• practical strategies for building on common classroom techniques and activities to increase teaching effectiveness for language-learning students
• techniques to recognize cultural differences, develop alternative assessments, and adapt written assignments and oral language for ELLs
• abundant models, graphics, and authentic examples that show how to help students build content-area fluency as well as general language skills

Literacy, Technology, and Diversity reflects on the idea that great expectations are achievable through educational projects that foster academic growth, with classroom diversity and technology as catalysts for deeper learning, and that a narrow focus ongrade expectations yields superficial results.

• Provides examples of projects, backed by research-based theories for their effective adaptation to help both pre-service and practicing teachers become more independent and creative in the ways they use technology.
• Gives useful suggestions on how to effectively integrate literacy and technology into the classroom.
• Presents Portraits (Case studies) of collaborative projects promoting literacy learning and often involving technology on such topics as: Cognition, Assessment, Community of Learning, and Tools and Resources in Section II.
• Contains an appendix of short vignettes of exemplary projects that promote learning of standards-based expectations for academic achievement.
• Includes a complimentary CD-ROM of additional resources for teachers as well as updated portraits on exemplary projects.

This popular series addresses the needs of primary teachers, teacher trainers, and trainee teachers. Each book contains guidance for the teacher, 60 to 100 activities for primary children, and 20 photocopiable worksheets. The activities are explained clearly and simply, with aims, age range and level clearly laid out.

A series of short, accessible books containing lesson plans for teaching elementary to intermediate level students. The activities are simple and adaptable and come complete with ideas for board work and pictures teachers can copy. They are particularly well suited to classrooms where there are few resources.

It is designed for teachers who are new to ELT or who are looking for new, creative ways of teaching with limited resources.

Academic Language for English Language Learners and Struggling Readers provides the information busy secondary teachers need to work effectively with English learners and struggling readers. It reports current research to answer key questions:

• Who are our older English language learners and struggling readers?
• What is academic language?
• How can middle and high school teachers help students develop academic language in the different content areas?

This comprehensive and readable text by Yvonne and David Freeman (authors of Essential Linguistics) synthesizes recent demographic data on the kinds of English language learners and struggling readers who attend middle and high schools in increasing numbers. They flesh out the statistics with stories of students from different backgrounds. Then the Freemans examine academic language at different levels: the text level, the paragraph level, the sentence level, and the word level. For each, they provide examples of academic language and specific strategies teachers can use as they teach language arts, science, math, and social studies. They also analyze content-area textbooks, pointing out the difficulties they pose for students and suggesting ways to make texts more accessible to ELLs and struggling readers.

Providing classroom examples, the Freemans explain how teachers can motivate and engage their students. They describe how teachers can teach language and content simultaneously by developing both language and content objectives. Academic Language for English Language Learners gives teachers the information and strategies they need to help all their students develop academic language.

Teaching Learners of English in Mainstream Classrooms is a unique text designed to help K-8 classroom teachers integrate language learning into the content curriculum.

Today’s ELL and Literacy courses place an increasing emphasis on the integration of content and language learning in classroom lessons. This book helps teachers teach their grade level curriculum even though they may have English language learners in their classrooms. By using the strategies provided, teachers can promote content achievement for all of their students. Specifically written for content teachers, Linda New Levine and Mary Lou McCloskey’s clear and friendly writing style emphasizes practical application of known second language learning principles. This text clarifies concepts, defines key terms and offers classroom teachers practical strategies and tools not found in similar texts to integrate content and language learning, accelerating the academic achievement of their students. Sample thematic units provide strategies for integrating content and language learning. Techniques for developing reading writing and speaking skills in the content areas are also emphasized.  

The 17 articles in this book address such topics as word analogy instruction, decoding, phonemic awareness, read-alouds, flashcards, phsycholinguists, spelling development, vocabulary development, scaffolding, and context use. The book also includes International Reading Association position statements on early literacy instruction.

Two of the leading experts on English language learning, David Freeman and Yvonne Freeman, show mainstream teachers in a variety of settings how to support language growth through content areas, organize curriculum around themes, draw on primary language and culture, emphasize meaningful reading and writing, and develop academic language. Scenarios from classrooms at different grade levels show teachers how to implement effective practices for meeting the needs of their English language learners.

Deep understanding, critical thinking, subject knowledge, and control of academic literacy are goals we have for all our students. The challenge for teachers is to find a way of teaching that helps everyone, including English learners, to reach these high expectations. In English Learners, Academic Literacy, and Thinking, Pauline Gibbons presents an action-oriented approach that gives English learners high-level support to match our high expectations. Focusing on the middle grades of school, she shows how to plan rigorous, literacy-oriented, content-based instruction and illustrates what a high-challenge, high-support curriculum looks like in practice. 

