KEY BENEFIT: Gives K-12 classroom teachers practical, ready-to-use strategies for integrating English language development into the content curriculum—and achieving content text comprehension for all students.
KEY TOPICS: Language acquisition and language learning, integrating language teaching and learning, connecting to students’ homes and families, organizing the classroom to promote language learning, developing oral language, building academic vocabulary, developing literacy with English learners, planning integrated lessons, using assessment tools, developing content-based thematic units.
MARKET: Pre-service and in-service K-12 classroom teachers.
The ideal resource for helping K-12 classroom teachers integrate content learning and English language learning into their classroom lessons, Teaching English Language and Content in Mainstream Classes presents practical, ready-to-use, research-based principles and strategies in a friendly writing style that clarifies concepts, defines key terms, and offers classroom teachers what they need to accelerate their students’ academic achievement. With it’s emphasis on techniques for developing reading, writing, and speaking skills in the content areas and it’s presentation of illustrative teaching vignettes to make the ideas clear, the new edition of this widely popular guide stands out from others on the market as a “must have” resource for teachers in today’s diverse classrooms.
Linda New Levine