Strategies for Connecting Content and Language for ELLs: Science eBook

Strategies for Connecting Content and Language for ELLs: Science eBook
Author: Eugenia Mora-Flores
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2015-01-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1425895808

This practical guide provides research-based instructional strategies to develop English language learners' academic language in science. Using these strategies, teachers can encourage students to make academic language connections through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Digital resources are included with student reproducibles.

Strategies for Connecting Content and Language for ELLs: Mathematics eBook

Strategies for Connecting Content and Language for ELLs: Mathematics eBook
Author: Eugenia Mora-Flores
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2015-01-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1425895794

This practical guide provides research-based instructional strategies to develop English language learners' academic language in mathematics. Using these strategies, teachers can encourage students to make academic language connections through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Digital resources are included with students reproducibles.

Strategies for Connecting Content and Language for ELL in Language Arts eBook

Strategies for Connecting Content and Language for ELL in Language Arts eBook
Author: Eugenia Mora-Flores
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2015-01-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1425895786

This practical guide provides research-based instructional strategies to develop English language learners' academic language in language arts. Using these strategies, teachers can encourage students to make academic language connections through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Digital resources are included with students reproducibles.

Teaching ELLs Across Content Areas

Teaching ELLs Across Content Areas
Author: Nan Li
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2016-04-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1681234890

The book, Teaching ELLs Across Content Areas: Issues and Strategies, is a unique, useful text written for K–12 teachers. This book is the culmination of the professional knowledge, expertise, and experience from the distinguished authors who represent the entire range of the content areas, including: language arts, science, mathematics, technology, arts, psychology, and Hispanic studies. The ELL school population has reached 5.3 million with the increase rate of 51 percent from School Year 1998-1999 to 2008-2009 (NCELA, 2012). By 2025, one out of four K-12 students will be ELLs (NEA Policy Brief, 2013). The NEA data states that the ELLs are the fastest-growing student population group in our schools and providing them with high-quality services and programs is an important investment in America’s future (NEA Policy Brief, 2013). With the fast growth of the ELLs in schools, basic information and strategies are needed by all K-12 teachers. This book provides useful information and strategies for all K-12 teachers in content classrooms. This book has three significances. First, the book provides the most needed information for K-12 teachers with issues and strategies that are important in content areas to help ELLs’ success. With the fast growth of the ELLs in schools, K-12 teachers need this information in content classrooms. Second, the book fills the gap related to teaching ELLs in content areas. There are some existing books with titles on teaching ELLs across content areas; yet, these books provide general information with fewer books that really address specific content topics. This book is unique because it has the dedicated chapters for specific content areas, e.g., Language Arts, Science, Math, Social Studies with issues and strategies in these respective contents as well as general information, e.g., L2 theories for teachers to know and work with ELLs. Third, the book is reader-friendly with carefully crafted chapters. Each chapter begins with a scenario to catch the reader’s attention, is followed by issues and strategies, and ends with a summary. A scenario begins with each chapter for teachers to get to know the ELLs with the content that focuses on the related information and teaching strategies. With the continued increase in the ELL school population, this book is intended helping all K-12 teachers in content areas have knowledge and strategies to better serve their ELLs.

How the ELL Brain Learns

How the ELL Brain Learns
Author: David A. Sousa
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2011
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1412988349

Raise your ELL success quotient and watch student achievement soar! "How the ELL Brain Learns" combines current research on how the brain learns language with strategies for teaching English language learners. Award-winning author and brain research expert David A. Sousa describes the linguistic reorganization needed to acquire another language after the age of 5 years. He supplements this knowledge with immediately applicable tools, including: A self-assessment pretest for gauging your understanding of how the brain learns languages Brain-compatible strategies for teaching both English learners across content areas An entire chapter about how to detect English language learning problems

Teaching Social Studies to English Language Learners

Teaching Social Studies to English Language Learners
Author: Bárbara C. Cruz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2013-03-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136205128

