Teachers who work with English as a Second Language learners will find ESL/ESOL/ELL/EFL reading/writing skill-building children's books, stories, activities, ideas, strategies to help PreK-3, 4-8, and 9-12 students learn to read.
Guides to Culturally Responsive Instruction for ELLs
Product Description: This text on anti-bias activities integrates information about developmentally-based planning and child development that reflects the current diversities of our society. Activities are organized by developmental areas and by curriculum areas (e.g. math, language, social studies, science, art, music, etc.). A sequential Anti-Bias Developmental Overview chart summarizes all 300 activities as an illustration of skill progression from infancy to school age.
This unique and useful directory offers librarians, educators, and students of children's literature a diverse listing of children's and young adult books that have been recognized by culturally-specific awards about Jewish, African-American, Latino, Caribbean, and Asian-American cultures. Part I provides an overview of the awards (such as the Pura Belpré and Coretta Scott King Award), and Part II provides an alphabetical list of titles with a brief synopsis and publication information. There is also a topical index and an index of authors, editors, illustrators, and translators.
In this practical workbook, Bonnie M. Davis provides educators with a framework for teaching diverse learners of all ages. Davis encourages educators to examine their own cultural perspective and its influence on their interaction with students, as well as to think about how culture may shape students' communication styles, background knowledge, and behavior. Davis also offers thoughtful guiding questions to help educators reflect on their own expectations of students from different backgrounds, as well as culturally relevant classroom and parent outreach strategies. Facilitator guide included.
This groundbreaking book by researchers Carrie Rothstein-Fisch and Elise Trumbull examines the impact of culture on classroom management. The authors present the results of Bridging Cultures, a longitudinal five-year action research project focused on immigrant students in the U.S. school system. The result was a transformational approach to classroom management in areas such as instruction, behavior, assessment, and parent relationships. The book shares a number of valuable lessons (particularly for the ELL classroom) learned by the teachers and researchers, as well as clear examples of strategies that did and did not work in specific classroom settings.
Product Description: Even the most experienced teacher can feel a bit unsure about meeting the unique needs of children from different language backgrounds. Organized by interest areas and times of the day, you'll find everything you need to open the doors of literacy and learning for young English language learners during dramatic play, outdoor play, reading, science, blocks, and circle time.
Product Description: This book educates professionals about the features of narrative discourse from a multicultural perspective. The authors seek to prevent misdiagnoses of cultural differences as deficits. The importance of narratives for children and adults is presented with respect to literacy, education, law and medicine. Narratives from children with typical and impaired discourse development are described regarding the following cultures: European North American, African American, Spanish-speaking communities, and Asian Americans. This book is intended for speech-language pathologists, early childhood specialists, elementary and high school educators, as well as students in these disciplines.
Product Description: This book is a comprehensive text on the historical, theoretical, political, and sociological aspects of multicultural education as it relates to young children. The text provides practical guidelines, curriculum suggestions, and techniques for use in the classroom. This third edition includes updated content on demographics, children with special needs, and children's book lists. Readers will also follow Barbara, a kindergarten teacher, through the chapters to see how she handles the dilemmas and issues that arise in her day-to-day work.
Product Description: The Flat World and Education offers an eye-opening wake-up call concerning America's future and vividly illustrates what the United States needs to do to build a system of high-achieving and equitable schools that ensures every child the right to learn.
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