Teaching English Language Learners: Content and Language in Middle and Secondary Mainstream Classrooms provides a reader-friendly guide to implementing and assessing high-level, content-area instruction for English Language Learners. Beginning with an overview of second language acquisition and the cultural variables that impact teaching and learning, authors Michaela Colombo and Dana Furbush go on to detail planning strategies, units and lessons. Practical in nature, this...

Forty-three evidence-based strategies for teaching English language learnersIdeal as a supplementary text for a variety of courses and as a guide for in-service teachers and for professional development settings, Teaching English Language Learners: 43 Strategies for Successful K–8 Classrooms provides teachers of all content areas with a broad, practical approach to teaching English language learners in the regular classroom setting.

As opposed to memorizing Italian phrases or forcing yourself to get through another dry Italian grammar or verb manual, this Dual Language Reader (DLR) keeps you eager and excited to turn each page! Short stories in DLR format serve as an excellent tool to aid you in developing the ability to think in Italian. This compilation features Carrolls classic masterpiece: Alices Adventures in Wonderland adapted from the superb Italian translation by Teodorico Pietrocòla-Rossetti. The key to maste...

PronPack is a set of four resource books to help teachers focus on English pronunciation in class – each takes a slightly different approach to pronunciation teaching. You can select the approach you prefer, or use the various books to complement one another.PronPack 2: Pronunciation Puzzles are challenging game-like activities which are fun to do in pairs or small groups but are equally effective for individual students. They include such puzzle t...

What is a rubric? A rubric is a coherent set of criteria for student work that describes levels of performance quality. Sounds simple enough, right? Unfortunately, rubrics are commonly misunderstood and misused.The good news is that when rubrics are created and used correctly, they are strong tools that support and enhance classroom instruction and student learning. In this comprehensive guide, author Susan M. Brookhart identifies two essential components ...

Heart-warming bedtime story in two languages (English and Persian, Farsi, Dari) for children from 2 years. Accompanied by online audiobooks and videos in English (British as well as American) and Persian, Farsi, DariTim can't fall asleep. His little wolf is missing! Perhaps he forgot him outside? Tim heads out all alone into the night – and unexpectedly encounters some friends…♫ Listen to the story read by native speakers! Within the book you'll find a link t...

Lovingly illustrated adaptation of Andersen's classic fairy tale. Bilingual edition (English and German), accompanied by online audiobooks and videos in English (British as well as American) and German and printable coloring pages."The Wild Swans" by Hans Christian Andersen is, with good reason, one of the world's most popular fairy tales. In its timeless form it addresses the issues out of which human dramas are made: fear, bravery, love, betrayal, separation and r...

Heart-warming bedtime story in two languages (English and Chinese) for children from 2 years. Accompanied by online audiobooks and videos in English (British as well as American) and ChineseTim can't fall asleep. His little wolf is missing! Perhaps he forgot him outside? Tim heads out all alone into the night – and unexpectedly encounters some friends…♫ Listen to the story read by native speakers! Within the book you'll find a link that gives you free access ...

The Fall 32(3) Issue of the Fourth Estate is an incredible issue hosting two interviews with prominent ESOL theorist, Steven Krashen and Bonny Norton as well as a variety of other articles and authors on developing ESOL student language proficiency.This issue also includes several lesson plans and activitives to help novice and experienced teachers discover and breakout into new methods.

Packed with critical analysis and real-life examples, this book explores how children's video games can cultivate learning. Lacasa takes several commercial video games and shows how they can be used both in and out of the classroom to teach initiative and problem-solving, encourage creativity, promote literacy, and develop reasoning skills.

Second Language Testing for Student Evaluation and Classroom Research and its accompanying Student Workbook are introductory-level resources for classroom teachers of all levels of experience, and early-career graduate students in applied linguistics, TESOL, and second/foreign language teaching programs. The book gives a balance between practice and theory for student evaluation, and also aims for readers to use testing to connect to classroom research and to their own teaching. Indeed, Se...

This title is the second Chandos Learning and Teaching Series book that explores themes surrounding enhancing learning and teaching through student feedback. It expands on topics covered in the previous publication, and focuses on social science disciplines. The editors previously addressed this gap in their first book Student Feedback: The cornerstone to an effective quality assurance system in higher education. In recent years, student feedback has appeared in the forefront of higher edu...