Awards
- Short-listed for Bluebonnet Awards 2002
Overview
Fresh from the country, Juanito is bewildered by his new school. Everything he does feels upside down: he eats lunch when it's recess and goes to play when it's time for lunch, and his tongue feels like a rock when he tries to speak English. But a sensitive teacher and his family help him find his voice through poetry, art and music.
Full Product Details
Author: Deborah J Short (Center for Applied Linguistics Washington D C) ,
Josefina Villamil Tinajero, PhD (both of The University of Texas El Paso) ,
Alfredo Schifini ,
Alfredo Schifini
Publisher: Children's Book Press,U.S.
Imprint: Children's Book Press,U.S.
Dimensions:
Width: 21.70cm
, Height: 1.20cm
, Length: 25.60cm
Weight: 0.386kg
ISBN: 9780892391622
ISBN 10: 0892391626
Pages: 31
Publication Date: 18 January 2000
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Children / Juvenile
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product
Availability: Out of stock
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Language: English & Spanish
Author Information
Dr. Short directs Academic Language Research & Training and provides professional development on academic literacy, content-based ESL, and sheltered instruction worldwide. At the Center for Applied Linguistics, she co-developed the research-validated SIOP Model. She has directed research and program evaluations on English learners for the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Rockefeller Foundation, U.S. Department of Education, and U.S. Department of Justice, among others. Publications include ESL textbooks for National Geographic Learning/Cengage, professional journal articles, and SIOP Model books. She taught English as a new language in New York, California, Virginia, and the DR Congo. She recently served on TESOL s Board of Directors. Dr. Short's monographs include: Extend Your Students Reach and Move Them Toward Independence, Base Your ESL Instruction in the Content Areas, Reach for the Common Core, Structural Supports for English Learners, Comprehensive and Responsive Assessment, and Developing Academic Literacy in Adolescents, Differentiate Instruction. Dr. Tinajero specializes in staff development and school-university partnership programs and has consulted with school districts in the U.S. to design ESL, bilingual, literacy, and bi-literacy programs. She has served on state and national advisory committees for standards development, including the English as a New Language Advisory Panel of the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards and the Texas Reading Academies. She is currently professor of Education and Interim Dean of the College of Education at the University of Texas at El Paso and was President of the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1997-2000. Dr. Tinajero's monograph is titled Teaching the Fundamentals. Dr. Schifini assists schools across the nation and around the world in developing comprehensive language and literacy programs for English learners. He has worked as an ESL teacher, reading specialist, school administrator and university professor. Through an arrangement with California State Polytechnic University at Pomona, Dr. Schifini currently serves as program consultant to two large teacher-training efforts in the area of reading for second language speakers of English. His research interests include early literacy and language development and the integration of language and content-area instruction.
