Engaging Students in Academic Literacies: Genre-based Pedagogy for K-5 Classrooms

Brisk, MarÃa Estela

ISBN 10: 0415737044 / ISBN 13: 9780415737043

Published by Routledge, 2014

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Synopsis:

The Common Core State Standards require schools to include writing in a variety of genres across the disciplines. Engaging Students in Academic Literacies provides specific information to plan and carry out genre-based writing instruction in English for K-5 students within various content areas. Informed by systemic functional linguistics―a theory of language IN USE in particular ways for particular audiences and social purposes―it guides teachers in developing students’ ability to construct texts using structural and linguistic features of the written language. This approach to teaching writing and academic language is effective in addressing the persistent achievement gap between ELLs and "mainstream" students, especially in the context of current reforms in the U.S. Transforming systemic functional linguistics and genre theory into concrete classroom tools for designing, implementing, and reflecting on instruction and providing essential scaffolding for teachers to build their own knowledge of its essential elements applied to teaching, the text includes strategies for apprenticing students to writing in all genres, features of elementary students’ writing, and examples of practice.

About the Author:

María Estela Brisk is Professor, Boston College, USA.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Engaging Students in Academic Literacies: ...
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2014
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket