Full Description
Retool your whole school for EL achievement
For any student, middle and high school can be challenging. But for an English learner or striving reader—and the myriad words, phrases, syntax, texts, and concepts they must negotiate on a daily basis—the stakes seem a whole lot higher. Fortunately for content-area teachers, Margarita Calderón and Shawn Slakk make available in a single resource all the best instructional and professional development combinations for expediting comprehension across the secondary grades.
Really a tool to assist all learners across all language needs, the second edition of Teaching Reading to English Learners, Grades 6-12, provides evidence-based strategies for helping content-area teachers and schools at large:
Teach academic language in all subject areas
Embed discourse practice through interaction strategies
Integrate basic and close reading comprehension skills into lessons
Teach drafting, revising, and editing for content-specific writing
Use cooperative learning to develop social emotional skills and enhance academic achievement
Calderón and Slakk know firsthand that if we're to counter the commonly held narrative of predictable failure among our ELs, it takes a whole school, and they have the evidence to prove it. Read Teaching Reading to English Learners, Grades 6-12, implement its strategies across all classrooms, and soon enough you, too, will maximize the comprehensions skills so critical to our ELs' long-term success.
Contents
preface
Acknowledgements
About the Authors
Chapter 1: Introduction: The ExC-ELL Model for Content Knowledge, Literacy, and Academic Language Integration
Chapter 2: Planning Lessons Using a Research-Based Design
Chapter 3: Vocabulary Development: Selecting for High-Impact Usage and Comprehension
Chapter 4: Bridging Vocabulary and Reading
Chapter 5: Content Reading
Chapter 6: After Initial Reading
Chapter 7: Writing Increases and Consolidates Vocabulary, Reading, and Content Learning
Chapter 8: Diving Deeper Into Writing
Chapter 9: Setting the Context for Success
Chapter 10: Implementing ExC-ELL: A Principal's Perspective
References
Additional Resources
Index
Chapter 10: Implementing Exc-ell TM: A Principal's Perspective - Tarcia Gilliam-Parrish
