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.

"This book answers many questions about working with English Language Learners. The anecdotes, examples, and stories help make the theoretical concepts concrete. I really like the hands-on suggestions, and many of the strategies in the book can be used daily." -Brenna Godsey, Science Teacher Canyon High School, Anaheim, CA An authoritative reference for teachers facing an increasingly diverse school population. This third edition of the best-selling Children With Limited English: Teaching Strategies for the Regular Classroom provides preservice and inservice teachers, curriculum specialists, teacher mentors, and administrators with the necessary tools to meet the educational needs of English Language Learners in an inclusive classroom. This revised edition includes more strategies for building communication skills, increased visuals and activities for instruction, and fresh connections to current research, plus a new chapter on literacy and an expanded chapter on integrating current technology into the classroom. Additional aids include: A guided daily lesson plan format with adaptations for English Language Learners A description of language proficiency levels A wealth of tables, charts, and checklists to guide instruction and assessment