Product Description
Because explicit language instruction serves ALL students
Here, at last, is every K-8 teacher’s playbook on the critical role academic language plays in content learning and student achievement. What exactly is so different? Margo Gottlieb and Mariana Castro distill the complexities of language learning into four key uses through which students can probe the interplay between language and content, and demonstrate their knowledge and understanding. It’s as straight-forward as that.
Best of all, Language Power is jam-packed with hands-on, replicable resources to help you seamlessly integrate academic language into your daily routines: targeted examples, activities, and templates. Along the way, you’ll learn how to
- Identify, plan, assess, and implement academic language instruction using the Discuss, Argue, Recount, and Explain conceptual tool
- Utilize language within and across domains and content areas
- Apply the inquiry cycle to the theme of academic language use
- Expand stakeholders to include students other families
No matter who your students are, no matter which discipline you teach, the research reads the same: school achievement depends upon effective communication. Read Language Power, implement its resources, and soon see for yourself what a powerful tool language is in realizing this goal.
Key Features:
Designed to guide educators in systematically focusing on students’ academic language development as part of their classroom routines.
- Helps simplify the complexity of language by focusing on four key uses (or communicative purposes): Discuss, Argue, Recount, and Explain.
- Provides a step-by-step methodology for identifying, organizing, and presenting key uses to students and their teachers within and across language domains and content areas.
- Includes an array of valuable resources such as charts, graphs, and checklists for use by a variety of stakeholders.
- QR codes linked to BrainPOP resources including videos and text resources for use as a jumpstart for thinking about and illustrating academic language use in classrooms
