Table Of Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• 1. The Joys and Challenges of Teaching English as a Second Language
• The Joys of Teaching ESL
• The Challenges of Teaching ESL
• Travel the World With or Without Leaving Your Classroom
• It's More Than a Job, It's a Mission
• 2. Your Students
• ESL, ELL, LEP, and Other Acronyms
• Placement in Bilingual and ESL Programs
• SEP Students (Someone Else's Problem)
• Inclusion and Support in Regular Classrooms
• 3. Your Toolbox
• The Textbook
• Other Books
• Realia: Pictures, Maps, Charts, Toys, and More
• Audio Tapes and CDs
• Gadgets Galore
• Paying for Your Tools
• Getting Help from Volunteers
• Getting Advice and Help from School Personnel
• 4. How Much? How Soon? How Fast?
• BICS and CALP
• Pie-in-the-Sky Goals
• Is One Year Enough?
• When Should Students Exit to Regular Classes?
• Steep Hills and Frustrating Plateaus
• Motivation Inside and Outside of Class
• Sidebar: Working with Younger Students
• 5. Using the Learners' Native Language in the Classroom
• Don't Force Them to Go Mute
• What Works Best in the Students' Native Language
• Consider the Language and Culture of the Community
• Use Time Limits
• Sidebar: Working with Younger Students
• 6. Natural and Unnatural Approaches to Learning English
• The Natural Approach: Learning English by Hearing It and Speaking It
• Applying First Language Skills to Second Language Learning
• Balancing Experiential and Analytic Approaches
• Using Total Physical Response (TPR)
• Language in the Foreground and the Background
• Winning Over the Skeptics in Your School
• Sidebar: Working with Younger Students
• 7. Building Vocabulary: They'll Need Lots
• Enjoying the Path to a Large Vocabulary
• Learning from the Movies
• Teaching Vocabulary with Picture Dictionaries
• Using Vocabulary from the Native Language Using Vocabulary From the Native Language Using Vocabulary from the Native Language
• Building Vocabulary with Word Blocks
• Idioms and Other Confusing Expressions
• Look It Up!: Learning English with Dictionaries
• Electronic Dictionaries
• Those Boring Vocabulary Lists
• Layered Vocabulary Learning
• Sidebar: Working with Younger Students Sidebar: Working with Younger Students
• 8. Grammar: The Skeletal System of the Language
• Me Very Grammar
• When to Start Grammar Lessons
• English Grammar Isn't as Tough as We Think
• Freebies: When English Grammar Matches the Learner's Native Language
• The Garden Path to English Grammar
• Pronoun Cases
• Implicit and Explicit Grammar Instruction
• Pattern Practice Makes Perfect: Well, not Really, But It Works
• Grammar in Action: Questions, Answers, Jokes, and Conversation
• Tag, You're It: Converting Statements to Tag Questions
• Sidebar: Working with Younger Students
• 9. Listening Skills: The Gateway to Language
• Learning with a Tape Recorder or CD Player
• Learning with Software: The Rosetta Stone, Instant Immersion, and Other Programs
• The Great ESL Film Festival
• Dictations
• Encouraging Listening as a Stand-Alone Skill
• Teaching with Minimal Pairs: Bit, Bet, Bait, Beet, Bite
• Sidebar: Working with Younger Students
• Chapter 10. Now Say It: Teaching Spoken English
• The Direct Method
• Controlled Conversation
• Role Playing
• Student-to-Student Teaching
• Recitals
• Using Media and the Language Lab
• Teaching Pronunciation (Speech Therapists Can Help!)
• Using the International Phonetic Alphabet
• Error Correction: When and How Often
• Let Your Students Correct You Too
• Speaking Practice Outside of Class
• Sidebar: Working with Younger Students
• 11. Teaching Reading
• When Students Are Struggling Readers in Their Native Language
• Quick-Start Phonics for English Learners
• The Constant Consonants
• Those Tricky Vowels
• Decoding Skills and Background Knowledge
• Graphic Organizers
• Sidebar: Working with Younger Students
• 12. Writing It Right
• Getting Started
• Writing Begins with Spelling
• Gadgets and Media Again
• The Vanishing Word Technique
• Picture and Word Cards
• Punctuation and Capitalization
• Dictation
• In Their Own Words
• Sidebar: Working with Younger Students
• 13. How We Know What the Students Know: Grading and Testing
• Grading in Mixed Ability Classrooms
• Individualized Education Plans
• Multi-Track Grading: Same Class, Different Goals
• No, You Aren't Cheating: What Counts for General Learners and College Prep Learners
• Keeping Noses to the Grindstone
• Testing Vocabulary
• Testing Spelling
• Testing Speaking and Listening
• Testing Grammar
• Self-Assessment: Giving Students Their Own Checklists
• Preparing Students for Standardized Tests (Please Don't)
• Sidebar: Working with Younger Students
• 14. Teaching English Learners with Special Needs
• Prior Education, Semilingualism, and Learning Disabilities
• What Does Special Education Offer Your Students?
• When They Need a Special Education Referral But Haven't Gotten One
• Determining the Appropriate Program
• Sidebar: Working with Younger Students
• 15. English Learners in Content Classes
• English Throughout the Curriculum
• Sheltered English Content Classes
• Content Objectives and Language Objectives
• A Sample Sheltered Science Lesson
• A Sample Sheltered Vocabulary Lesson
• Using Sheltered English to Teach and Practice Grammar
• When Are Students Ready to Wade into the Mainstream?
• The Power of Prior Knowledge
• The Power of Incidental Learning
• Reasonable and Unreasonable Modifications in the Inclusive Classroom
• The F Word (Failure)
• The Bright Side: Enriched Class Discussions
• Out-of-Class Support for English Learners in Regular Content Classes
• 16. Helping Everyone Else Understand Your Students
• Attitudes Make the Difference: Racism and Xenophobia
• I'm Here, So Shut the Door Already
• Exposing Other Students to Your Students' Culture
• Avoiding Trivial Pursuit and Superficial Multiculturalism
• Illuminating with Literary Classics From Other Traditions
• Living Social Studies
• Graphic Art and Music
• Mutual Tutoring and Dual Immersion
• 17. Preparing Yourself to Be a Better ESL Teacher
• Catching Up and Keeping Up with Advances in the Field
• Acquainting Yourself with Your Students' Culture
• Trying on Your Students' Shoes
• And If You Teach at the Base of the Tower of Babel...
• Vocabulary Lists
• Numbers 1 - 10
• Shapes
• Numbers 11-20
• People and Things
• Numbers by Tens
• Colors
• All Numbers to 100
• U.S. Currency
• Time
• Classroom Nouns
• Classroom Verbs
• Large Numbers: Hundred and Thousands
• Arithmetic I: Addition and Subtraction
• Alphabet A - H
• Arithmetic II: Multiplication and Division
• Alphabet I - P
• School Supplies
• Alphabet Q - Z
• Computer Nouns
• Computer Verbs
• Human Body
• Family
• Home Nouns
• Home Verbs
• Park and Playground
• Pets and Pet Accessories
• Farm Animals
• Wild Animals
• World Geography: Continents and Countries
• U.S. Geography: Oceans, Rivers, Mountain Ranges, Borders
• Ordinal Numbers
• City Geography: Streets, Avenues, Buildings, Directions, Travel
• Fruit and Vegetables
• Meat and Seafood
• Bakery Products
• Dairy Products
• Women's Clothing
• Men's Clothing
• Emotions
• Baseball
• Possessive Pronouns
• Prepositions and Their Objects
• Glossary
• Recommended Reading
• Recommended Websites
• References
• Index