Secondary ELA teachers, be excited: here at last is that crash
course in utilizing the best of what we already know about teaching
reading, writing, and language to ensure our English learners
thrive. Take Penny Kittle and Donalyn Miller's reader's workshops.
Take Kylene Beers and Robert Probst's "signposts." Take the best
writing techniques advanced by the National Writing Project. Take
Jim Burke's essential questions for life. Award-winning EL
authorities Mandy Stewart and Holly Genova describe immediate
adaptations you can put in place to simultaneously build your ELs'
language and literacy, while affirming their languages, cultures,
and unique lived experiences. A rare blend of the humane and
practical, But Does This Work with English Learners? is a book on
how to leverage our ELs' full linguistic repertoires in the ELA
classroom, while remaining sensitive to those barriers that could
restrict learning. With this book as your guide, you'll learn how
to: Look beyond the labels, and better understand the diversity of
ELs, English language proficiency levels, and sociopolitical
influences Teach and assess through reader's workshop, recognizing
where comprehensible input fits in and adapting recurring features
like support, choice, conferencing, and academic conversations
Teach and assess through writer's workshops, including
modifications to quick-writes, minilessons, conferencing, sharing,
and more Teach through structures and community with classroom
schedules and behavior norms, and activities like All About Me
Paragraphs and Six Things You Need to Know About Me Listicles
Embrace identity in inquiry cycles via research and family
interviews, mentor texts and essays, pictorial autobiographies,
memory paragraphs, and more Answer your own FAQs such as How do I
teach students if I don't know their language? What about grammar?
How do I teach the grade-level ELA standards while I teach the
language? "As you read this book," Mandy and Holly write, "our hope
is that you will begin to see your students as multilinguals-people
who already have language as well as a wealth of knowledge and are
just adding English to that great repertoire." If you have even a
single English learner in your classroom, we urge you to read this
book and institute its practices. Right away! "Mandy Stewart and
Holly Genova have given us a primer for the evolving complexities
of our classroom melting pots, a map for navigating the murky
waters of regulations, and most importantly, a recipe for opening
our arms to children from all over the world. They welcome them
with thoughts like 'A foreign accent is a sign of bravery.'"
~Gretchen Bernabei, Coauthor of Fun-Sized Academic Writing for
Serious Learning "After reading this book, I was left with the
feeling that I learned something new on every page--something that
I had previously either wondered about or struggled to understand.
Mandy Stewart and Holly Genova are the guides we all need to help
us understand and better address the needs of our English
learners." ~Jim Burke, Author of The English Teacher's Companion
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