Multilingual Learner Books Multilingual Learner Books
Unlocking English Learners’ Potential: Strategies for Making Content Accessible
$28.50 | Paperback
- How to scaffold instruction across content and grade levels
- How to build background knowledge
- How to analyze text through close reading and text dependent questions
- How to promote oral language and vocabulary development
- How to evaluate and use formative assessment
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Chapter 1 — Why You Need This Book to Support ELs
Chapter 2 — Using a Culturally Responsive Framework to Meet the Needs of ELs
Chapter 3 — Scaffolding Instruction for ELs
Chapter 4 — Academic Conversations: A Tool for Fostering ELs’ Oral Language Development
Chapter 5 — Teaching Academic Language to ELs
Chapter 6 — Vocabulary Instruction and ELs
Chapter 7 — Teaching ELs Background Knowledge
Chapter 8 — Supporting ELs’ Reading for Multiple Purposes Through Using Scaffolded Text-Dependent Questions
Chapter 9 — Formative Assessment for ELs
Diane Staehr Fenner, PhD, president and founder of SupportEd, established the company in 2011 as a way to serve educators who work to help multilingual learners (MLs) realize their full potential. Dr. Staehr Fenner is an author of six educational learning books. She is a frequent keynote presenter on ML education at conferences across North America. She spent a decade as an ESOL teacher, dual language assessment teacher, and ESOL assessment specialist in Fairfax County Public Schools, VA and taught English in Mexico and Germany. She earned her Ph.D. in Multilingual/Multicultural Education with an emphasis in Literacy at George Mason University. She earned her MAT in TESOL at the School for International Training and her Masters in German at Penn State University. She lives in Fairfax, VA with her husband and three school-age kids who learned math and science through Spanish in their public elementary school. Dr. Staehr Fenner grew up on a dairy farm in New York State’s Finger Lakes region and is a first-generation college graduate.
ISBN: 9781506352770
Release Date: May 2017
Page Count: 272
Publisher: Corwin
Format: Paperback
Language: English