Synopses & Reviews
Teaching English Language Learners: A Differentiated Approach to Language Development, 1/e Doug Fisher and Carol Rothenberg
Are you looking for a methods book to facilitate literacy and academic development in your K-12 classroom? Building on a solid foundation in language acquisition and learning theory, this text will show you how to examine your own practice and design lessons that consider the individual needs of English language learners and accelerate their achievement.
This text is designed to help your students develop proficiency in both everyday and academic English while developing listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. It also serves as a great guide for promoting high-level, high-quality, and high-expectation instruction with respect to language, literacy development, and academic achievement for all of your students.
Features of this text:
- Constructed from a strong research base, each chapter highlights specific research topics to provide you with practical ideas in applying this research to your own practices.
- Accessing Prior Knowledge Activities allow you to engage your own background knowledge in visualizing, brainstorming, previewing, reflecting, and observing to help you get the most from each chapter.
- Spotlight on Instruction features visit classrooms of effective teachers of English language learners providing an authentic context as you learn.
- Application to Practice case studies build upon one another from chapter to chapter illustrating how to apply this growing wealth of strategies in your own classroom.
- Teacher Tools in the back of this book provide a collection of reproducibles for use in your classroom, including planning tools, writing assignments, and self reflection tools.
Related Books from Merrill Education:
- Fifty Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners, Second Edition, Adrienne L. Herrell and Michael L. Jordan,
Review
Co-author Doug Fisher received this note:
"Dr. Fisher, I have read your book twice- back to back! I have never read any book two times, but I found even more information on the second reading. It is so interesting and so jam packed with information. I am an ELL specialist and consultant. I will be teaching a class of teachers next week and have add so much information to my plans for the class after reading your book. I will definitely be promoting it next week. Thank you so much for providing so much information and insightful reasoning. I taught ELLs for over fifteen years. I used many of the approaches and strategies that you advocate in your book and they worked beautifully with my students. You and your fellow author, Carol, do such an excellent job in providing insight into why these strategies work for language learners. Thanks again."
-Linda Iza, ELL Specialist
Synopsis
Are you looking for a methods book to facilitate literacy and academic development in your K-12 classroom? Building on a solid foundation in language acquisition and learning theory, this book will show you how to examine your own practice and design lessons that consider the individual needs of English language learners and accelerate their achievement. This book is designed to help your students develop proficiency in both everyday and academic English while developing listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. It also serves as a great guide for promoting high-level, high-quality, and high-expectation instruction with respect to language, literacy development, and academic achievement for all of your students.
FEATURES:
Constructed from a strong research base, each chapter highlights specific research topics to provide you with practical ideas in applying this research to your own practices. Accessing Prior Knowledge Activities allow you to engage your own background knowledge in visualizing, brainstorming, previewing, reflecting, and observing to help you get the most from each chapter. Spotlight on Instruction features visit classrooms of effective teachers of English language learners providing an authentic context as you learn. Application to Practice case studies build upon one another from chapter to chapter illustrating how to apply this growing wealth of strategies in your own classroom. Teacher Tools in the back of this book provide a collection of reproducibles for use in your classroom, including planning tools, writing assignments, and self reflection tools. About the Author
Carol Rothenberg is a staff developer in the area of literacy and English language learners. Providing support and guidance to teachers across content areas and grade levels, she coaches them in planning, assessing, and reflecting on instruction. She has worked with elementary and secondary schools throughout the San Diego Unified School District, training teachers and administrators on effective programs and instruction for English language learners. An experienced classroom teacher, Carol has taught bilingual special education, Spanish, and English to migrant workers. She currently teaches classes for new teachers on effective instruction of English language learners.
Table of Contents
Teaching English Language Learners:
A Differentiated Approach To Language Development
Chapter 1: Where Do We Begin?
- Focus Questions
- Accessing Prior Knowledge: Learning In Another Language
- What Is The Need?
- Teacher Expectations
- The Zone Of Proximal Development
- Conditions Of Learning
- Effective Strategies For Teaching English Language Learners: ELD And SDAIE
- Sheltered Instruction Or Specially Designed Academic Instruction In English?
- ESL, ESOL Or ELD?
· Bilingual Education And Achievement In English
Chapter 2: Background Knowledge For Teaching English Language Learners
- Focus Questions
- Accessing Prior Knowledge: Acquiring A Second Language
- Four Principles Of Language Acquisition
- Communicative Competence
- Grammatical Competence
- Sociolinguistic Competence
- Discourse Competence
- Strategic Competence
- The Four Principles Of Language Acquisition Applied
- Principle 1: Comprehensible Input
- Principle 2: Contextualized Instruction
- Principle 3: Low Anxiety Environment
- Principle 4: Meaningful Engagement
- Additional Factors That Influence Language Learning
- Application To Practice
Chapter 3: Purposeful Instruction Planning: Begin With The End In Mind
- Focus Questions
- Accessing Prior Knowledge: Previewing Texts
- Planning Instruction That Matters
- Traditional Planning: A View From Carol’s Classroom
- The Role Of Standards
- Understanding By Design
- Language Objectives
- Social Objectives
- Universal Design
- Components Of Universal Design And Access In Education
- Daily Lesson Planning
- Framework For Teaching English Language Learners
- Application To Practice
Chapter 4: Using Assessments To Guide Instruction
- Focus Questions
- Accessing Prior Knowledge: IQ Test
- Testing And Assessment — Why?
- Student Oral Language Observation Matrix (SOLOM)
- Sample Assessments Of Reading And Writing
- Interactive Writing Charts
- Running Records
- KWL Charts And Response Logs
- Teacher Created Tests
- Using Writing Samples
- Implementing An Assessment System
- Good Ideas About Assessments
- Application To Practice
Chapter 5: Oral