Special PLC discount when you buy 15 copies of English Learners,
Academic Literacy, and Thinking. A $352 value for $282.
A Study Guide is available for this title. Click here to
download. To download some helpful suggestions for book study
groups, click here."For educators individually and collectively who
aspire to implement a curriculum based on intellectual quality, and
who recognize the importance of infusing the teaching of academic
literacy across the curriculum, Pauline Gibbons' book provides
inspiration and guidance. The wealth of classroom examples based on
actual practice convincingly refutes the argument, reflected in
much current practice, that EL and low-income students are
incapable of benefiting from an intellectually challenging,
inquiry-based curriculum." - Jim CumminsUniversity of Toronto Deep
understanding, critical thinking, subject knowledge, and control of
academic literacy are goals we have for all our students. The
challenge for teachers is to find a way of teaching that helps
everyone, including English learners, to reach these high
expectations. In "English Learners, Academic Literacy, and
Thinking"," " Pauline Gibbons presents an action-oriented approach
that gives English learners high-level support to match our high
expectations. Focusing on the middle grades of school, she shows
how to plan rigorous, literacy-oriented, content-based instruction
and illustrates what a high-challenge, high-support curriculum
looks like in practice. Gibbons (author of "Scaffolding Language,
Scaffolding Learning") presents and discusses in detail five broad
areas that enable English learners to participate in high-quality
learning across the curriculum: engaging deeply with intellectual
contexts developing academic literacy employing reading strategies
and improving comprehension gaining writing independence and
learning content-area genres using classroom talk to make sense of
new concepts and as a bridge to writing. Based on these areas she
then presents guidelines on designing long-term, high-quality
instruction that simultaneously provides explicit scaffolding for
English learners. Gibbons makes these guidelines an instructional
reality through dozens of examples of rich activities and tasks
that can be used across the curriculum and that support the
learning of all students. "English Learners, Academic Literacy, and
Thinking" supports teachers with doable plans for instruction,
reflection questions for individual or group study together, and
suggestions for further reading. The book is a valuable resource
for inservice training and college courses and provides an ideal
basis for a schoolwide response to the growing challenges of
raising the achievement of English language learners.
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