Connecting Content and Academic Language for English Learners and Struggling Students, Grades 2-6.

Create unit plans that will empower your EL students Award-winning teacher Ruth Swinney and Harvard graduate Patricia Velasco focus on the careful planning needed to develop the academic language of all students. For English learners especially, it is critically important to integrate language devel...

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Main Author: Swinney, Ruth
Other Authors: Velasco, Patricia
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2011.
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Summary:Create unit plans that will empower your EL students Award-winning teacher Ruth Swinney and Harvard graduate Patricia Velasco focus on the careful planning needed to develop the academic language of all students. For English learners especially, it is critically important to integrate language development with content. What makes this book unlike any other is the detailed guidance it provides in: Encouraging verbal expression in the classroom Planning units that link language with content Using shared reading and writing, read alouds, and conversation.
Physical Description:1 online resource (201 pages)
ISBN:9781412988438
1412988438
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.