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eBook details
- Title: Content-Area Conversations
- Author : Douglas Fisher
- Release Date : January 15, 2008
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1156 KB
Description
Teachers across the country are seeking ways to make their multicultural classrooms come alive with student talk about content. Content-Area Conversations: How to Plan Discussion-Based Lessons for Diverse Language Learners is a practical, hands-on guide to creating and managing environments that spur sophisticated levels of student communication, both oral and written. Paying special attention to the needs of English language learners, the authors
* Detail research-based steps for designing lessons that spark student talk;
* Share real-life classroom scenarios and dialogues that bring theory to life;
* Describe easy-to-use assessments for all grade levels;
* Provide rubrics, worksheets, sentence frames, and other imaginative tools that encourage academic communication; and
* Offer guiding questions to help teachers plan instruction.
Teachers at any grade level, in any content area, will find a wide variety of strategies in this book to help students simultaneously learn English and learn in English. Drawing both on decades of research data and on the authors’ real-life experiences as teachers of English language learners, this book is replete with ideas for fostering real academic discourse in your classroom.
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