Building Academic Language

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Many students, ranging from native English speakers to recentimmigrants, need help in understanding and using the language ofschool. Language is the lifeblood of learning in all content areas,and it plays a major role in academic achievement. BuildingAcademic Language explains the functions and features ofacademic language that every teacher (language arts, history, math,& science teachers, etc.) should know for supporting academicreading, writing, and discussion. The book includes research-basedinstructional and assessment activities that content teachers canuse to build students' abilities to understand and describe themany abstract concepts, higher-order thinking skills, and complexrelationships in a discipline. The book emphasizes an approach thatbuilds from students' existing ways of learning and communicating,scaffolding them to think and talk as content area experts thinkand talk about math, science, history, and language arts. Major topics and themes include: * What is academic language and how does it differ by contentarea? * How can language-building activities (discussions, smallgroups, etc.) support content understanding? * How can we build language abilities for content reading andwriting - and vice versa? * How can we build on students' diverse ways of understanding,learning, and communicating about the world? * How can we more effectively model and scaffold academiclanguage in our teaching and assessment?

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Jeff Zwiers

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