Big ideas for expanding minds
Subtitle: teaching English language learners across the curriculum
By: Jim Cummins, Margaret Early
Contributors: Early, Margaret
Publisher: Pearson Canada Inc.
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Don Mills, Ontario
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781770589483
Subjects: Foreign speakers; Study and teaching as a second language (Secondary); Correlation with content subjects; English language; Study and teaching; Engelskundervisning; Language arts; Study and teaching as a second language (Elementary); Engelska språket
Description: This new professional book by Jim Cummins and Margaret Early outlines the knowledge base that exists regarding topics such as the nature of academic language, how it is acquired by ELLs, the reasons that some (but by no means all) groups of ELLs tend to experience academic difficulties, and the instructional responses that research suggests are required to address these difficulties Provides concrete strategies for putting this knowledge base into practice and discusses the language demands of Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies and suggest instructional strategies for teaching and assessing content and language as well as reading and writing Provides concrete strategies for putting this knowledge base into practice and discusses the language demands of Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies and suggest instructional strategies for teaching and assessing content and language as well as reading and writing Includes a number of teaching vignettes, which provide concrete, practical examples of teachers' classroom work with ELLs Highlights how students' academic progress can be enhanced if all teachers in the school are "on the same page" with respect to their understanding of academic-language teaching and ways of promoting overall academic progress among ELLs -- amazon.ca.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-158) and index.
Table of contents: title: The big picture; title: Understanding patterns of achievement among English language learners; title: What are the language demands of different content areas?; title: The language demands of language arts; title: The language demands of mathematics; title: The language demands of science; title: The language demands of social studies; title: Capacity building within schools: how can we create powerful communities of learning?