This teacher-friendly guide is packed with motivating lessons designed to improve the content learning and literacy skills of English language learners (ELLs) in K-8. Offering research-supported strategies that teachers can implement immediately, the book explains how to use content-area texts to support ELLs' growth in five crucial areas: comprehension, pronunciation, fluency, vocabulary, and grammar. This hands-on volume is:
unique: Demonstrates how to build ELLs' literacy skills and content knowledge simultaneously
effective: Research-supported strategies align with both TESOL and Common Core standards
practical: More than two dozen worksheets for classroom use are presented in a large, easy-to-reproduce format.
This book will be invaluable to K-8 teachers; ESL specialists; literacy coaches. It may also serve as a supplemental text in advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level courses.