Teaching Content to English Language Learners - Softcover

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The book offers: practical strategies for building on common classroom techniques and activities to increase teaching effectiveness for language-learning students techniques to recognize cultural differences, develop alternative assessments and adapt written assignments and oral language for ELLs abundant models, graphics and authentic examples that show how to help students build content-area fluency as well as general language skills

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Teaching Content to English Language Learners, by Jodi Reiss, shows content-area teachers how to transform second-language learning theories into useful tools for ensuring the success of their ELL students. The book's three parts present easy-to-incorporate techniques to make content more accessible, strengthen vocabulary, and increase student participation.

The book offers:

• practical strategies for building on common classroom techniques and activities to increase teaching effectiveness for language-learning students
• techniques to recognize cultural differences, develop alternative assessments, and adapt written assignments and oral language for ELLs
• abundant models, graphics, and authentic examples that show how to help students build content-area fluency as well as general language skills