Literacy Instruction in Multilingual Classrooms: Engaging English Language Learners in Elementary School (Language and Literacy Series) - Softcover

Helman, Lori

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080775336X ISBN 13: 9780807753361

Publisher: Teachers College Press, 2012

Synopsis

This hands-on guide shows elementary school teachers how to create multilingual classroom communities that support every learner’s success in reading, writing, and general literacy development. The author provides a practical overview of key ideas and techniques and describes specific literacy activities that lead to vocabulary and oral English proficiency. Instructional chapters will help teachers build a language-rich classroom environment, scaffold reading and writing tasks to match students’ needs, and use students’ language backgrounds as a bridge to literacy learning in English. As with all titles in The Practitioner’s Bookshelf Series, this resource includes many user-friendly features such as bulleted summaries and checklists as well as photographs of linguistically diverse classrooms modeling the types of instructional interactions described in the book.

Encouraging collaboration and a deeper understanding of best practices for ELL instruction, this book covers:

• How to build on the diverse linguistic resources that students bring to school.
• The connections between oral language and literacy development.
• Developing second language learners’ reading and writing skills.
• Assessing language and literacy learning.
• Planning literacy curriculum for classrooms with diverse language learners.

Collaborating with other professionals to coordinate effective instruction

About this title

Book Description

“This new book can serve as a core text of a teacher preparation course, but I believe it will be most welcomed and most effectively used again and again as a reference by current classroom teachers.”
—From the Foreword by
Alison L. Bailey
, University of California, Los Angeles

From the Author

Lori Helman, Ph.D., is associate professor at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and co-director of the Minnesota Center for Reading Research.

Edition details

• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 080775336X
• ISBN 13: 9780807753361
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 144