Teaching Social Studies to English Language Learners provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of both the challenges that face English language learners (ELLs) and ways in which educators might address them in the social studies classroom. The authors offer context-specific strategies for the full range of the social studies curriculum, including geography, U.S. history, world history, economics, and government. These practical instructional strategies will effectively engage learners and can be incorporated as a regular part of instruction in any classroom. An annotated list of web and print resources completes the volume, making this a valuable reference to help social studies teachers meet the challenges of including all learners in effective instruction. Features and updates to this new edition include: • An updated and streamlined Part 1 provides an essential overview of ELL theory in a social studies specific-context. • "Teaching Tips" offer helpful suggestions and ideas for creating and modifying lesson plans to be inclusive of ELLs. • Additional practical examples and new pedagogical elements in Part 3 include more visuals, suggestions for harnessing new technologies, discussion questions, and reflection points. • New material that takes into account the demands of the Common Core State Standards, as well as updates to the web and print resources in Part 4.

Integrating the Arts Across the Content Areas

Integrating the Arts Across the Content Areas
Author: Donovan, Lisa
Publisher: Shell Education
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2017-03-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1618139053

Bring the arts back into the classroom with arts-based activities and strategies to use in language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies instruction. Developed in conjunction with Lesley University, this resource helps teachers to gain a better understanding of why and how to use the arts to reach and engage students. Developed to help motivate disengaged students, this professional resource provides activities, concrete examples, and stories from teachers already implementing art-based curriculum. The strategies are presented in categories that include: dramatic movement, storytelling, poetry, music/rhythm, and visual arts. This resource supports College and Career Readiness Standards.

From Equity Insights to Action

From Equity Insights to Action
Author: Andrea M. Honigsfeld
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2021-07-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1071855042

Your Greatest Assets are Right Before Your Eyes: Your Multilingual Learners! Equity for multilingual learners (MLLs) means that students’ cultural and linguistic identities, backgrounds, and experiences are recognized as valued, rich sources of knowledge and their academic, linguistic, literacy, and social–emotional growth is ensured to the fullest potential. This ready-to-use guide offers practical, classroom-level strategies for educators seeking thoughtful, research-informed, and accessible information on how to champion equity for MLLs in a post-COVID era. Focused on the deliberate daily actions that all teachers of multilingual learners can take, this resource guide captures a compelling advocacy framework for culturally and linguistically responsive equity work, including Authentic examples of how educators understand and support MLLs through an equity lens Student portraits of multilingual learners’ experiences Accessible answers to essential how-to questions Robust professional learning activities Access to print and online resources for additional information Thoughtful probes throughout the guide help teachers develop student agency and foster pathways in their own practice and communication with multilingual learners.

Secondary Science Teaching for English Learners

Secondary Science Teaching for English Learners
Author: Edward G. Lyon
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2016-06-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1442231270

Secondary Science Teaching for English Learners: Developing Supportive and Responsive Learning Context for Sense-making and Language Development provides a resource for multiple audiences, including pre- and in-service secondary science teachers, science teacher educators, instructional coaches, curriculum specialists, and administrators, to learn about a research-based approach to teaching science that responds to the growing population of English learners in the United States. The book offers clear definitions of pedagogical practices supported by classroom examples and a cohesive framework for teaching science in linguistically diverse classrooms. The Secondary Science Teaching with English Language and Literacy Acquisition (or SSTELLA) Framework addresses how learning science is enhanced through meaningful and relevant learning experiences that integrate discipline-specific literacy. In particular, four core science teaching practices are described: (1) contextualized science activity, (2) scientific sense-making through scientific and engineering practices, (3) scientific discourse, and (4) English language and disciplinary literacy development. These four core practices are supported by sound theory and research based on unscripted guidelines and flexible modifications of science lessons. Moreover, the four interrelated practices promote students’ use of core science ideas while reading, writing, talking, and doing science, thus reflecting principles from Next Generation Science Standards, Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, and English language proficiency standards. Secondary Science Teaching provides readers with a historical and theoretical basis for integrating language, literacy, and science in multilingual science classrooms, and well as explicit models and guided support teachers in enacting effective teaching practices in the classroom, including comparative vignettes to distinguish between different types of classroom practice.