The Swirl Method

"In an increasingly global society where English is in high demand, multilingual children require active support to succeed not only as language learners, but also as students engaging with core lesson materials in a new foreign language. In The SWIRL Method: Supporting Multilingual Learners as They Speak, Write, Interact, Read, and Listen, Susan B. Katz offers K-12 teachers of English learners a toolbox full of over one hundred strategies that give students opportunities to SWIRL: speak, write, interact, read, and listen to English to become confident, competent, and proficient in the language. SWIRL provides a plethora of practical, applicable activities, lessons, and strategies that are both research based and time tested. The goal is to incorporate activities that require students to speak, write, interact, read, and listen during almost every lesson. Balancing the SWIRL method allows students to practice English in real, applicable ways"--