Help! my kids don't all speak English : how to set up a language workshop in your linguistically diverse classroom / Nancy L. Akhavan ; foreword by Elaine M. Garan.
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http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0519/2005025912.html - Table of contents
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- 1 copy at The Center Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| The Center Library | 428.007 Akh 2006 | 143147 | Stacks | Available | - |
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- ISBN: 0325007985 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780325007984 (alk. paper)
- Physical Description: xiv, 208 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
- Publisher: Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, c 2006.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-200) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Part One. Preparing for language instruction. Teaching language -- Traits of language classrooms. Part Two. Language learning. The language workshop -- Understanding language acquisition -- The wonder of words: promoting vocabulary development -- The nuts and bolts of language workshop -- Conferring: essential teaching and assessment. Part Three. Units of study in content and strategy. Putting it all together: how to develop units of study that link language, reading, and writing -- Content-based language lessons -- Language lessons focusing on strategy instruction. |
| Summary, etc.: | Help! My Kids Don't All Speak English offers a new take on English language instruction: the language workshop. Language workshop focuses on the specific language needs of every child, allowing the flexibility to scaffold instruction by modeling specific uses of language, posing problems and ideas that expand kids' language skills, and teaching specific thinking strategies. Students will find the guidance and opportunity necessary for acquiring language, learn the structures of discussion and debate, and think through ideas and texts. Nancy Akhavan details how to make language workshop happen in the classroom, sharing frameworks and strategies that help children: share ideas, decisions, and understandings orally and in writing; think critically by analyzing, synthesizing, and comparing texts; acquire and apply the conventions of English; and gain language skills through authentic literacy lessons. --From publisher's description. |
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