Full Description
Transform how experienced multilinguals develop academic language and literacy skills
Experienced multilinguals—students who have been in language development programs for five or more years—face unique challenges that traditional English language development (ELD) approaches often fail to address. While newcomers receive immediate attention and support, experienced multilinguals frequently find themselves stuck in programs designed for social language development rather than the sophisticated academic language they need to thrive.
In this follow-up to their bestselling Long-Term Success for Experienced Multilinguals, authors Tan Huynh and Beth Skelton provide ELD and English Language Arts teachers with the Integrated Literacy Framework. This revolutionary approach systematically integrates all four language domains (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) with the four dimensions of academic language (vocabulary, sentence structures, organizational patterns, and context). Through content-based units and intentional academic literacy activities, teachers will learn how to design instruction that moves experienced multilinguals beyond survival language to the complex communication skills required for academic success.
Key features of this resource include:
The complete Integrated Literacy Framework with step-by-step guidance for unit and lesson planning that weaves content and language development together
Four comprehensive sample units progressing from foundational to sophisticated academic language, including an approach to create your own vocabulary set, sentence structures, and organizational patterns
Practical classroom tools including engagement models that cultivate independence, vignettes from Tan's classroom, "Try It Out" activities, reflection questions, templates, and visual anchor charts
Foundational literacy routines for systematic sentence-level and organizational instruction, including Structured Quick Write, Sentence Deconstruction and Reconstruction, Co-editing, and Co-revising
This essential resource empowers educators to create the optimal conditions experienced multilinguals need to unlock their potential as the mathematicians, scientists, historians, writers, and artists they know themselves to be. Your students will develop the academic language proficiency necessary to express complex ideas with confidence and sophistication.
Contents
PART 1: The Integrated Literacy Framework
Chapter 1: The Instructional Needs of Experienced Multilinguals
Who are experienced multilinguals?
What is the dilemma for experienced multilinguals?
What is the dilemma for ELD teachers?
What is the opportunity for experienced multilinguals and ELD teachers?
What is explicit ELD instruction?
Chapter 2: The Integrated Literacy Framework
Why should we have a framework for ELD classes
The sequence of the Integrated Literacy Framework
Planning with the Integrated Literacy Framework
What is the Input-Output Loop?
Why is the Integrated Literacy Framework specifically for experienced multilinguals?
Chapter 3: Unit Planning
Backward planning at the unit level
Why should we plan the unit with the Integrated Literacy Framework?
5 steps to backwards planning
Chapter 4: Lesson Planning for Academic Literacy
Step 1: Identify the content
Step 2: Write an exit ticket prompt
Step 3: Produce a model response
Step 4: Analyze the model response for content and the dimensions of language
Step 5: Write an integrated objective
Chapter 5: Designing Integrated Vocabulary Instruction
Essential principles of vocabulary instruction
What words should we teach in the unit?
Introducing the vocabulary words
Essential Engagement Models
Integrating reading, writing, oracy, with vocabulary development at the sentence level
Teaching reading through the vocabulary set
Explaining vocabulary within the text
Chapter 6: Sentence-Level Routines
Literacy Routines for Sentence-Level Instruction
Literacy Routines for Organization-Level Instruction
PART 2: The Units
UNIT 1: Forming Foundational Academic Language
Vocabulary-level instruction
Sentences-level instruction
Organizational-level instruction
UNIT 2: Cultivating Complex Academic Language
Vocabulary-level instruction
Sentences-level instruction
Organizational-level instruction
UNIT 3: Acquiring Advanced Academic Language
Vocabulary-level instruction
Sentences-level instruction
Organizational-level instruction
UNIT 4: Seeking Sophisticated Academic Language
Vocabulary-level instruction
Sentences-level instruction
Organizational-level instruction
Closure & Invitation
Building on the framework
Reflections on the framework
Call to action
With gratitude
Appendix A:
Appendix B: Model Response for a Multi-paragraph Essay on Japanese Internment Camps
Appendix C: Lesson-planning template for the Integrated Literacy Framework
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