How-To Guide for Teaching English Language Learners In the Primary Classroom

Name: How-To Guide for Teaching English Language Learners In the Primary Classroom
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ISBN: 9780325007007

ISBN-10: 0325007004

ISBN-13: 9780325007007

Edition: 2005

Authors: Pat Barrett Dragan, Pat Barrett Dragan

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Written by a practicing classroom teacher and full of the important details that only a teacher's eye can spot, A How-to Guide for Teaching English Language Learners focuses on the day-to-day challenges of working with ELLs and shares the joy and professional satisfaction of watching, nudging, and celebrating as children make a new language their own. Pat Barrett Dragan takes you through the first twenty days of school, showing you exactly how to get nonnative speakers in grades K-3 started on language acquisition. Then she takes you through the rest of the school year, demonstrating how to build an inclusive classroom community that encourages and supports the efforts of language learners…

Book details

List price: $43.15
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 9/13/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.00" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Pat Barrett Dragan is the author of four Heinemann books: Kids, Cameras, and the Curriculum (2008), A How-To Guide for Teaching English Language Learners (2005), Everything You Need to Know to Teach First Grade (2003), and Literacy from Day One (2001). She is also the coauthor and illustrator for five published books for children. Pat has been a first-grade teacher in South San Francisco for more than thirty years. In 2005, she was honored for her teaching with Alpha Delta Kappa's International Excellence in Education Award.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Looking Through the Eyes of Second Language Learners



Structuring the Classroom Environment to Propel English Learners Toward Success



Demystifying Second Language Acquisition



Getting Started Teaching ELLs-A Look at the First Twenty Days of School



Exciting Ways to Get Children Talking



Facilitating Oral Language Acquisition Through Poetry and Music



Using Shared Reading and Picture Books to Help Children Acquire Language and Learn to Read



Enriching Language Learning Through Language Arts and Visual Arts Connections



Thematic Teaching: Making Connections



Writing and Publishing with English Language Learners



Putting It All Together with Puppetry, Masks, and Drama



Connecting with Families


Appendix


"I Like" Self-Portrait Template


Interview Grid


Thought Balloon


Celebration Banners


"Who Took the Cookie from the Cookie Jar?" Booklet Template


Hundreds Day Kites


Kite Pattern


Artistic License


Scene or Museum Boxes


Poetry Frame


Mandala


"I Was Born to" Booklet Template


K-W-L Chart


Web Template 1


Web Template 2


Leaf Prints


Eight-Page Booklets


Eight-Page Pop-Up Books


Simple Hand Puppets


Cup Theater or Habitat with Puppets


Mask Template


Masks


Resources and References


Index