Fast-paced, practical, and innovative, this text for pre-service and in-service teachers features clear, easily accessible lessons and professional development activities to improve the delivery of academic language/literacy education across the content areas in junior/middle school and high school classrooms. Numerous hands-on tools and techniques demonstrate the effectiveness of content-area instruction for students in a wide variety of school settings, particularly English language learners, struggling readers, and other special populations of students.
Based on a strong professional development model the authors have been instrumental in designing, Academic Language/Literacy Strategies for Adolescents addresses:
A wealth of charts, graphs, and lesson plans give clear examples of academic language/literacy strategies in action. The appendices ? a key component of the practical applications developed in the text ? include a glossary, exemplary lessons that address key content areas, and a Grammar Handbook.
In this era of increased accountability, coupled with rapid demographic change and challenges to traditional curricula and pedagogical methods, educators will find this book to be a great resource.
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Fast-paced, practical, and innovative, this text for pre-service and in-service teachers features clear, easily accessible lessons and professional development activities to improve the delivery of academic language/literacy education across the content areas in junior/middle school and high school classrooms. Numerous hands-on tools and techniques demonstrate the effectiveness of content-area instruction for students in a wide variety of school settings, particularly English language learners, struggling readers, and other special populations of students.
Based on a strong professional development model the authors have been instrumental in designing, Academic Language/Literacy Strategies for Adolescents addresses:
A wealth of charts, graphs, and lesson plans give clear examples of academic language/literacy strategies in action. The appendices ? a key component of the practical applications developed in the text ? include a glossary, exemplary lessons that address key content areas, and a Grammar Handbook.
In this era of increased accountability, coupled with rapid demographic change and challenges to traditional curricula and pedagogical methods, educators will find this book to be a great resource.
Imprint | Routledge |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Release date | October 2009 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | 2010 |
Authors | Debra L. Cook Hirai, Irene Borrego, Emilio Garza, Carl Kloock |
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover |
Pages | 304 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-415-99965-6 |
Barcode | 9780415999656 |
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LSN | 0-415-99965-0 |