Thoroughly revised and updated, the third edition of
Teaching English Language Learners: Strategies for the Classroom serves as an authoritative reference for teachers facing an increasingly diverse school population.
Based on the best-selling Children with Limited English: Teaching Strategies for the Regular Classroom, Second Edition, this revised edition offers preservice and inservice teachers additional teaching strategies for building literacy, increased visuals and activities throughout the text, and new connections to current research. The authors offer a new chapter on literacy skills with specific resources for reading, writing, speaking, and listening activities and a reinvigorated chapter on integrating current technology in the classroom with suggestions for online resources.
Additional aids for instructors include:
-A guided daily lesson plan format that includes adaptations for English language learners
-New methods for assessing students
-A description of language proficiency levels
-Guidelines for creating a comfortable classroom environment
-A wealth of tables, charts, and checklists to help guide instruction and assessment
Providing teachers the survival skills necessary to meet the challenges of English Language Learners in the regular classroom, this text will also be a useful reference for curriculum specialists, teacher mentors, and administrators.
