Overview

Aimed at 6-12 grade content area instructors that work with ELLs, this book emphasizes the importance of developing and enhancing teachers’ abilities to work with linguistically and culturally diverse students using their districts’ adopted text materials.   Adapting Content to Empower English-Language-Learning Students (ACEES) is designed to provide a resource for professional development to assist secondary teachers in meeting achievement standards for teaching English Language Learner (ELL) students. There remains a stark mismatch between adequate professional development to help teachers work with ELLs and what is actually delivered. With added pressures on teachers to ensure that standardized test strategies are covered, emanating from the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, teachers need to reach out to ELL students who have achieved varying degrees of English language proficiency. This book emphasizes the importance of developing and enhancing all subject area teachers’ abilities to work with linguistically and culturally diverse students, using their districts’ adopted text materials. To facilitate instructional approaches that intend to foster success for ELL students, the ACEES text was specifically designed for secondary content-area instructors. ACEES focuses on principles of effective practice and resource material analysis, equitable assessment of ELLs, second language acquisition, reading, writing and literacy, specific accommodations in math, science and social studies, instructional technology and cross-cultural dimensions.   The book was written to provide a resource for both instructors and teacher-trainers in developing best practice instructional approaches to teach ELL students at the secondary level.      

Full Product Details

Author:   Margaret A. Rohan ,  Margaret A Rohan
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 27.60cm
Weight:   0.467kg
ISBN:  

9780135095867

ISBN 10:   0135095867
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   18 January 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Table of Contents   Acknowledgements                     Foreword                    Preface                  Chapter 1   Creating an Environment for Success                  Applying the Three Principles          Increase Comprehensibility              Increase Interaction               Increase Higher Order Thinking Skills                  SDAIE        CALLA      Stages of L2 Development                 The SIOP Model             Sheltered Instruction    Analyzing Classroom Text Materials                    Sample Lesson Plan Unit                    Suggested Assignment                        Chapter 2   Equitable Assessment of ELL Student Performance                  Assessment Accommodations for ELLs: Implications for Policy-Based Empirical Research     The “Right” English       Assessment Strategies, Tools and Techniques  Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)      Developing Questioning Strategies  How to Modify a Multiple Choice Test                   Modifying Fill-in-the-Blank               Modifications At-a-Glance               Examples of How Tests Can Be Culturally Biased                      Alternative Assessments                  Alternative Assessment Instruments                    Self-Evaluations            Rubrics    Bloom’s Taxonomy - Levels of Thinking Skills   Experiential Activities   Portfolios         Chapter 3   Second Language Acquisition          Test Your Knowledge   Language Principles      Krahsen’s Hypotheses  Another Look at L2 Stages of Development          Social Language (BICS) vs. Academic Language (CALP)           Cummins’ Quadrants   Instructional Scaffolding                    Corpus Linguistics       Influences from the Native Language: Phonology, Syntax & Morphology   Grammatical Interferences                 Chapter 4   ELL Students' Reading andLiteracy Development     Challenges for ELLs in Reading       Adaptations in Content Area Reading                Six Key Elements of Vocabulary Interaction        Directed Reading Thinking Activities                    Reading Graphic Organizers            Adolescent Literacy & ELLs               Five Key Learning Habits                    Tapestry   ABC’s of a Topic            Word Bingo                      Chapter 5   ELL Students' Writing, Listening, and Speaking English            Writing Workshop      Discussion of Sample Student Writings               Writing Graphic Organizers             ""My First Sea Vouge""     Developing Listening Activities        Developing Speaking Activities        Examples of Information Gap Activities               Jigsaw Activities               Chapter 6   Math, Science & Social Studies: Challenges & Adaptations for ELLs    Descriptions of Content Area Activities               Total Recall                     True or False                 Judgment  Opinion/Proof              Wrong Word                   Jeopardy    Student Developed Tests                   Group Studying for a Test                 Team Spelling Test       Interview   Making Sense                 Cubing     Student Glossary          Challenges for ELLs in Mathematics                     Adaptations in Math     Communication & Literacy in Math Sample Lesson – Algebra                Math Graphic Organizers                  Challenges for ELLs in Science         Adaptations in Science                      Teaching Science to ELLs                 Sample Lesson – Biology                Science Graphic Organizers            Challenges for ELLs in Social Studies                   Adaptations in Social Studies          Making Social Studies Meaningful to ELLs            Sample Lesson – World History     Social Studies Graphic Organizers     Chapter 7   Peer and Cooperative Learning       Managing Cooperative Learning Group Work     Group Member Assignments           Four Types of Pair/Group Work for Content Classrooms        Things to Remember When Using Pair Group Work                  Group Work Evaluation Form            Pass the Poster Activity                     Text Quests                    Give One, Get One Activity                Academic Vocabulary Poster            What’s the Script? Activity                 Graphic Organizers         Chapter 8   Technology, Multi-literacy Interaction & ELL Students            Websites to Visit           English Language Learning Software Programs  Digital Storytelling        Pod Casting                    Integrating Technology with Content                     Optimal Learning Conditions                Chapter 9   Cross-cultural Dimensions               Valuing Cultural Diversity                 What Does Multicultural Education Look Like?     Thoughts of James Banks                  Common Vocabulary   Stereotyping                    Elements of Surface & Deep Culture Cultural Groups A la Carte Individualist vs. Collectivist Perspectives               Multiple Perspectives Activity             ""Fibs"" or True Stories     My Place on the Line Activity              Cultural Vignette Activity                    A Placeat the Table            Chapter 10   Parent/Teacher Communication & Final Thoughts                    A Mother’s Letter            Parental Communication                    Students with Abilities   Collaboration    Works         Providing for Newcomers                   Final Thoughts               Passion & Persistence     Glossary                    Appendix A – Acronyms               Appendix B – Schedule of Balanced Instruction                     Appendix C – Documentation of ELL Strategies                   Appendix D - List of Cognates (English – Spanish)              Appendix E - Legal Foundations    Index        "

