Teaching emergent bilingual students : flexible approaches in an era of new standards

Book 2016

"Recent educational reform initiatives such as the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) largely fail to address the needs--or tap into the unique resources--of students who are developing literacy skills in both English and a home language. This book discusses ways to meet the challenges that current standards pose for teaching emergent bilingual students in grades K-8. Leading experts describe effective, standards-aligned instructional approaches...

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Common Core State Standards (Education)

Education Standards United States

Education, Bilingual United States

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ISBN:

9781462527199
9781462527182

Description:

xviii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Part I : Policy. Language education policies in the common core era : policy initiatives that affect emergent bilingual youth / Francesca López
Effective instruction for emergent bilingual children : accelerating English acquisition while developing biliteracy / Kathy Escamilla and Susan Hopewell
Response to intervention for emergent bilingual students in a common core era : guiding principles for distinguishing between language acquisition and learning disability / Amy M. Eppolito and Vanessa Santiago Schwarz
Part II : Pedagogy. English learners and instructional texts : evidence, current practice, and a call to action / Elfrieda H. Hiebert
Supporting linguistically diverse students to develop deep, flexible knowledge of academic words / Amy C. Crosson
Using strategy instruction to promote reading comprehension and content learning / Alison Boardman and Cristin Jensen Lasser
Dialogic reasoning : supporting emergent bilingual students' language and literacy development / Marcela Ossa Parra [and 6 others]
Writing arguments : the experience of two mainstream teachers working with multilingual students / María Estela Brisk [and 3 others]
Energizing reading : engagement in teaching and learning / Ana Taboada Barber and Peet Smith
Situating the English language arts common core standards in science : enhancing access to language for emergent bilingual students / Marco Bravo
Part III : Professional learning. Academic language and literacy in every subject (ALLIES) : a capacity-building approach to supporting teachers in grades 4-8 / Susan P. O'Hara, Robert Pritchard, and Jeff Zwiers
Supporting linguistically responsive teaching : e-learning communities for academic language learning in mathematics and science (eCALLMS) / Kara Mitchell Viesca [and 3 others]

LCCN:

2016027104

Control Number:

2746162

Other Authors:

Boardman, Alison, editor, author
Escamilla, Kathy, author
Hiebert, Elfrieda H., editor, author
Hopewell, Susan, author
López, Francesca A., 1974- author
Proctor, C. Patrick, editor

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