Show, tell, build : twenty key instructional tools and techniques for educating English learners / Joyce W. Nutta, Carine Strebel, Florin M. Mihai, Edwidge Crevecoeur Bryant, Kouider Mokhtari.

Building upon the theoretical and practical foundation outlined in their previous book, Educating English Learners, the authors show classroom teachers how to develop a repertoire of instructional techniques that address K-12 English learners (ELs) at different English proficiency and grade levels,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nutta, Joyce W. (Author), Strebel, Carine (Author), Mihai, Florin (Author), Crevecoeur-Bryant, Edwidge (Author), Mokhtari, Kouider (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard Education Press, [2018]
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Table of Contents:
  • The academic subjects protocol:
  • Show and tell tools and techniques
  • Graphic organizers for academic subjects
  • Infographics, diagrams, and animations
  • Models, manipulatives, and realia
  • Gestures, dramatization, and total physical response
  • Teacher talk
  • Leveled questioning
  • Cooperative learning and academic discussions
  • Leveled text
  • Modified text
  • Sentence starters, sentence frames, and word banks
  • The language arts protocol:
  • Build tools and techniques
  • Building comprehension at word, sentence, and discourse levels
  • Instructional conversations
  • Learning new language through songs and poems
  • El spoken error treatment
  • Exploring the meaning, form, and relationships of words
  • Grammatically unpacking sentences
  • Understanding text structures with graphic organizers
  • Grammar, spelling, and vocabulary mini-lessons
  • Responding to sentence-level writing errors
  • Planning writing with graphic organizers
  • Conclusion tools and techniques in practice
  • Appendix a the language demands posed by academic standards
  • Appendix b assessment of english proficiency.