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Differentiating Instruction and Assessment for English Language Learners: A Guide for K-12 Teachers

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...

Foundations for Teaching English Language Learners: Research, Theory, Policy, and Practice

by Wayne E. Wright

The only comprehensive text on English language learner education for students in elementary and secondary teacher education, reading/literacy, special education, TESOL, bilingual education, and educational leadership programs. <p><b><a href="http://wright.caslonpublishing.com">Includes an interact...

Teaching Adolescent English Language Learners: Essential Strategies for Middle and High School

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...

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Resources for in-service educators...

Teaching Spanish and English Literacy in the United States: A Practitioners' Handbook
Karen Beeman and Cheryl Urow
This practical handbook shows teachers how to teach Spanish and English literacy in dual language and heritage language programs in the United States. It highlights pedagogical and linguistic differences of literacy instruction in Spanish and English for students whose first language may be either Spanish or English or both.

Teaching for Transfer: A Guide to Effective Biliteracy Instruction
Jill Kerper Mora
This teacher-friendly guide invites teachers to review relevant theory and research in second language acquisition and biliteracy development, consider what we know about effective biliteracy programs and practices, and strategically teach for cross-linguistic transfer. Kerper Mora highlights the importance of metalinguistic awareness as she focuses teachers’ attention on universal and language-specific features that teachers can target to promote transfer. She also shows teachers how to look for evidence of cross-linguistic transfer in student work. Kerper Mora makes the complex topic of transfer in biliteracy development accessible and practicable to teachers working in bilingual and English-medium instructional contexts. It includes a companion website.

Speech and Language Pathologists’ Guide to English Language Learners
Jack Damico and Ryan Nelson
This user-friendly guide provides expert answers to speech and language pathologists’ questions about policies, programs, and practices for English language learners.

Resources for pre-service teachers...

Foundations of Multilingualism and Education: From Principles to Practice
Ester de Jong
This textbook surveys the research, policies, programs, and practices surrounding multilingualism and education in the United States and internationally. Pre-service teachers and prospective researchers are introduced to the critical issues in the field, and they develop tools to inform the decisions practitionerFor undergraduate and graduate students, in-service teachers, and educational researchers. Spring 2011.