Gibbons (author of Scaffolding Language, Scaffolding Learning) presents and discusses in detail five broad areas that enable English learners to participate in high-quality learning across the curriculum:

• engaging deeply with intellectual contexts
• developing academic literacy
• employing reading strategies and improving comprehension
• gaining writing independence and learning content-area genres
• using classroom talk to make sense of new concepts and as a bridge to writing.

Based on these areas she then presents guidelines on designing long-term, high-quality instruction that simultaneously provides explicit scaffolding for English learners. Gibbons makes these guidelines an instructional reality through dozens of examples of rich activities and tasks that can be used across the curriculum and that support the learning of all students. 

English Learners, Academic Literacy, and Thinking supports teachers with doable plans for instruction, reflection questions for individual or group study together, and suggestions for further reading. The book is a valuable resource for inservice trai

This book presents a comprehensive plan for vocabulary instruction from kindergarten through high school—a plan broad enough for students with small or with exceptional vocabularies, and every child in between.

Written by one of the top experts in the field, The Vocabulary Book offers a research-based program with plenty of classroom examples and strategies that teachers can use. You’ll get sound advice and models of exemplary instruction as well as portraits of comprehensive vocabulary programs in primary, elementary, middle, and high school classrooms.

Use this book’s four-part vocabulary curriculum to provide your students with rich and varied language experiences, to teach individual words and word-learning strategies, and to foster word consciousness.

Practical strategies to identify learner errors, provide feedback, and recognize problem areas.

To know a word means to know a great deal about it - including its meaning, collocations, grammatical features, derivations, register, and appropriateness. This book helps teachers address all the layers of word knowledge.

The Teacher's Grammar of English - A Course Book and Reference Guide

This book is a comprehensive resource text designed to help English language teachers and teachers-in-training develop their understanding of English grammar. In addition to complete, up-to-date coverage on form, meaning, and usage, each chapter includes practical suggestions for teaching. A unique section at the end of every chapter analyzes common errors made by learners from different language backgrounds - paperback.

This hands-on resource for teachers of English in Asia is written with an easy-to-read style, this book is full of ideas and suggestions for both new and experienced teachers.

Key Features

• An introduction to the theory of and practical applications of child-centered learning
• Step-by-step point on selecting, adapting and setting up communicative activities
• Advice and suggestions on classroom organization and lesson planning
• Activity Bank of 100 games and activities

Adding English: A Guide to Teaching in Multilingual Classrooms is a comprehensive source of ideas of advice for enhancing the learning of all students in all subject areas and at all grade levels.

• plan assessment and evaluation activities that take into account the needs of second language learners
• ensures that new comers feel welcome and supported in your multilangual school and classroom
• helps you understand the challenges by those whoa re adding Enlgish to their repetoire of languages

• Deals clearly and concisely with problem areas commonly encountered by teachers of ESOL*, e.g. tense recognition and usage, conditionals, auxiliary verbs, relative clauses, etc.
• Includes many Teaching Notes with practical suggestions, plus a section on error analysis and correction demonstrating use of board drawings and pair work.
• Many novel features such as uncompromisingly clear layout, sentence branching, diagrams and comprehensive tables. Many of the tables are ground-breaking in their boldness and lucidity.
• Extremely helpful for trainees, the teacher trainer and the practising teacher. Includes inductive tasks, answer key and index.
• Well suited as distance learning of self-access material.
• Contains over 30 extracts from popular coursebooks and resource books to illustrate how grammar is taught communicatively and to aid in materials familiarisation.
  

Works great with intermediate—high-intermediate students, too!

Each unit contains exercises that provide speaking interaction about a central topic or idea. In most of these activities, students must work together in pairs or small groups to reach a conclusion about a topic. Contemporary political and social topics enable students to engage in lively dialogue about issues they face in their daily lives, such as smoking regulation, the environment, and multiculturalism. There is ample background material in the text to prepare students in advance for a discussion. Thus students can spend their class time speaking about and discussing topics rather than reading about them. A unique and important feature of this text is the inclusion of homework exercises that call on students to sort out their ideas and opinions before coming to class. This allows students to be prepared for the speaking activities in class and is of special importance to less confident speakers.

The How to...series offers practical teaching ideas within a clear, theoretical framework. Each title includes a photocopiable 'Task File' of training and reflection activities to reinforce the theories and practical ideas presented. Series editor Jeremy Harmer.

• Covers key areas such as course preparation, materials and creation, and exploiting essential teaching techniques for different business contexts.
• Gives special emphasis to intercultural training and electronic learning.
• Sample lessons and activities throughout the book for teachers to use immediately in their teaching practice.

A dictionary of problem points in the English language as encountered by learners and their teachers. Common problems are solved with practical, clear information in over 600 entries.