English Language Learners in Your Classroom

Strategies That Work
Third Edition
Ellen Kottler - California State University, Fullerton, USA
Jeffrey A. Kottler - California State University, Fullerton, USA
Christopher P. Street - Cal State University, Fullerton, USA
English Language Learners in Your Classroom
December 2007 | 216 pages | Corwin
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"This book answers many questions about working with English Language Learners. The anecdotes, examples, and stories help make the theoretical concepts concrete. I really like the hands-on suggestions, and many of the strategies in the book can be used daily."
—Brenna Godsey, Science Teacher
Canyon High School, Anaheim, CA

An authoritative reference for teachers facing an increasingly diverse school population.

This third edition of the best-selling Children With Limited English: Teaching Strategies for the Regular Classroom provides preservice and inservice teachers, curriculum specialists, teacher mentors, and administrators with the necessary tools to meet the educational needs of English Language Learners in an inclusive classroom.

This revised edition includes more strategies for building communication skills, increased visuals and activities for instruction, and fresh connections to current research, plus a new chapter on literacy and an expanded chapter on integrating current technology into the classroom. Additional aids include:

  • A guided daily lesson plan format with adaptations for English Language Learners
  • A description of language proficiency levels
  • A wealth of tables, charts, and checklists to guide instruction and assessment

Contents

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

  • 1. Getting to Know the Student
  • Sensitivity to Cultural and Linguistic Differences
  • Identifying Terms
  • Relationships Are Everything
  • Understand the Student's World
  • Explore the Student's Family Background
  • Pay Attention to Social and Cultural Customs
  • Suggested Activities
  • 2. Establishing a Comfortable Environment
  • Welcome Students to Your Room
  • Select Display Materials
  • Establish Routines
  • Create a Community of Learners
  • Foster Classroom Involvement
  • Celebrate Diversity
  • Open Doors to Families
  • Suggested Activities
  • 3. Understanding Second-Language Development
  • Second-Language Principles
  • Language Processes
  • Developing Proficiency
  • Assessing Fluency Levels
  • High-Stakes Testing
  • First- to Second-Language Learning
  • Suggested Activities
  • 4. Strategies for Teaching
  • Motivate Students to Learn
  • Structure Language Delivery
  • Scaffold (Support) Instruction
  • Use Research-Based Strategies to Improve Achievement
  • Address Learning Styles
  • Incorporate Multiple Intelligences
  • Use Multisensory Activities to Engage Students
  • Suggested Activities
  • 5. Building Literacy
  • Writing Skills
  • Reading Skills
  • Speaking Skills
  • Listening Skills
  • Structured Communication Activities
  • Responsive Instruction
  • Have Fun
  • Suggested Activities
  • 6. Using Strategies Borrowed From Language Instruction
  • Learning From Foreign Language Instruction
  • Applying Strategies Used by English Language Teachers
  • Brain-Compatible Second-Language Acquisition
  • Summary of Strategies Adapted From Teaching Second Languages
  • Suggested Activities
  • 7. Integrating Technology
  • Television
  • Telephone
  • Audio Recording
  • Video Recording
  • Computer Technology
  • Online Resources for Teachers
  • Promoting Critical Thinking
  • Benefits of Using Technology With English Learners
  • Suggested Activities
  • 8. Involving Others
  • Peer Instruction
  • Team Teaching
  • School Personnel
  • Cross-Age Tutoring
  • Parents and Families
  • Intergenerational Tutoring
  • Community Resources
  • Cultural Exchange Programs
  • Language for All
  • Suggested Activities
  • 9. Putting It All Together
  • Classroom Implications of Brain Research
  • Planning Instruction and Assessment
  • A Lesson Plan Format
  • The Power of Language
  • Suggested Activities

References

References

Index

Index

Additional materials

Description

"This book answers many questions about working with English Language Learners. The anecdotes, examples, and stories help make the theoretical concepts concrete. I really like the hands-on suggestions, and many of the strategies in the book can be used daily."
—Brenna Godsey, Science Teacher
Canyon High School, Anaheim, CA

An authoritative reference for teachers facing an increasingly diverse school population.

