
Teaching for Biliteracy
Strengthening Bridges Between Languages
Caslon, Inc. (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 30. November 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-934000-09-0 (ISBN)
Description
Bridge for cross-language transfer!
Beeman and Urow introduce the powerful notion of the Bridge to the biliteracy field in this practical professional development guide for teachers, administrators, and leadership teams. The Bridge is the instructional moment when teachers purposefully bring the two languages together, strategically guiding bilingual learners to:
- Transfer the academic content they have learned in one language to the other
- Engage in contrastive analysis
- Develop academic English and Spanish across the content areas
- Read and write grade-level texts across the curriculum
- Develop metalinguistic awareness
The biliteracy unit framework featured in this book is compatible with literacy frameworks and programs used in K-12 schools today.
Beeman and Urow introduce the powerful notion of the Bridge to the biliteracy field in this practical professional development guide for teachers, administrators, and leadership teams. The Bridge is the instructional moment when teachers purposefully bring the two languages together, strategically guiding bilingual learners to:
- Transfer the academic content they have learned in one language to the other
- Engage in contrastive analysis
- Develop academic English and Spanish across the content areas
- Read and write grade-level texts across the curriculum
- Develop metalinguistic awareness
The biliteracy unit framework featured in this book is compatible with literacy frameworks and programs used in K-12 schools today.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
4600 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-934000-09-0 (9781934000090)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
- Chapter One: Foundations in Teaching for Biliteracy
- Chapter Two: Students: A Multilangual Perspective
- Chapter Three: Teachers: Capitlizing on Life Experiences and Diversity
- Chapter Four: Planning the Strategic Use of Two Languages
- Chapter Five: Language Resources, Lingustic Creativity, and Cultural
- Chapter Six Building a Background Knowledge
- Chapter Seven: Reading Comprehnsion
- Chapter Eight: Writing: A Multilingual Perspective
- Chapter Nine: Word Study and Fluency: The Dictado and Other Authentic Strategies
- Chapter Ten: The Bridge: Strengthening Connections between Languages
- Glossary
- How Spanish Works
- Reference
- Index
- Chapter Two: Students: A Multilangual Perspective
- Chapter Three: Teachers: Capitlizing on Life Experiences and Diversity
- Chapter Four: Planning the Strategic Use of Two Languages
- Chapter Five: Language Resources, Lingustic Creativity, and Cultural
- Chapter Six Building a Background Knowledge
- Chapter Seven: Reading Comprehnsion
- Chapter Eight: Writing: A Multilingual Perspective
- Chapter Nine: Word Study and Fluency: The Dictado and Other Authentic Strategies
- Chapter Ten: The Bridge: Strengthening Connections between Languages
- Glossary
- How Spanish Works
- Reference
- Index