Academic language/literacy strategies for adolescents : a "how to" manual for educators /

Fast-paced, practical, and innovative, this text for pre-service and in-service teachers features clear, easily accessible lessons and professional development activities to improve the delivery of academic language/literacy education across the content areas in junior/middle school and high school...

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Other Authors: Hirai, Debra L. Cook (Debra Lee Cook)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • Background
  • Motivation
  • Attributes of academic language
  • Vocabulary: theory and practice
  • Reading skills development
  • Grammar and writing
  • Summing up
  • Expressive and receptive language strategies and model lesson plan format
  • Sample lesson plan including expressive and receptive language prompts
  • Sample lesson plans without expressive and receptive language prompts
  • Sample writing rubric
  • List of useful web sites for math and science
  • Common cognates
  • Grammar handbook.