Full Description
By now it's a given: if we're to help our ELLs and SELs access the rigorous demands of today's content standards, we must cultivate the "code" that drives school success: academic language. Look no further for assistance than this much-anticipated series from Ivannia Soto, in which she invites field authorities Jeff Zwiers, David and Yvonne Freeman, Margarita Calderon, and Noma LeMoine to share every teacher's need-to-know strategies on the four essential components of academic language.
The subject of this volume is culture. Here, Noma LeMoine makes clear once and for all how culturally and linguistically responsive pedagogy validates, facilitates, liberates, and empowers ethnically diverse students. With this volume as your roadmap, you'll learn how to:
Implement instructional strategies designed to meet the linguistic and cultural needs of ELLs and SELs
Use language variation as an asset in the classroom
Recognize and honor prior knowledge, home languages, and cultures
The culture and language every student brings to the classroom have vast implications for how to best structure the learning environment. This guidebook will help you get started as early as tomorrow. Better yet, read all four volumes in the series as an all-in-one instructional plan for closing the achievement gap.
Contents
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. Introduction to the Book Series
2. Abbreviated Literature Review: The Case for Culturally Relevant and Linguistically Responsive Pedagogy
3. Practical Application: Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Instructional Strategies That Advance Learning in EL and SEL Populations
4. Fostering Literacy With CLRP
5. Assessing for Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Indicators
6. Conclusions, Challenges, and Connections
Epilogue: The Vision
References
Index
