Content-Area Conversations: How to Plan Discussion-Based Lessons for Diverse Language Learners

Rothenberg, Carol, Frey, Nancy, Fisher, Douglas

ISBN 10: 1416607374 / ISBN 13: 9781416607373

Edité par ASCD, 2008

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• Titre: Content-Area Conversations: How to Plan Discussion-Based Lessons for Diverse Language Learners
• Éditeur: ASCD
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1416607374
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781416607373
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: Very Good

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Synopsis

Teachers across the country are seeking ways to make their multicultural classrooms come alive with student talk about content. Content-Area Conversations: How to Plan Discussion-Based Lessons for Diverse Language Learners is a practical, hands-on guide to creating and managing environments that spur sophisticated levels of student communication, both oral and written. Paying special attention to the needs of English language learners, the authors:

• Detail research-based steps for designing lessons that spark student talk.
• Share real-life classroom scenarios and dialogues that bring theory to life.
• Describe easy-to-use assessments for all grade levels.
• Provide rubrics, worksheets, sentence frames, and other imaginative tools that encourage academic communication.
• Offer guiding questions to help teachers plan instruction.

Teachers at any grade level, in any content area, will find a wide variety of strategies in this book to help students simultaneously learn English and learn in English. Drawing both on decades of research data and on the authors' real-life experiences as teachers of English language learners, this book is replete with ideas for fostering real academic discourse in your classroom.