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KEY BENEFIT: This uniqueDVD included in the back of the text illustrates select strategies being used in a classroom dominated by English learners. After the demonstration lesson, one of the authors interviews the teacher for insights into how the lesson was planned and the teacher's reasons for choosing the strategy. The strategies include planning approaches, strategies for improving student involvement, vocabulary knowledge, and comprehension.

KEY TOPICS: visual scaffolding, language focus, lessons, cooperative learning, modeled talk, writing workshop

MARKET: ESL Methods, Reading Methods

Adrienne Herrell is a visiting professor at Florida State University. She taught classes in early literacy, assessment, and strategies for teaching English language learners at California State University, Fresno until her retirement in 2004. Fifty Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners, Fourth Edition, is Dr. Herrell’s fifteenth book for Merrill/Prentice Hall. Her previous books include Camcorder in the Classroom with Joel Fowler; Fifty Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners; Reflective Planning, Teaching, and Evaluation: K—12 with Judy Eby and Michael Jordan; and Fifty Active Learning Strategies for Improving Vocabulary, Fluency, and Comprehension with Michael Jordan. Dr. Herrell’s writing and research are built on her experiences teaching in Florida’s public schools for 23 years. She and co-author Dr. Jordan are engaged in research in public schools in California, Florida, and Alaska to validate the effectiveness of the strategies described in this text.

Michael Jordan–recently retired from California State University, Fresno–has taught primary grades through high school in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and California. Dr. Jordan is an actor, education director, and former B-52 pilot. He and Dr. Herrell incorporate many dramatic reenactment strategies in their joint research working with vocabulary and comprehension development in children learning English in public schools. Fifty Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners, Fourth Edition, is Dr. Jordan’s eighth book for Merrill/Prentice Hall. His previous books include Fifty Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners; Reflective Planning, Teaching, and Evaluation: K—12 with Judy Eby and Adrienne Herrell; and Fifty Active Learning Strategies for Improving Vocabulary, Fluency, and Comprehension, and 35 Classroom Management Strategies: Promoting Learning and Building Community with Adrienne Herrell. He has published several articles on interactive script writing and vocabulary development to enhance reading comprehension for children.

Drs. Herrell and Jordan serve as educational consultants to a number of school districts across the nation and have presented widely on the subject of reading and comprehension at national and international conferences.

1. Predictable Routines and Signals

2. Visual Scaffolding

3. Realia Strategies

4. Language Focus Lessons

5. Leveled Questions

6. Manipulative Strategies

7. Cooperative Learning

8. Modeled Talk

9. Vocabulary Role-Play

10. Writing Workshop

11. Interactive Writing

12. GIST (Generating interaction between schema and text)

13. Syntax Surgery

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