Equitable Access for English Learners, Grades K-6
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Plain and simple: until our English learners have equitable access to the curriculum, they’ll continue to struggle with subject area content. And if you’re relying on add-on’s to fit in from your language arts basal or a supplementary program, Mary Soto, David Freeman, and Yvonne Freeman are here to equip you with much more effective, efficient, and engaging strategies for helping your English learners read and write at grade level.
One assurance right from the start: Mary, David, and Yvonne are not suggesting you reinvent your curriculum. Instead, Equitable Access for English Learners, Grades K-6, focuses on how to fortify foundational practices already in place. First, you’ll learn more about the Equitable Access Approach, then it’s time to dive into the book’s four units of study. Drawing on each unit’s many strategies, you’ll discover how to apply them to any unit in your own language arts curriculum and start differentiating:
- How to draft and implement language objectives to help English learners meet academic content standards
- How to make instructional input comprehensible, including translanguaging strategies that draw on your students’ first languages when you don’t know how to speak them
- How to utilize the characteristics of text to support readers, along with a rubric for determining a text’s cultural relevance
- How to build students’ academic content knowledge and develop academic language proficiency
Each unit addresses a commonly taught topic in today’s language arts programs and comes with ready-to-go review and preview activities, key strategies, grade-level adaptations, reflection exercises, and printable online resources. Taken as a whole, they constitute an all-new approach for providing that equitable and excellent access our English learners so rightfully deserve.
“When you adopt our Equitable Access Approach, your students will not only thrive, they’ll also find your language arts curriculum much more meaningful and engaging.”
—Mary Soto, David E. Freeman, and Yvonne S. Freeman
Contents
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
About the Authors
PART I: The Equitable Access Approach
- Chapter 1. Foundations for the Equitable Access Approach for English Learners
- Mandated Language Arts Programs
- Key Practices for Working With English Learners
- Conclusion
PART II: Example Units
- Chapter 2. Language Objectives: A Seeds, Plants, and Plant Growth Unit
- Language Objectives
- Putting the Unit Into Context: Rosa’s Seeds, Plants, and Plant Growth Unit
- Preview Activities: Drawing on and Building Background
- As We Engage in the Unit: View Activities
- Review Activities for Plants and Seeds Unit
- Your Turn: Unit Reflection
- Outline of Plants and Seeds Unit Strategies
- Preview Activities: Drawing on and Building Background
- As We Engage in the Unit: View Activities
- Review Activities for Plants and Seeds Unit
- Chapter 3. Making the Input Comprehensible: A Habitats Unit
- Making the Input Comprehensible
- Putting the Unit Into Context: Robert’s Unit on Habitats
- Preview Activities: Drawing on and Building Background
- As We Engage in the Unit: View Activities
- Review Activities for Habitats Unit
- Your Turn: Unit Reflection
- Outline of Habitats Unit Strategies
- Preview Activities: Drawing on and Building Background
- As We Engage in the Unit: View Activities
- Review Activity for Habitats Unit
- Chapter 4. Characteristics of Texts That Support Readers: Our Amazing Oceans Unit
- Characteristics of Texts That Support Readers
- Putting the Unit Into Context: Felipe’s Our Amazing Oceans Unit
- Preview Activities: Drawing on and Building Background
- As We Engage in the Unit: View Activities
- Review Activities for Oceans Unit
- Your Turn: Unit Reflection
- Outline of Our Amazing Oceans Unit Strategies
- Preview Activities: Drawing on and Building Background
- As We Engage in the Unit: View Activities
- Review Activities for Oceans Unit
- Chapter 5. Teaching Academic Language and Meaningful Content: Our Earth, Natural Disasters Unit
- Teaching Academic Language and Meaningful Content
- Putting the Unit Into Context: Gloria’s Our Earth, Natural Disasters Unit
- Preview Activities: Drawing on and Building Background
- As We Engage in the Unit: View Activities
- Review Activities for Natural Disasters Unit
- Your Turn: Unit Reflection
- Conclusion
- Outline of Natural Disasters Unit Strategies
- Preview Activities: Drawing on and Building Background
- As We Engage in the Unit: View Activities
- Review Activities for Natural Disasters Unit
Professional References
Professional References
Index
Index
Resources
Companion Website
https://resources.corwin.com/EquitableAccessK6Description
Plain and simple: until our English learners have equitable access to the curriculum, they’ll continue to struggle with subject area content. And if you’re relying on add-on’s to fit in from your language arts basal or a supplementary program, Mary Soto, David Freeman, and Yvonne Freeman are here to equip you with much more effective, efficient, and engaging strategies for helping your English learners read and write at grade level.
