Full Description
Make every student fluent in the language of learning.
Language has always been the center of English Language Arts, but with most states adopting CCSS, the focus on language and literacy across the content areas is required. Today it's more essential than ever that English language learners and proficient English learners have the supports to access and achieve the language of school.
The Common Core and ELD standards provide pathways to academic success through academic language. Using an integrated Curricular Framework, districts, schools and professional learning communities can:
Design and implement thematic units for learning
Draw from content and language standards to set targets for all students
Examine standards-centered materials for academic language
Collaborate in planning instruction and assessment within and across lessons
Consider linguistic and cultural resources of the students
Create differentiated content and language objectives
Delve deeply into instructional strategies involving academic language
Reflect on teaching and learning
With dynamic classrooms and units of learning, this book gives you a streamlined path for designing and implementing curriculum that leads to student mastery of academic language—the key to school success.
"These volumes are packed with practical ideas that will help all teachers attend to language within their classrooms from the discourse level to word/phrase levels. This is a road map for teaching Common Core content in language rich classrooms, and hence a resource every teacher needs within arm's reach! It's all here and clearly presented; this is pure gold for everyone who teaches students to speak, listen, read and write in school, with special attention to English language learners."
—Tim Boals, Executive Director of WIDA
Contents
Foreword by Douglas Fisher
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Editors
1. Academic Language: A Centerpiece for Academic Success in English Language Arts by Margo Gottlieb and Gisela Ernst-Slavit
Examples From the CCSS for English Language Arts of Related Academic Language
2. Grade 3: Taking a Closer Look at Our Changing Environment by Terrell A. Young and Nancy L. Hadaway
3. Grade 4: Making a Difference in the World: Civil Rights, Biographies, and the Southeast Region by Penny Silvers, Mary Shorey, Patricia Eliopoulos, and Heather Akiyoshi
4. Grade 5: No Water, No Life; No Blue, No Green by Mary Lou McCloskey and Linda New Levine
Glossary
Index
