Help! my kids don't all speak English : how to set up a language workshop in your linguistically diverse classroom / Nancy Akhavan ; foreword by Elaine M. Garan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Akhavan, Nancy L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.

English language.

Limited English-proficient students--Education--United States.

Limited English-proficient students.

Education.

United States.

Physical Description:

xiv, 208 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, [2006]

Summary:

Today more nonnative speakers are entering classrooms than ever before. Some may be encountering English for the first time; some may understand written or spoken English but have difficulty communicating in it; and others may be well on their way to fluency but need guidance in specific language skills. To meet these students' needs while addressing the many, varied needs of those who already speak English as their primary language you'll have to think about your teaching differently. Help! My Kids Don't All Speak English can guide you.

Help! My Kids Don't All Speak English offers an exciting new take on English language instruction-the language workshop. Language workshop focuses on the specific language needs of every child, allowing you the flexibility to scaffold instruction by modeling specific uses of language, posing problems and ideas that expand kids' language skills, and teaching specific thinking strategies. Students will find the guidance and opportunity necessary for acquiring language, learn the structures of discussion and debate, and think through ideas and texts. Nancy Akhavan details how to make language workshop happen in your classroom, sharing frameworks and strategies that help children: share ideas, decisions, and understandings orally and in writing, think critically by analyzing, synthesizing, and comparing texts, acquire and apply the conventions of English, gain language skills through authentic literacy lessons. Warm, supportive, and complete with classroom-tested units of study, example workshop lessons, ready-to-use graphic organizers, and a rich booklist designed specifically for use with language workshop, Nancy Akhavan's Help! My Kids Don't All Speak English is going to make a difference to every member of your classroom.

Contents:

Part 1 Preparing for Language Instruction

Chapter 1 Teaching Language 3

Chapter 2 Traits of Language Classrooms 6

Part 2 Language Learning

Chapter 3 The Language Workshop 15

Chapter 4 Understanding Language Acquisition 25

Chapter 5 The Wonder of Words: Promoting Vocabulary Development 35

Chapter 6 The Nuts and Bolts of Language Workshop 53

Chapter 7 Conferring: Essential Teaching and Assessment 68

Part 3 Units of Study in Content and Strategy

Chapter 8 Putting It All Together: How to Develop Units of Study That Link Language, Reading, and Writing 81

Chapter 9 Content-Based Language Lessons 98

Chapter 10 Language Lessons Focusing on Strategy Instruction 127

Appendix A Graphic Organizers 159

Appendix B Book Lists for Units of Study 179.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-200) and index.

ISBN:

0325007985

OCLC:

61684114

Publisher Number:

9780325007984