One assurance right from the start: Mary, David, and Yvonne are not suggesting you reinvent your curriculum. Instead, Equitable Access for English Learners, Grades K-6, focuses on how to fortify foundational practices already in place. First, you’ll learn more about the Equitable Access Approach, then it’s time to dive into the book’s four units of study. Drawing on each unit’s many strategies, you’ll discover how to apply them to any unit in your own language arts curriculum and start differentiating:
- How to draft and implement language objectives to help English learners meet academic content standards
- How to make instructional input comprehensible, including translanguaging strategies that draw on your students’ first languages when you don’t know how to speak them
- How to utilize the characteristics of text to support readers, along with a rubric for determining a text’s cultural relevance
- How to build students’ academic content knowledge and develop academic language proficiency
Each unit addresses a commonly taught topic in today’s language arts programs and comes with ready-to-go review and preview activities, key strategies, grade-level adaptations, reflection exercises, and printable online resources. Taken as a whole, they constitute an all-new approach for providing that equitable and excellent access our English learners so rightfully deserve.
“When you adopt our Equitable Access Approach, your students will not only thrive, they’ll also find your language arts curriculum much more meaningful and engaging.”
—Mary Soto, David E. Freeman, and Yvonne S. Freeman
Contents
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
About the Authors
PART I: The Equitable Access Approach
- Chapter 1. Foundations for the Equitable Access Approach for English Learners
- Mandated Language Arts Programs
- Key Practices for Working With English Learners
- Conclusion
PART II: Example Units
- Chapter 2. Language Objectives: A Seeds, Plants, and Plant Growth Unit
- Language Objectives
- Putting the Unit Into Context: Rosa’s Seeds, Plants, and Plant Growth Unit
- Preview Activities: Drawing on and Building Background
- As We Engage in the Unit: View Activities
- Review Activities for Plants and Seeds Unit
- Your Turn: Unit Reflection
- Outline of Plants and Seeds Unit Strategies
- Preview Activities: Drawing on and Building Background
- As We Engage in the Unit: View Activities
- Review Activities for Plants and Seeds Unit
- Chapter 3. Making the Input Comprehensible: A Habitats Unit
- Making the Input Comprehensible
- Putting the Unit Into Context: Robert’s Unit on Habitats
- Preview Activities: Drawing on and Building Background
- As We Engage in the Unit: View Activities
- Review Activities for Habitats Unit
- Your Turn: Unit Reflection
- Outline of Habitats Unit Strategies
- Preview Activities: Drawing on and Building Background
- As We Engage in the Unit: View Activities
- Review Activity for Habitats Unit
- Chapter 4. Characteristics of Texts That Support Readers: Our Amazing Oceans Unit
- Characteristics of Texts That Support Readers
- Putting the Unit Into Context: Felipe’s Our Amazing Oceans Unit
- Preview Activities: Drawing on and Building Background
- As We Engage in the Unit: View Activities
- Review Activities for Oceans Unit
- Your Turn: Unit Reflection
- Outline of Our Amazing Oceans Unit Strategies
- Preview Activities: Drawing on and Building Background
- As We Engage in the Unit: View Activities
- Review Activities for Oceans Unit
- Chapter 5. Teaching Academic Language and Meaningful Content: Our Earth, Natural Disasters Unit
- Teaching Academic Language and Meaningful Content
- Putting the Unit Into Context: Gloria’s Our Earth, Natural Disasters Unit
- Preview Activities: Drawing on and Building Background
- As We Engage in the Unit: View Activities
- Review Activities for Natural Disasters Unit
- Your Turn: Unit Reflection
- Conclusion
- Outline of Natural Disasters Unit Strategies
- Preview Activities: Drawing on and Building Background
- As We Engage in the Unit: View Activities
- Review Activities for Natural Disasters Unit
Professional References
Professional References
Index
Index
Resources
Companion Website
https://resources.corwin.com/EquitableAccessK6
Equitable Access for English Learners, Grades K-6
Strategies and Units for Differentiating Your Language Arts Curriculum
December 2019 | 200 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spiral | 01/02/2026 | 9781544376882 | $40.95 |
| Lifetime | 01/02/2026 | 9781544394350 | $37.00 |
Plain and simple: until our English learners have equitable access to the curriculum, they’ll continue to struggle with subject area content. And if you’re relying on add-on’s to fit in from your language arts basal or a supplementary program, Mary Soto, David Freeman, and Yvonne Freeman are here to equip you with much more effective, efficient, and engaging strategies for helping your English learners read and write at grade level.
