Teaching Reading to English Learners, Grades 6 - 12: A Framework for Improving Achievement in the Content Areas

Calderon, Margarita Espino; Sinclair-Slakk, Shawn M.

ISBN 10: 150637574X / ISBN 13: 9781506375748

Edité par Corwin, 2018

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• Titre: Teaching Reading to English Learners, Grades 6 - 12: A Framework for Improving Achievement in the Content Areas
• Éditeur: Corwin
• Date de parution: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 150637574X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781506375748
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• Édition: 2ème Édition
• État de l'article: New

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Retool your whole school for EL achievement 

For any student, middle and high school can be challenging. But for an English learner or striving reader—and the myriad words, phrases, syntax, texts, and concepts they must negotiate on a daily basis—the stakes seem a whole lot higher. Fortunately for content-area teachers, Margarita Calderón and Shawn Slakk make available in a single resource all the best instructional and professional development combinations for expediting comprehension across the secondary grades. 

Really a tool to assist all learners across all language needs, the second edition of Teaching Reading to English Learners, Grades 6-12, provides evidence-based strategies for helping content-area teachers and schools at large: 

• Teach academic language in all subject areas 
• Embed discourse practice through interaction strategies 
• Integrate basic and close reading comprehension skills into lessons 
• Teach drafting, revising, and editing for content-specific writing  
• Use cooperative learning to develop social emotional skills and enhance academic achievement 

Calderón and Slakk know firsthand that if we’re to counter the commonly held narrative of predictable failure among our ELs, it takes a whole school, and they have the evidence to prove it. Read Teaching Reading to English Learners, Grades 6-12, implement its strategies across all classrooms, and soon enough you, too, will maximize the comprehensions skills so critical to our ELs’ long-term success.   

À propos de l?auteur

Dr. Margarita Espino Calderón, born and raised in Juárez, is a Professor Emerita/Senior Research Scientist at Johns Hopkins University. Her research and development projects have been funded by the US Department of Education, National Institutes of Health, the US Department of Labor, The Carnegie Corporation of New York, and various State Offices of Education.

One of her empirical studies "The Bilingual Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (BCIRC)" is featured in the What Works Clearinghouse. The Carnegie Corporation of New York funded her five-year study to develop Expediting Comprehension for English Language Learners (ExC-ELL) to train math, science, social studies, language arts, and ESL teachers on integrating language, reading, and content in core content middle and high school classrooms. With a Title III National Professional Development grant, she implemented "A Whole-School Approach to Professional Development with ExC-ELL" in Loudoun County, VA. She replicated this approach in 29 schools in TX and NC. She served on the National Literacy Panel for Language Minority Children and Youth, the Carnegie Corporation of New York Panel on English Language Adolescent Literacy Panel, among other panels and national committees. She has over 100 publications on language, literacy, and professional development.