Effective Instruction for English Language Learners: Supporting Text-Based Comprehension and Communication Skills

By Kelly Johnson, Diane Lapp, Julie Jacobson

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609182529
• ISBN13: 9781609182526
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Guilford Publications
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.9" x 10.4"