Full Description
This research-based, highly practical volume presents ways teachers and schools can accelerate literacy achievement with bilingual K-6 students in both English and their home languages. Georgia Earnest García shares innovative instructional strategies for students with different language backgrounds in multiple settings--bilingual/ESL classrooms, dual-language classrooms, or all-English classrooms. She explains key concepts, such as sheltered instruction and translanguaging, and discusses how the science of reading should be adapted for bilingual students. The book offers concrete ideas for conducting unbiased assessments and building core domains of L1 and L2 literacy, including oral language, reading, writing, and academic language and vocabulary. Utility is enhanced by guiding questions, helpful vignettes, and reproducible and downloadable forms.
Contents
1. Introduction to Teaching Emergent Bilingual and Dual-Language Students
2. Theories and Theoretical Insights Relevant to Bilingual Students and Bilingual Education
3. Second-Language (L2) Teaching Approaches to Advance Bilingual Students' Learning
4. Instructional Activities to Promote Bilingual Students' Oral Language and Literacy Performance
5. The Selection and Use of Texts with Bilingual Students
6. L1 Literacy Instruction and Early Reading Instruction in Spanish and Other Languages
7. Bilingual Students' Beginning Reading Instruction in English
8. Reading Comprehension Instruction for Bilingual Students
9. Bilingual Students' Writing Instruction
10. Increasing Bilingual Students' Vocabulary and Academic Language Knowledge and Use
11. Disciplinary Literacy Instruction for Bilingual Students
12. The Language and Literacy Assessment of Bilingual Students
Conclusion: Pulling It All Together
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