Connecting content and academic language for English learners and struggling students, grades 2-6 / Ruth Swinney, Patricia Velasco ; foreword by Ofelia Garcia. [print]

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Swinney, Ruth [Author]

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text

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unmediated

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volume

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9781412988438
1412988438

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LB1050.455.C666 2011
LB1050.455.G216.C666 2011

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Summary: "This book focuses on increasing teachers' expertise in developing all students' academic language. Included are graphic organizers, sample lesson plans, and reproducibles"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: "For English Learners and other struggling students, understanding and using academic language is absolutely critical to literacy development and school achievement, but it takes careful planning to help these students develop mastery. Ruth Swinney and Patricia Velasco's teacher-friendly guide explains how to weave together content and language goals when planning lesson units, as well as offering strategies for moving students from social to academic language and creating a curriculum of talk in the classroom. In addition, Swinney and Velasco provide detailed sample unit plans in all content areas to demonstrate how these strategies can be employed while simultaneously meeting curriculum demands. Using specific structures of balanced literacy including read along, shared reading, and shared writing, these unit plans also include a self-assessment guide for teachers to use as they scaffold the content to increase comprehension and student achievement"-- Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status)	G. Allen Fleece Library Circulating Collection - First Floor	Non-fiction	LB1050.455.S95 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31923001693783

"This book focuses on increasing teachers' expertise in developing all students' academic language. Included are graphic organizers, sample lesson plans, and reproducibles"-- Provided by publisher.

"For English Learners and other struggling students, understanding and using academic language is absolutely critical to literacy development and school achievement, but it takes careful planning to help these students develop mastery. Ruth Swinney and Patricia Velasco's teacher-friendly guide explains how to weave together content and language goals when planning lesson units, as well as offering strategies for moving students from social to academic language and creating a curriculum of talk in the classroom. In addition, Swinney and Velasco provide detailed sample unit plans in all content areas to demonstrate how these strategies can be employed while simultaneously meeting curriculum demands. Using specific structures of balanced literacy including read along, shared reading, and shared writing, these unit plans also include a self-assessment guide for teachers to use as they scaffold the content to increase comprehension and student achievement"-- Provided by publisher.

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