One assurance right from the start: Mary, David, and Yvonne are not suggesting you reinvent your curriculum. Instead, Equitable Access for English Learners, Grades K-6, focuses on how to fortify foundational practices already in place. First, you’ll learn more about the Equitable Access Approach, then it’s time to dive into the book’s four units of study. Drawing on each unit’s many strategies, you’ll discover how to apply them to any unit in your own language arts curriculum and start differentiating:
- How to draft and implement language objectives to help English learners meet academic content standards
- How to make instructional input comprehensible, including translanguaging strategies that draw on your students’ first languages when you don’t know how to speak them
- How to utilize the characteristics of text to support readers, along with a rubric for determining a text’s cultural relevance
- How to build students’ academic content knowledge and develop academic language proficiency
Each unit addresses a commonly taught topic in today’s language arts programs and comes with ready-to-go review and preview activities, key strategies, grade-level adaptations, reflection exercises, and printable online resources. Taken as a whole, they constitute an all-new approach for providing that equitable and excellent access our English learners so rightfully deserve.
“When you adopt our Equitable Access Approach, your students will not only thrive, they’ll also find your language arts curriculum much more meaningful and engaging.”
—Mary Soto, David E. Freeman, and Yvonne S. Freeman
Table Of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- PART I: The Equitable Access Approach
- Chapter 1. Foundations for the Equitable Access Approach for English Learners
- Mandated Language Arts Programs
- Key Practices for Working With English Learners
- Conclusion
- PART II: Example Units
- Chapter 2. Language Objectives: A Seeds, Plants, and Plant Growth Unit
- Language Objectives
- Putting the Unit Into Context: Rosa’s Seeds, Plants, and Plant Growth Unit
- Preview Activities: Drawing on and Building Background
- As We Engage in the Unit: View Activities
- Review Activities for Plants and Seeds Unit
- Your Turn: Unit Reflection
- Outline of Plants and Seeds Unit Strategies
- Preview Activities: Drawing on and Building Background
- As We Engage in the Unit: View Activities
- Review Activities for Plants and Seeds Unit
- Chapter 3. Making the Input Comprehensible: A Habitats Unit
- Making the Input Comprehensible
- Putting the Unit Into Context: Robert’s Unit on Habitats
- Preview Activities: Drawing on and Building Background
- As We Engage in the Unit: View Activities
- Review Activities for Habitats Unit
- Your Turn: Unit Reflection
- Outline of Habitats Unit Strategies
- Preview Activities: Drawing on and Building Background
- As We Engage in the Unit: View Activities
- Review Activity for Habitats Unit
- Chapter 4. Characteristics of Texts That Support Readers: Our Amazing Oceans Unit
- Characteristics of Texts That Support Readers
- Putting the Unit Into Context: Felipe’s Our Amazing Oceans Unit
- Preview Activities: Drawing on and Building Background
- As We Engage in the Unit: View Activities
- Review Activities for Oceans Unit
- Your Turn: Unit Reflection
- Outline of Our Amazing Oceans Unit Strategies
- Preview Activities: Drawing on and Building Background
- As We Engage in the Unit: View Activities
- Review Activities for Oceans Unit
- Chapter 5. Teaching Academic Language and Meaningful Content: Our Earth, Natural Disasters Unit
- Teaching Academic Language and Meaningful Content
- Putting the Unit Into Context: Gloria’s Our Earth, Natural Disasters Unit
- Preview Activities: Drawing on and Building Background
- As We Engage in the Unit: View Activities
- Review Activities for Natural Disasters Unit
- Your Turn: Unit Reflection
- Conclusion
- Outline of Natural Disasters Unit Strategies
- Preview Activities: Drawing on and Building Background
- As We Engage in the Unit: View Activities
- Review Activities for Natural Disasters Unit
- Professional References
- Index