This hands-on guide shows elementary school teachers how to create multilingual classroom communities that support every learner's success in reading, writing, and general literacy development. The author provides a practical overview of key ideas and techniques and describes specific literacy activities that lead to vocabulary and oral English proficiency. Instructional chapters will help teachers create a language-rich classroom environment, scaffold reading and writing tasks to match students needs, and use students language backgrounds as a bridge to literacy learning in English. As with all titles in The Practitioner s Bookshelf Series, this resource includes many user-friendly features such as bulleted summaries and checklists as well as photographs of linguistically diverse classrooms modelling the types of instructional interactions described in the book.
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Publisher
Teachers' College Press
ISBN-13
9780807753361
eBay Product ID (ePID)
178017135
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Author
Lori Helman
Publication Name
Literacy Instruction in Multilingual Classrooms: Engaging English Langauge Learners in Elementary School