Understanding Language
eBook - ePub

Understanding Language

Supporting ELL Students in Responsive ELA Classrooms

  1. 159 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Understanding Language

Supporting ELL Students in Responsive ELA Classrooms

About this book

Engaging with critical questions such as What counts as language? and How can I know when a student is struggling with language?, Melinda J. McBee Orzulak explores how mainstream ELA teachers might begin to understand language in new ways to benefit both English language learner and non-ELL students learning in the same classroom.

Offering supportive teaching resources and ways to notice and understand the strengths of ELL students, McBee Orzulak outlines strategies for respectful and rigorous instruction for all students as we consider our own cultural and linguistic expectations. She also addresses responses to common curricular challenges such as: 

  • Structuring positive environments for students as both learners and adolescents
  • Providing a language focus in our teaching
  • Assessing the range of literacies our ELL students possess
To meet the needs of in-service and preservice teachers, unique features of the book include Key Understandings and Getting Started questions with each chapter, key practices linked to classroom vignettes, sample assignments, and lists of next steps and resources. Understanding Language provides a series of entry points into the NCTE Position Paper on the Role of English Teachers in Educating English Language Learners (ELLs), focusing in particular on knowing and teaching all of our students—monolingual, bilingual, and multilingual—both language and content.

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Table of contents

  1. COVER
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. COPYRIGHT
  4. CONTENTS
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. NCTE Position Paper on the Role of English Teachers in Educating English Language Learners (ELLs)
  7. Statement of Terminology and Glossary
  8. Introducing the Principles
  9. Chapter 1 Recognizing Strengths
  10. Chapter 2 Respect and Rigor in the Responsive Classroom
  11. Classroom Vignettes
  12. Chapter 3 Structuring Responsive Learning Spaces in ELA Classrooms
  13. Chapter 4 Understanding Language as a Resource for Academic and Social Contexts
  14. Chapter 5 Supporting Respectful and Rigorous Reading Opportunities
  15. Chapter 6 Assessing Teaching and Learning with ELL Students
  16. Chapter 7 Finding Resources and Collaborating with Others
  17. Annotated Bibliography
  18. References
  19. Index
  20. Author