This third edition of the best-selling Children With Limited English: Teaching Strategies for the Regular Classroom provides preservice and inservice teachers, curriculum specialists, teacher mentors, and administrators with the necessary tools to meet the educational needs of English Language Learners in an inclusive classroom.

This revised edition includes more strategies for building communication skills, increased visuals and activities for instruction, and fresh connections to current research, plus a new chapter on literacy and an expanded chapter on integrating current technology into the classroom. Additional aids include:

  • A guided daily lesson plan format with adaptations for English Language Learners
  • A description of language proficiency levels
  • A wealth of tables, charts, and checklists to guide instruction and assessment

Contents

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

  • 1. Getting to Know the Student
  • Sensitivity to Cultural and Linguistic Differences
  • Identifying Terms
  • Relationships Are Everything
  • Understand the Student's World
  • Explore the Student's Family Background
  • Pay Attention to Social and Cultural Customs
  • Suggested Activities
  • 2. Establishing a Comfortable Environment
  • Welcome Students to Your Room
  • Select Display Materials
  • Establish Routines
  • Create a Community of Learners
  • Foster Classroom Involvement
  • Celebrate Diversity
  • Open Doors to Families
  • Suggested Activities
  • 3. Understanding Second-Language Development
  • Second-Language Principles
  • Language Processes
  • Developing Proficiency
  • Assessing Fluency Levels
  • High-Stakes Testing
  • First- to Second-Language Learning
  • Suggested Activities
  • 4. Strategies for Teaching
  • Motivate Students to Learn
  • Structure Language Delivery
  • Scaffold (Support) Instruction
  • Use Research-Based Strategies to Improve Achievement
  • Address Learning Styles
  • Incorporate Multiple Intelligences
  • Use Multisensory Activities to Engage Students
  • Suggested Activities
  • 5. Building Literacy
  • Writing Skills
  • Reading Skills
  • Speaking Skills
  • Listening Skills
  • Structured Communication Activities
  • Responsive Instruction
  • Have Fun
  • Suggested Activities
  • 6. Using Strategies Borrowed From Language Instruction
  • Learning From Foreign Language Instruction
  • Applying Strategies Used by English Language Teachers
  • Brain-Compatible Second-Language Acquisition
  • Summary of Strategies Adapted From Teaching Second Languages
  • Suggested Activities
  • 7. Integrating Technology
  • Television
  • Telephone
  • Audio Recording
  • Video Recording
  • Computer Technology
  • Online Resources for Teachers
  • Promoting Critical Thinking
  • Benefits of Using Technology With English Learners
  • Suggested Activities
  • 8. Involving Others
  • Peer Instruction
  • Team Teaching
  • School Personnel
  • Cross-Age Tutoring
  • Parents and Families
  • Intergenerational Tutoring
  • Community Resources
  • Cultural Exchange Programs
  • Language for All
  • Suggested Activities
  • 9. Putting It All Together
  • Classroom Implications of Brain Research
  • Planning Instruction and Assessment
  • A Lesson Plan Format
  • The Power of Language
  • Suggested Activities

References

References

Index

Index

Additional materials

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Strategies That Work

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"This book answers many questions about working with English Language Learners. The anecdotes, examples, and stories help make the theoretical concepts concrete. I really like the hands-on suggestions, and many of the strategies in the book can be used daily."
—Brenna Godsey, Science Teacher
Canyon High School, Anaheim, CA

An authoritative reference for teachers facing an increasingly diverse school population.

This third edition of the best-selling Children With Limited English: Teaching Strategies for the Regular Classroom provides preservice and inservice teachers, curriculum specialists, teacher mentors, and administrators with the necessary tools to meet the educational needs of English Language Learners in an inclusive classroom.