Reviews

[With] innovative lesson plans, the compilation of effective teaching strategies, and the emphasis on their flexible use in all subject areas... this book is about making teachers more effective through awareness and teacher/student reflection [that] is much needed in today's classrooms. ~ Donna C. Horton, Hillcrest Middle School This textbook is very unique and very well designed to assist teachers in many disciplines with addressing the various challenges of teaching ELL students. ~ Dr. Karen Mae Lafferty, Morehead State University

[With] innovative lesson plans, the compilation of effective teaching strategies, and the emphasis on their flexible use in all subject areas! this book is about making teachers more effective through awareness and teacher/student reflection [that] is much needed in today's classrooms. ~ Donna C. Horton, Hillcrest Middle School This textbook is very unique and very well designed to assist teachers in many disciplines with addressing the various challenges of teaching ELL students. ~ Dr. Karen Mae Lafferty, Morehead State University

[With] innovative lesson plans, the compilation of effective teaching strategies, and the emphasis on their flexible use in all subject areas... this book is about making teachers more effective through awareness and teacher/student reflection [that] is much needed in today's classrooms. ~ Donna C. Horton, Hillcrest Middle School This textbook is very unique and very well designed to assist teachers in many disciplines with addressing the various challenges of teaching ELL students. ~ Dr. Karen Mae Lafferty, Morehead State University

Author Information

&>Margaret A. Rohan has worked as a public school educator with under-represented student populations, including dropout prevention, Title I, Migrant and ELL programs, for 22 years, earning a doctoral degree in Educational Leadership in 2006. She has taught Multicultural Education courses at Florida Atlantic University, Indian River State College and Nova Southeastern University for the past 10 years. Her research concentrates on secondary ELL teachers, students and families in Florida and Georgia. Rohan is currently an ELL Resource instructor, working in Denver with predominantly refugee children from many places on the planet.  She dreams of someday building an off-the-grid home in the back hills of Colorado. To visit Margaret Rohan’s author website, please go to www.ellcontent.com.  Note: You will exit the Pearson website.

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