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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807657503321

Autore

Swinney Ruth

Titolo

Connecting content and academic language for English learners and struggling students, grades 2-6 / / Ruth Swinney, Patricia Velasco ; foreword by Ofelia Garcia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin, , [2011]

�2011

ISBN

1-4522-3621-6

1-4522-2420-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 180 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Gale eBooks

Classificazione

EDU005000

Disciplina

372.6044

Soggetti

Content area reading

Language arts (Elementary)

Reading - Remedial teaching

English language - Study and teaching (Elementary) - Foreign speakers

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Foreword: Finding Cats and Dogs in the Zoo""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Authors""; ""Part I - The Language Component: From Social to Academic Language""; ""Introduction - Making Content Accessible to English Learners and Struggling Students""; ""Chapter 1 - Building Language: How and Why""; ""Chapter 2 - From Social to Academic Language: A Curriculum of Talk""; ""Chapter 3 - Structures of Balanced Literacy That Support English Language Learners and Struggling Students""

""Part II - The Lesson Component: Sample Units to Integrate Content and Language Goals""""Chapter 4 - Language Arts Unit: Memoir (Grades 3�6)""; ""Chapter 5 - Social Studies Unit: Colonial Times and the American Revolution (Grade 4)""; ""Chapter 6 - Science Unit: Plant and Animal Adaptations (Grades 5�6)""; ""Chapter 7 - Thematic Unit: The Rainforest (Grades 2�3)""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

Create unit plans that will empower your EL students  Award-winning teacher Ruth Swinney and Harvard graduate Patricia Velasco focus on the careful planning needed to develop the academic language of all



students. For English learners especially, it is critically important to integrate language development with content. What makes this book unlike any other is the detailed guidance it provides in:     Encouraging verbal expression in the classroom    Planning units that link language with content    Using shared reading and writing, read alouds, and conversation