This revised edition includes more strategies for building communication skills, increased visuals and activities for instruction, and fresh connections to current research, plus a new chapter on literacy and an expanded chapter on integrating current technology into the classroom. Additional aids include:

  • A guided daily lesson plan format with adaptations for English Language Learners
  • A description of language proficiency levels
  • A wealth of tables, charts, and checklists to guide instruction and assessment

Table Of Contents:

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Authors
  • 1. Getting to Know the Student
  • Sensitivity to Cultural and Linguistic Differences
  • Identifying Terms
  • Relationships Are Everything
  • Understand the Student's World
  • Explore the Student's Family Background
  • Pay Attention to Social and Cultural Customs
  • Suggested Activities
  • 2. Establishing a Comfortable Environment
  • Welcome Students to Your Room
  • Select Display Materials
  • Establish Routines
  • Create a Community of Learners
  • Foster Classroom Involvement
  • Celebrate Diversity
  • Open Doors to Families
  • Suggested Activities
  • 3. Understanding Second-Language Development
  • Second-Language Principles
  • Language Processes
  • Developing Proficiency
  • Assessing Fluency Levels
  • High-Stakes Testing
  • First- to Second-Language Learning
  • Suggested Activities
  • 4. Strategies for Teaching
  • Motivate Students to Learn
  • Structure Language Delivery
  • Scaffold (Support) Instruction
  • Use Research-Based Strategies to Improve Achievement
  • Address Learning Styles
  • Incorporate Multiple Intelligences
  • Use Multisensory Activities to Engage Students
  • Suggested Activities
  • 5. Building Literacy
  • Writing Skills
  • Reading Skills
  • Speaking Skills
  • Listening Skills
  • Structured Communication Activities
  • Responsive Instruction
  • Have Fun
  • Suggested Activities
  • 6. Using Strategies Borrowed From Language Instruction
  • Learning From Foreign Language Instruction
  • Applying Strategies Used by English Language Teachers
  • Brain-Compatible Second-Language Acquisition
  • Summary of Strategies Adapted From Teaching Second Languages
  • Suggested Activities
  • 7. Integrating Technology
  • Television
  • Telephone
  • Audio Recording
  • Video Recording
  • Computer Technology
  • Online Resources for Teachers
  • Promoting Critical Thinking
  • Benefits of Using Technology With English Learners
  • Suggested Activities
  • 8. Involving Others
  • Peer Instruction
  • Team Teaching
  • School Personnel
  • Cross-Age Tutoring
  • Parents and Families
  • Intergenerational Tutoring
  • Community Resources
  • Cultural Exchange Programs
  • Language for All
  • Suggested Activities
  • 9. Putting It All Together
  • Classroom Implications of Brain Research
  • Planning Instruction and Assessment
  • A Lesson Plan Format
  • The Power of Language
  • Suggested Activities
  • References
  • Index

Recent Product Reviews:

"This is just the kind of book I need to answer the many questions that I have about how to work with my English language learners. I really like the hands-on suggestions, and I can use many of the strategies in the book almost every day. The anecdotes, examples, and stories help make the theoretical concepts concrete for me."
Brenna Godsey, Science Teacher, Canyon High School, Anaheim, CA
"I have been looking for useful resources to help me better meet the needs of my EL students in my English classes. Reading this book has really helped me feel good about what I am doing with my students. I realize now that the ways I have been teaching are not just effective because they work for me; there is research to support what I have been doing."
John Meulmester, English Department Chairman, Cerro Villa Middle School, Villa Park, CA
"Supplies the teacher who is new to working with English language learners with a repertoire of strategies and resources sufficient to begin immediate, positive interventions in the classroom. The text establishes best practices in English language teaching within the context of current educational research and relates them to best practices for all."
Holly A. Hitchcock, English Language Teacher, Wydown Middle School, Clayton, MO
"This book gives lots of information in a simple, easy-to-access format."
Noni Mendoza Ries, Chair of Educational Leadership, San Jose State University

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