“Schools are not intentionally equitable places for English learners to achieve, but they could be if the right system of support were put in place. Diane Staehr Fenner and Sydney Snyder recommend just such a system. Not only does it have significant potential for providing fuller access to the core curriculum, it also provides a path for teachers to travel as they navigate the individual needs of students and support their learning journeys.” —Douglas Fisher, Coauthor of Visible Learning for Literacy A once-in-a-generation text for assisting a new generation of students Content teachers and ESOL teachers, take special note: if you’re looking for a single resource to help your English learners meet the same challenging content standards as their English-proficient peers, your search is complete. Just dip into this toolbox of strategies, examples, templates, and activities from EL authorities Diane Staehr Fenner and Sydney Snyder. The best part? Unlocking English Learners’ Potential supports teachers across all levels of experience. The question is not if English learners can succeed in today’s more rigorous classrooms, but how. Unlocking English Learners’ Potential is all about the how: How to scaffold ELs’ instruction across content and grade levels How to promote ELs’ oral language development and academic language How to help ELs analyze text through close reading and text-dependent questions How to build ELs’ background knowledge How to design and use formative assessment with ELs Along the way, you’ll build the collaboration, advocacy, and leadership skills that we all need if we’re to fully support our English learners. After all, any one of us with at least one student acquiring English is now a teacher of ELs.
She regularly includes discussion activities in her lessons and expects students
to be active participants in these discussions. She selects ... What impact might
culture have on ELs' participation in classroom discussions? 2. What might be ...
Engage your students in scientific thinking across disciplines! Did you know that scientists spend more than half of their time reading and writing? Students who are science literate can analyze, present, and defend data – both orally and in writing. The updated edition of this bestseller offers strategies to link the new science standards with literacy expectations, and specific ideas you can put to work right away. Features include: A discussion of how to use science to develop essential 21st century skills Instructional routines that help students become better writers Useful strategies for using complex scientific texts in the classroom Tools to monitor student progress through formative assessment Tips for high-stakes test preparation
The updated edition of this bestseller offers strategies to link the new science standards with literacy expectations, and specific ideas you can put to work right away.
Focuses on supporting students' academic development with targeted vocabulary instruction and provides strategies for vocabulary acquisition, read-alouds, independent reading, and decoding unknown words.
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10/12 22 11/2 25 12/5 25 Student B 9/10 15 10/12 14 11/2 17 12/5 19 Student C
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Keys to engaging secondary students Research shows that all students—regardless of learning style, disability category, or language difference—learn more effectively when they are engaged in active learning. This book shows teachers how to help all students achieve positive learning outcomes. The authors provide a compilation of strategies that serve as blueprints for instructional design and directions for using them across a variety of content areas. The many benefits of active learning include: A more engaged and interactive classroom Increased self-directed learning Development of higher-order thinking skills such as analysis, synthesis, evaluation Improved reading, discussion, and writing competencies
Organized by intelligence area, this resource provides more than 200 new and enhanced strategies to help teachers increase students' motivation and transform them into active learners.
Organized by intelligence area, this resource provides more than 200 new and enhanced strategies to help teachers increase students' motivation and transform them into active learners.
Use these powerful training tools to help teachers develop effective instructional strategies for students with learning disabilities! Based on David A. Sousa's bestseller, this facilitator's guide focuses on working with students with ADHD/ADD; speech, reading, writing, and math disabilities; emotional and behavioral disorders; autism; and Asperger syndrome. This complete chapter-by-chapter training resource is ideal for groups of any size. Highlights for the facilitator include: Activities for small or large groups Discussion and journaling prompts Supplemental reading linked to each chapter A workshop evaluation form
They do not believe that there is a connection between the effort they make and
the likelihood of academic success. • Teachers should help students with
learning disabilities decide which learning strategies to use in a particular
situation. Learning skills develop when students receive opportunities to discuss,
reflect upon, and practice cognitive and metacognitive strategies with classroom
materials and appropriate skills. • School-based interventions designed to boost
the self-esteem ...
In this clear-cut guide, Hartman and Glasgow decipher the latest educational research and translate it into easy-to-use classroom applications that foster effective science learning and professional development.
Research-Based Strategies to Help Students Learn Hope J. Hartman, Neal A.
Glasgow. readers," Baker (1989) notes that research on metacognitive strategies
indicates that such readers interact with their own domain-specific knowledge
while reading. ... Spence found significant correlations between metacognitive
awareness and science comprehension task success and a positive association
between metacognitive self-management and science reading comprehension.
He also ...
Being unable to remember social conventions, particularly when required to think
on their feet, creates relationship difficulties for students with ELN. ... Metacognition Problems Metacognition, as discussed by A. L. Brown (1975, 1978
, 1979) and J. H. Flavell (1971, 1979, 1999) in their extensive work on the subject
, particularly in the area of reading comprehension, refers to thinking about
thinking and controlling thinking; metamemory (thinking about and controlling
remembering), ...
Use instructional practices that lead students of poverty and diverse cultures to success! Donna Walker Tileston and Sandra K. Darling provide instructional strategies to help teachers improve learning in students of diverse cultures and poverty. This research-based book presents a six-part framework that builds on students’ assets and strengths. The authors discuss: Why some cultures are “turned off” by typical motivational approaches and what educators can do to reach students What research says about the brain’s desire to learn How teachers can build on students’ prior knowledge The importance of resiliency Teaching procedural and declarative knowledge and preparing students for tests
Strategies to Reach Every Student Donna Walker Tileston, Sandra K. Darling.
extracting basic information, or the main idea, from texts; (2) visual scanning; and
(3) retrieval processes. Teaching children the critical characteristics of different
kinds of texts,for example, how informational texts are patterned versushow
literary texts are patterned, helpsthem tostrengthen their metacognitive skillsfor
findingthe main idea of what they are reading. Explicitly teaching children howto
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Formerly a SkyLight publication. Take the mystery out of metacognition with the proven methods in this guide. With these easy-to-follow models you`ll discover how easy it is to incorporate reflection and how beneficial this strategy is for student learning.
