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A hands-on guide to meeting the unique challenges of educating English language learners!
Bilingual education programs give students who are learning languages and content the opportunity to progress academically while gaining proficiency in English as well as their first language. Grounded in current research, this hands-on guide helps educators navigate the linguistic, academic, and cultural considerations of bilingual classrooms.
Focusing on teachers' day-to-day experiences, the authors present classroom-ready strategies such as
- Guidance on balancing instruction in two languages, including age-specific needs and social and academic language development
- Tools for content-area teaching across the curriculum, including vocabulary development
- Recommendations on appropriate assessments
- Vignettes from schools and teachers illustrating solutions to challenges
Appropriate for a wide range of K-12 bilingual programs, Teaching in Two Languages is a comprehensive guide to language and content-area instruction for educators in any bilingual program or setting.
Key Featues:
- Organized around essential questions asked by practicing bilingual educators
- Includes a range of memorable vignettes based on actual schools and teachers across the U.S.
- Sound research base incorporates the latest work on bilingual education, content area instruction, culture and identity, and learning theory and practice
- Although the book is theoretically grounded, it focuses on the everyday instructional issues faced by bilingual teachers as they negotiate the linguistic, academic, and cultural considerations of their classrooms
- Unique dictionary of content-area vocabulary in Spanish provides an indispensible aid to teachers who struggle to "unlock" content in math, science, and social studies
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Author Sharon Adelman Reyes
Binding Paperback
Language English
Book Type Professional
Subject Dual Language
Copyright 2010
