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If your classroom has English Language Learners (ELLs), and whose doesnt, youve probably wondered whether the literacy methods youve used successfully with English speakers can work for nonnative speakers. Yes, they do, and in Balanced Literacy for English Language Learners, K-2, youll find out why they work and what adaptations you need to make to ensure that ELLs fully develop their reading and writing abilities. Linda Chen and Eugenia Mora-Flores examine how to lead ELLs toward independence through basic frameworks and techniques you know and may already teach with. Their integrated, comprehensive approach focuses on seven specific aspects of balanced instruction that help students learn, expand, and extend their literacy skills, including: interactive read-aloud emergent story book read-aloud shared reading reading workshop writing workshop guided reading word work Through transcripts, lesson ideas, and vivid classroom descriptions Chen and Mora-Flores show you how to plan for and adapt your literacy lessons to meet the needs of ELLs as well as what aspects of your existing curriculum may already support them. In addition, they make explicit and accessible the research and literacy and language development theories that make the balanced literacy approach work. Balanced Literacy for English Language Learners, K-2, is thoroughly practical, grounded in the latest research and theory, applicable in all Englishbased classroom settings, and full of great ideas for veteran, novice, and preservice teachers. With emphases on scaffolding learning across the day and the use of specific, familiar instructional strategies, it offers best practice strategies for helping little children take big steps into a new language.

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Linda Chen is currently a consultant who partners with clients in the areas of instructional leadership development, professional learning and curricular reform strategy. As a systems leader driven by equity and excellence at scale, she has worked extensively in a variety of urban district leadership roles, including chief academic officer in Baltimore City, deputy chief academic officer in Boston, assistant superintendent of schools in Philadelphia, and literacy supervisor in New York City. Linda is coauthor of Balanced Literacy for English Language Learners, K-2 (Heinemann, 2006), was a staff developer at Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, worked as a literacy consultant nationally and internationally, and prepared teachers in the instruction of English language learners as adjunct faculty at the University of Southern California's. She was a principal of a dual language school in New York City and a teacher in NYC and Seattle. Linda holds Ed.D., M.Ed., M.A degrees from Teachers College Columbia University, and a B.S. degree from the University of Washington. A former teacher and literacy coach at the elementary and middle levels, Eugenia Mora-Flores is an assistant professor at the University of Southern California, where she teaches courses in language and literacy development. She also consults on the topic of language and literacy development for English learners at elementary schools in the Los Angeles area.

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