Full Description
This teacher-friendly guide is packed with motivating lessons designed to improve the content learning and literacy skills of English language learners (ELLs) in K-8. Offering research-supported strategies that teachers can implement immediately, the book explains how to use content-area texts to support ELLs' growth in five crucial areas: comprehension, pronunciation, fluency, vocabulary, and grammar.
This hands-on volume is: *Unique: Demonstrates how to build ELLs' literacy skills and content knowledge simultaneously. *Effective: Research-supported strategies align with both TESOL and Common Core Standards. *Practical: More than two dozen worksheets for classroom use are presented in a large, easy-to-reproduce format.
Contents
Introduction
· Strategy Lesson 1: Clues for Comprehension
· Strategy Lesson 2: Talking about Sounds and Words
· Strategy Lesson 3: Sounding Out Words for Reading
· Strategy Lesson 4: Choral Reading
· Strategy Lesson 5: Talking about Visuals
· Strategy Lesson 6: Role Play with Realia
· Strategy Lesson 7: My Reading and Speaking Log
· Strategy Lesson 8: Writing for Different Purposes
· Strategy Lesson 9: Total Physical Response with Pictures
· Strategy Lesson 10: Expanding Word Knowledge
· Strategy Lesson 11: My Read-Aloud Listening/Discussion Guide
· Strategy Lesson 12: Word Maps
· Strategy Lesson 13: Scaffolding with Text-Supported Information
· Strategy Lesson 14: Text-Supported Comprehension Guide
· Strategy Lesson 15: Visualizing Steps in a Process
· Strategy Lesson 16: Text-Supported Conversations
· Strategy Lesson 17: Knowing How to Comprehend a Text
· Strategy Lesson 18: Talking about Text: The Peer Tutoring Guide
· Strategy Lesson 19: Reading Comprehension Strategy Guide
· Strategy Lesson 20: Read, Record, Report
· Strategy Lesson 21: Making Connections
· Strategy Lesson 22: My Conversation Log
· Strategy Lesson 23: Character Analysis
· Strategy Lesson 24: Interview/Conversation with a Character
· Strategy Lesson 25: Composing with Computers
Appendix
· Teacher Resource A: Charting Intervention Information
· Teacher Resource B: Suggested Books Listed by Strategy Lesson