Caslon Publishing and Consulting for Language Educators

by Shelley Fairbairn, Stephaney Jones-Vo

This comprehensive guide shows general education and ESL teachers how to differentiate instruction and assessment for the English language learners in their classes. The book provides concrete strategies that teachers can use in any content-area classroom to engage every ELL, from beginning to adva...

by Nancy Cloud, Judah Lakin, Erin Leininger, Laura Maxwell

Are your adolescent English language learners struggling to read, write, and learn across subject areas? Are they making it to graduation? This practical guide is grounded in the latest research on adolescent literacy development. It features effective strategies that general education teachers...

by Margo Gottlieb, Diep Nguyen

Administrators and teachers need defensible evidence of English language learners’ growth and achievement to drive their decisionmaking! This groundbreaking book provides a field-tested approach to accountability for ELLs. Gottlieb and Nguyen propose the BASIC model, an acronym for Balanced Ass...

by Else Hamayan, Barbara Marler, Cristina Sanchez Lopez, Jack Damico

Do you worry about distinguishing between learning disabilities and language difficulties among ELLs who are having academic difficulties? Historically in the United States, there has been a tendency to refer English language learners (ELLs) inappropriately to special education. This has led to ...

by Else Hamayan, Rebecca Freeman

Accountability for English language learners (ELLs) is a critical issue for schools today. The number of identified ELLs in public schools (K-12) grew 95% over the last decade, with more than 5 million school age ELLS identified. Administrators are demanding information about how they can ensure tha...

by Brian Street

Brian Street , a pioneering figure in the New Literacy Studies (NLS), challenges himself and his international colleagues to apply principles entailed in viewing literacy as a social practice to diverse educational contexts. This edited volume includes sixteen case studies of innovative projects and...

by Rebecca Freeman

Explains why and demonstrates how schools that serve bilingual communities can promote English language development, academic achievement, AND expertise in other languages. After a solid review of the fields of bilingual education, English as a second language (ESL), world/foreign language education...