Full Description
Watch multilingual students excel with high-engagement reading lessons
Students acquiring English tend to bust every stereotype. The truth is, these learners come to school with linguistic assets, not deficits. They will excel with lively, just-right challenge lessons, and they thrive with opportunities to collaborate with peers. In this authoritative resource, bestselling author Nancy Akhavan shows teachers how to support students at the small-group table in acquiring English as well as developing as readers—simultaneously. Ready-to-go tools include:
Essential background on the five stages of language acquisition
How-tos for differentiating instruction based on students' levels of language proficiency as well as their reading proficiency
Lesson sequences integrating oral language, phonics, spelling, vocabulary, word work, comprehension, and writing about reading
Routines that augment talk about texts so multilingual learners can verbalize their knowledge and articulate thinking
A companion website and multimodal scaffolds to support students across reading, writing, speaking, and listening
When we gather at the reading table, we have just twenty minutes—we need to make it count. Now we can.
Contents
Introduction: An Abundance Mindset for Language Learning
PART ONE: SUPPORTING MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS
Chapter 1: How Students Learn Languages
Chapter 2: Apprenticeship Experiences in Small Groups
Chapter 3: A Menu of Options for Powerful Routines
Chapter 4: Lesson Sequences
PART TWO: TEACHING IDEAS
Chapter 5: Oral Language Development
Chapter 6: Phonics & Spelling
Chapter 7: Vocabulary
Chapter 8: Word Work
Chapter 9: Comprehension
Chapter 10: Writing to Build Reading
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