Breaking Through
Effective Instruction & Assessment for Reaching English Learners
1st Edition
Published on 14. May 2012
224 pages
978-1-936765-37-9 (ISBN)
Description
Utilizing new research and field studies, this book provides a whole-school approach to helping English learners achieve academically while they learn English. Discover why ELs learn better when language, literacy, and subject matter are integrated, and learn how to prepare all teachers in a school to meet the needs of this growing student population.
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Content
- Intro
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Contents
- About the Editor
- Introduction
- Chapter One About the Author
- Chapter 1: Why We Need a New Way of Schooling Language-Minority Children
- Chapter 2 About the Author
- Chapter 2: Effective Whole-School Teaching for English Learners
- Chapter 3 About the Author
- Chapter 3: Research on English Learner Instruction
- Chapter 4 About the Author
- Chapter 4: Whole-School Approaches to Academic Language Proficiency Among English Learners
- Chapter 5 About the Authors
- Chapter 5: Educating English Learners: An Integrated Perspective
- Chapter 6 About the Author
- Chapter 6: Effective Teaching for ELs and All Students: Vocabulary, Reading, and Writing Within All Subjects
- Chapter 7 About the Author
- Chapter 7: Teaching Science With English Language and Literacy
- Chapter 8 About the Author
- Chapter 8: Linking Literacy to Content in Preschool Math, Science, and Social Science
- Chapter 9 About the Author
- Chapter 9: Common Instructional Assessment for English Learners: A Whole-School Effort
- Chapter 10 About the Author
- Chapter 10: Response to Intervention for English Learners
- Chapter 11 About the Author
- Chapter 11: Leadership Matters for Learning English and Learning in English
- Chapter 12 About the Authors
- Chapter 12: Building Communities of Practice in Linguistically and Culturally Diverse School Districts
- Chapter 13 About the Authors
- Chapter 13: Implementing the Change
- Index
