of the determined African American woman who went all the way to France in order to earn her pilot's license in 1921.