Academic Success for English Language Learners: Strategies for K-12 Mainstream Teachers » (1st Edition)

Academic Success for English Language Learners: Strategies for K-12 Mainstream Teachers, edited by Patricia Richard-Amato and Marguerite Ann Snow, is dedicated to helping teachers meet the sociocultural, cognitive, and academic language needs of today's English Language Learners (ELLs). Designed for mainstream teachers, this anthology demonstrates how students can leverage their backgorund knowledge and skills to function successfully in content-area classes.

Balancing conceptual foundations with practical strategies, the book's four-part format includes chapters written by some of the field's most respected researchers and teachers. It offers a solid reeprtoire of techniques for creating a positibve instructional environment.

• Part I: Theoretical Considerations — Pesents a variety of ideas to stimulate thinking and help teachers develop their own theories of practice.
• Part II: Sociocultural Issues and Implications — Focus on sociocultural concerns and their implications in the classroom.
• Part III: The Classroom: Instruction and Assessment Practices — Presents a wide range of pedagogical and classroom management strategies.
• Part IV: Readings In Specific Content Area — Relates many of the preceding strategies and issues to specific content areas across grade levels, including math, literature, social studies, science, physical education, music, and art.

New! Also by Patricia A. Richard-Amato:

Making It Happen, Fourth Edition: From Interactive to Participatory Language Teaching — Evolving Theory and Practice

Part I THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS

Chapter 1 Who Are Our Students?

Aída Walqui

Chapter 2 Developments in Second Language Acquisition Research and Theory: From Structuralism to Social Participation

Bridget Fitzgerald Gersten and Sarah Hudelson

Chapter 3 What Teachers Need to Know about Language

Lily Wong Fillmore and Catherine E. Snow

Chapter 4 Language Proficiency, Bilingualism, and Academic Achievement

Jim Cummins

Chapter 5 The Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach

(CALLA): An Update

Anna Uhl Chamot

Chapter 6 Interaction Between Learning and Development

Lev Vygotsky

Part II SOCIOCULTURAL ISSUES AND IMPLICATIONS

Chapter 7 The Phenomenon of Uprooting

Cristina Igoa

Chapter 8 We Speak Many Tongues: Language Diversity and Multicultural Education

Sonila Nieto

Chapter 9 Language, Culture, Diversity, and the Reading/Writing Process

John E. Readence, Thomas W. Bean, and R. Scott Baldwin

Chapter 10 Cooperative Learning for Second Language Learners: Models, Applications, and Challenges

Mary McGroarty and Margarita Calderón

Part III THE CLASSROOM: INSTRUCTION AND ASSESSMENT

Chapter 11 Instructional Strategies for K-12 Mainstream Teachers

Patricia A. Richard-Amato and Marguerite Ann Snow

Chapter 12 Curriculum Adaptations

Jana Echevarria and Anne Graves

Chapter 13 Lesson Designs for Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development

Reade Dornan, Lois Matz Rosen, and Marilyn Wilson

Chapter 14 Writing in a Second Language Across the Curriculum

Pauline Gibbons

Chapter 15 Assessment of Students

Donna E. Alvermann and Stephen F. Phelps

Chapter 16 Possibilities and Problems of a Standards-Based Approach: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Beverly Falk

Chapter 17 Maximizing the Language and Learning Link in Computer Learning Environments

Catherine McLoughlin and Ron Oliver

Part IV READINGS IN SPECIFIC CONTENT AREAS

Chapter 18 Mathematics Education for Second Language Students in the Mainstream Classroom

Barbra Hawkins

Chapter 19 Teaching Literature to English Language Learners

Linda Sasser

Chapter 20 Reading and ‘Riting and … Social Studies: Integrated Language and Content Instruction

Deborah J. Short

Chapter 21 Integrating Language and Science Learning

Angela L. Carrasquillo and Vivian Rodriguez

Chapter 22 Enhancing Content Literacy in Physical Education

Cathy Buell and Andrea Whittaker

Chapter 23 Rationales for Teaching World Musics

C. Victor Fung

Chapter 24 The Culturally Competent Art Educator

Lucy Andrus

References

Index