Teaching emergent bilingual students : flexible approaches in an era of new standards / edited by C. Patrick Proctor, Alison Boardman, Elfrieda H. Hiebert.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Proctor, C. Patrick, editor.

Boardman, Alison, editor.

Hiebert, Elfrieda H., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Bilingual.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; London, [England] : The Guilford Press, 2016.

Summary:

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 and programs expressly developed to promote bilingual learners' academic vocabulary, comprehension, speaking, writing, and content learning. Innovative

Contents:

Cover; Half Title Page; Also Available; Title Page; Copyright; About the Editors; Contributors; Preface; Contents; Part I. Policy; 1. Language Education Policies in the Common Core Era: Policy Initiatives That Affect Emergent Bilingual Youth; 2. Effective Instruction for Emergent Bilingual Children: Accelerating English Acquisition While Developing Biliteracy; 3. Response to Intervention for Emergent Bilingual Students in a Common Core Era: Guiding Principles for Distinguishing between Language Acquisition and Learning Disability; Part II. Pedagogy

4. English Learners and Instructional Texts: Evidence, Current Practice, and a Call to Action5. Supporting Linguistically Diverse Students to Develop Deep, Flexible Knowledge of Academic Words; 6. Using Strategy Instruction to Promote Reading Comprehension and Content Learning; 7. Dialogic Reasoning: Supporting Emergent Bilingual Students' Language and Literacy Development; 8. Writing Arguments: The Experience of Two Mainstream Teachers Working with Multilingual Students; 9. Energizing Reading: Engagement in Teaching and Learning

10. Situating the English Language Arts Common Core Standards in Science: Enhancing Access to Language for Emergent Bilingual StudentsPart III. Professional Learning; 11. Academic Language and Literacy in Every Subject (ALLIES): A Capacity-Building Approach to Supporting Teachers in Grades 4-8; 12. Supporting Linguistically Responsive Teaching: e-Learning Communities for Academic Language Learning in Mathematics and Science (eCALLMS); Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4625-2723-X

OCLC:

956998147