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Making Language Visible in Social Studies
As the first book in the Making Disciplinary Language Visible series, this practical toolkit helps teachers promote disciplinary literacy development for Multilingual learners and their peers in the 5–12 social studies classroom. Using systemic functional linguistics (SFL) and the SFL-informed genre pedagogy, the Teaching and Learning Cycle for Disciplinary Genres, the book shows teachers how to teach content using language as a meaning-making resource. Besser and Westerlund provide clear guidance on understanding how language is used in the discipline and provide practical tools to empower teachers to teach language in the service of social studies disciplinary genres. Chapters feature authentic vignettes to illustrate problems of practice, annotated social studies texts, practical curriculum design tools, exercises for readers to develop knowledge about language, and sample scripts for practical application.
From Borsch to Burgers
This singular memoir from one of Ukraine's new literary lights tracks her journey from a little girl toiling in the potato fields of the Soviet Union to the shiny but sometimes foreign new world of America. Ruslana's From Borsch to Burgers elegantly and humorously captures her gleeful yet puzzling journey through new foods, customs, language, and love. Her message of cross-cultural discovery presents enlightening insights into understanding the nuances found in spanning two worlds. Her tale attempts to answer the questions asked by all people who have left their homeland to seek out a new life, "Who am I now?" and "Where do I fit in?"
Scaffolding for Multilingual Learners in Elementary and Secondary Schools
This insightful and timely volume addresses how scaffolding can be used to support multilingual learners to amplify their opportunities for learning. As a dynamic educational process, scaffolding facilitates responsive and adaptive teaching and learning; addresses students’ needs; increases student autonomy; and promotes adaptive, high-level learning without simplifying instruction. Section I covers the theoretical grounding and reconceptualizations of scaffolding. Section II offers concrete examples and case studies from varied classroom contexts. Section III provides a window into professional development to discuss the work of pre-service and in-service teachers, and how they develop th...
Equitable Instruction for English Learners in the Content Areas
In Equitable Instruction for English Learners in the Content Areas, ESL expert Valentina Gonzalez shows you how to meet the needs of English learners in K-8 classrooms. With an emphasis on comprehensible input, the clear and accessible guidance in this book allows teachers to maintain a high level of instruction and hold all students to high standards while allowing English learners important opportunities to engage with key content area language and excel at subject-specific material. Demonstrating how equity is an essential component to teaching multilingual learners, this book includes engaging practical strategies catered to different grade levels, and it is essential reading for every teacher who works with multilingual learners.
Supporting Multilingual Learners’ Academic Language Development
A practical and comprehensive resource, Supporting Multilingual Learners’ Academic Language Development: A Language-Based Approach to Content Instruction introduces an accessible language-based approach to teaching academic language to multilingual learners across the content areas. Luciana C. de Oliveira provides elementary school teachers with everything they need to know to successfully teach grade-level content to multilingual learners. Chapters are organized by subject, addressing the specific language demands of teaching English language arts, social studies, mathematics, and science. Each chapter features examples of implementation in grades K-5, practical strategies, and a wealth o...
Teaching and Researching ELLs’ Disciplinary Literacies
Written from a critical perspective, this volume provides teachers, teacher educators, and classroom researchers with a conceptual framework and practical methods for teaching and researching the disciplinary literacy development of English language learners (ELLs). Grounded in a nuanced critique of current social, economic, and political changes shaping public education, Gebhard offers a comprehensive framework for designing curriculum, instruction, and assessments that build on students’ linguistic and cultural resources and that are aligned with high-stakes state and national standards using the tools of systemic functional linguistics (SFL). By providing concrete examples of how teache...
The School I Deserve
Uncovers the key civil rights battle that immigrant children fought alongside the ACLU to ensure equal access to education within a xenophobic nation Journalist Jo Napolitano delves into the landmark case in which the School District of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was sued for refusing to admit older, non-English speaking refugees and sending them to a high-discipline alternative school. In a legal battle that mirrors that of the Little Rock Nine and Brown v. Board of Education, 6 brave refugee students fought alongside the ACLU and Education Law Center to demand equal access. The School I Deserve illuminates the lack of support immigrant and refugee children face in our public school system an...
Global Perspectives on Language Assessment
The sixth volume in the Global Research on Teaching and Learning English series offers up-to-date research on the rapidly changing field of language assessment. The book features original research with chapters reporting on a variety of international education settings from a range of diverse perspectives. Covering a broad range of key topics—including scoring processes, test development, and student and teacher perspectives—contributors offer a comprehensive overview of the landscape of language assessment and discuss the consequences and impact for learners, teachers, learning programs, and society. Focusing on the assessment of language proficiency, this volume provides an original compendium of cutting-edge research that will benefit TESOL and TEFL students, language assessment scholars, and language teachers.
The Creative Mathematics Teacher’s Book of Lists
Unexpected lists that propel your teaching into refreshingly new directions! From lesson planning and assessment strategies to ideas for changing the world, there is something for everybody at every level and age of mathematics – entertaining humor, deeply serious provocations to push you out of the box, and good, clean wholesome tips for creative experiments in classroom organization.
First Person Omniscient
The Philosophical Thriller, First Person Omniscient, pulls back the curtain shrouding reality with the insights of the first human to become omniscient. Jetson, a movie studio film development assistant, wakes to find himself able to know everything, ranging from what people are thinking, to the quantum makeup of an individual, to what will transpire in the future. Sorting through the surge of information flooding his consciousness, he discerns that there is going to be a deadly terrorist attack on the studio. Jetson is the only one who knows about the attack, and the only one who can save one hundred of Hollywood's greatest stars who have arrived to take part in the studio's centennial cele...
