Teaching English Language Learners: A Differentiated Approach - Softcover

Rothenberg, Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131704397 ISBN 13: 9780131704398

Publisher: Pearson, 2006

Synopsis

Are you looking for a methods book to facilitate literacy and academic development in your K-12 classroom? Building on a solid foundation in language acquisition and learning theory, this book will show you how to examine your own practice and design lessons that consider the individual needs of English language learners and accelerate their achievement. This book is designed to help your students develop proficiency in both everyday and academic English while developing listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. It also serves as a great guide for promoting high-level, high-quality, and high-expectation instruction with respect to language, literacy development, and academic achievement for all of your students.

 

FEATURES:

Constructed from a strong research base, each chapter highlights specific research topics to provide you with practical ideas in applying this research to your own practices.

Accessing Prior Knowledge Activities allow you to engage your own background knowledge in visualizing, brainstorming, previewing, reflecting, and observing to help you get the most from each chapter.

Spotlight on Instruction features visit classrooms of effective teachers of English language learners providing an authentic context as you learn.

Application to Practice case studies build upon one another from chapter to chapter illustrating how to apply this growing wealth of strategies in your own classroom.

Teacher Tools in the back of this book provide a collection of reproducibles for use in your classroom,  including planning tools, writing assignments, and self reflection tools.

About this title

About the Author

Carol Rothenberg is a staff developer in the area of literacy and English language learners. Providing support and guidance to teachers across content areas and grade levels, she coaches them in planning, assessing, and reflecting on instruction. She has worked with elementary and secondary schools throughout the San Diego Unified School District, training teachers and administrators on effective programs and instruction for English language learners. An experienced classroom teacher, Carol has taught bilingual special education, Spanish, and English to migrant workers. She currently teaches classes for new teachers on effective instruction of English language learners.

From the Back Cover

Teaching English Language Learners: A Differentiated Approach to Language Development, 1/e Doug Fisher and Carol Rothenberg

 

Are you looking for a methods book to facilitate literacy and academic development in your K-12 classroom? Building on a solid foundation in language acquisition and learning theory, this text will show you how to examine your own practice and design lessons that consider the individual needs of English language learners and accelerate their achievement.

 

This text is designed to help your students develop proficiency in both everyday and academic English while developing listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. It also serves as a great guide for promoting high-level, high-quality, and high-expectation instruction with respect to language, literacy development, and academic achievement for all of your students.

 

Features of this text:

• Constructed from a strong research base, each chapter highlights specific research topics to provide you with practical ideas in applying this research to your own practices.
• Accessing Prior Knowledge Activities allow you to engage your own background knowledge in visualizing, brainstorming, previewing, reflecting, and observing to help you get the most from each chapter.
• Spotlight on Instruction features visit classrooms of effective teachers of English language learners providing an authentic context as you learn.
• Application to Practice case studies build upon one another from chapter to chapter illustrating how to apply this growing wealth of strategies in your own classroom.
• Teacher Tools in the back of this book provide a collection of reproducibles for use in your classroom,  including planning tools, writing assignments, and self reflection tools.

 

Related Books from Merrill Education:

• Fifty Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners, Second Edition, Adrienne L. Herrell and Michael L. Jordan, ISBN: 0-13-098462-0
• 102 Content Strategies for English Language Learners: Teaching for Academic Success in Grades 3-12, Jodi Reiss, ISBN: 0-13-221819-4

 

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0131704397
• ISBN 13: 9780131704398
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312