Language-based approaches to support reading comprehension /
This book contributors offers their different perspectives on supporting English language learners through specific strategies for assessment and instruction. It presents specific issues and challenges, supportive research and up-to-date information, classroom implications and strategies, and case s...
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Lanham, Maryland :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- The Challenges for Literacy Development Across Disciplines
- Overview of the text / Francine Falk-Ross
- The educational issues before us / Francine Falk-Ross
- A case study to consider using different frames of reference / Francine Falk-Ross
- Language as a Scaffold for Learning
- The mediating role of pedagogic discourse / Francine Falk-Ross
- Providing supportive contexts for young children's language to develop their ideas and opinions / Shobana Musti-Rao and Lenwood Gibson
- Looking at literacy from the family-school frame of reference / Lee Shumow and Elena Lyutykh
- Mathematics talk : literacy development in a mathematics context / Brian R. Evans
- Literacy and the arts : how artistic perspectives enhance literacy learning / Merryl Goldberg and Laurie Stowell
- Promoting agency, access and acquisition among adolescent English language learners / Kathleen A.J. Mohr, Michelle Flory, and Lois Ann Knezek
- Talk and Textual Considerations
- Multimodality in children's school-based texts / Roberta Linder
- Addressing adolescents' need for voice and interaction / Jill Lewis-Spector and Mary McGriff
- From resistance to engagement : The importance of the digital literacies for struggling readers and writers / Peter McDermott and Kathleen A. Gormley
- Concluding thoughts / Francine Falk-Ross.