Language has always been the center of English Language Arts, but with most states adopting CCSS, the focus on language and literacy across the content areas is required. Today it's more essential than ever that English language learners and proficient English learners have the supports to access and achieve the language of school.
The Common Core and ELD standards provide pathways to academic success through academic language. Using an integrated Curricular Framework, districts, schools and professional learning communities can:
- Design and implement thematic units for learning
- Draw from content and language standards to set targets for all students
- Examine standards - centered materials for academic language
- Collaborate in planning instruction and assessment within and across lessons
- Consider linguistic and cultural resources of the students
- Create differentiated content and language objectives
- Delve deeply into instructional strategies involving academic language
- Reflect on teaching and learning
With dynamic classrooms and units of learning, this book gives you a streamlined path for designing and implementing curriculum that leads to student mastery of academic language - the key to school success.
Features- Title - Academic Language in Diverse Classrooms: English Language Arts, Grades 6 - 8
- Sub Title - Promoting Content and Language Learning
- Authored - Margo Gottlieb
- Primary Author Affiliation - Illinois Resource Center and WIDA
- Other Author - Gisela Ernst - Slavit
- Binding - Paperback
- Pages - 224
- Publication Date - 01 - Oct - 13
- Primary Subject Code Description - Bilingual/ELL Learners - C42
- Item weight - 16 oz.
- Copy Right Year - 2014
About the AuthorMargo Gottlieb, Ph.D., Lead Developer for World - Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA) at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Director, Assessment and Evaluation, for the Illinois Resource Center, crafts language standards, designs assessments, and creates instructional assessment systems for English language learners. She has presented and published extensively; her books include: Common Language Assessment for English Learners (2012), Paper to Practice: Using the TESOL's English Language Proficiency Standards in PreK - 12 Classrooms (with A. Katz & G. Ernst - Slavit, 2009); Assessment and Accountability in Language Education Programs: A Guide for Administrators and Teachers (with D. Nguyen, 2007); and Assessing English Language Learners: Bridges from Language Proficiency to Academic Achievement (2006).
