Increasing language skills of students from low-income backgrounds
Subtitle: practical strategies for professionals
By: Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin.
Publisher: Plural Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: San Diego
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781597560894
Subjects: Children with social disabilities -- Education -- United States; English language -- Study and teaching -- United States; Academic achievement -- United States; Poor -- United States; Language Development Disorders -- therapy; Child; Cultural Deprivation; Poverty
Table of contents: title: Introduction to poverty: variables impacting students' performance; title: Characteristics of the language skills and behavior of children from low-SES backgrounds; title: Considerations in assessment of the language skills of low-SES students; title: Practical strategies for increasing the oral language skills of low-SES students; title: Practical strategies for increasing the literacy skills of low-SES students; title: Structuring the school environment for optimal performance of low-SES students; title: Practical strategies for enhancing learning and increasing executive functioning skills; title: Poverty and special populations; title: Working with families of low-SES students; title: Recap and a final word of encouragement.