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| Preface | p. xiii |
| English Language Learners in School | p. 1 |
| Who Are English Language Learners? | p. 3 |
| How Can I Get to Know My English Language Learners? | p. 4 |
| Getting Basic Information When a New Student Arrives | p. 4 |
| Classroom Activities That Let You Get to Know Your Students | p. 6 |
| How Do Cultural Differences Affect Teaching and Learning? | p. 8 |
| Culture in the Class... MORE | p. 9 |
| Definitions of Culture and Its Content | p. 9 |
| Sociolinguistic Interactions in the Classroom | p. 12 |
| Culturally Related Responses to Classroom Organization | p. 13 |
| Literacy Traditions from Home and Community | p. 14 |
| How Can I Ease Newcomers into the Routines of My Classroom When They Know Little or No English? | p. 15 |
| First Things First: Safety and Security | p. 15 |
| Creating a Sense of Belonging | p. 16 |
| Current Policy Trends Affecting the Education of English Learners | p. 18 |
| Academic Standards and Assessment | p. 18 |
| High-Stakes Testing | p. 19 |
| Education Policy Specific to English Learners | p. 21 |
| What Kinds of Programs Exist to Meet the Needs of English Language Learners? | p. 23 |
| Bilingual Education Programs | p. 24 |
| English Language Instructional Programs | p. 26 |
| English Language Learners in the "General Education" Classroom | p. 27 |
| Quality Indicators to Look for in Programs Serving English Learners | p. 28 |
| Summary | p. 28 |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | p. 30 |
| Activities | p. 31 |
| Second Language Acquisition | p. 33 |
| What Do You Know When You Know a Language? Defining Language Proficiency as Communicative Competence | p. 34 |
| Classroom Example of Language Use in Social Context | p. 35 |
| Literal and Figurative Language | p. 37 |
| Language, Power, Social Standing, and Identity | p. 39 |
| Language as an Instrument and Symbol of Power | p. 40 |
| Language or Dialect? | p. 41 |
| Personal Identity and Ways of Speaking: The Case of Ebonics | p. 43 |
| Languages in the Attic | p. 44 |
| Language Acquisition Theories | p. 45 |
| First Language Acquisition Theories | p. 45 |
| Second Language Acquisition Theories | p. 52 |
| Beyond Social Interaction in Second Language Acquisition Theory | p. 57 |
| Learning a Second Language in School: Processes and Factors | p. 59 |
| Second Language Acquisition Contexts: Formal Study versus Immersion in a Country Where the Language Is Spoken | p. 59 |
| Age and the Interplay of Sociocultural, Cognitive, and Personality Factors | p. 60 |
| Differences in School Expectations of Younger and Older Learners | p. 62 |
| Teacher Expectations for English Learner Achievement | p. 63 |
| Language Used for Social Interaction versus Language Used for Academic Learning | p. 64 |
| Learning to Use English in Socially and Culturally Appropriate Ways | p. 66 |
| Comprehensible Input and Social Interaction | p. 66 |
| What about Language Learning Errors? | p. 68 |
| Summary | p. 70 |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | p. 70 |
| Activities | p. 71 |
| Classroom Practices for English Learner Instruction | p. 73 |
| Standards-Based Instruction and Assessment | p. 76 |
| Sheltered Instruction or Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English (SDAIE) | p. 78 |
| Planning and Organizing Sheltered Instruction or SDAIE | p. 78 |
| Sheltered Instruction or SDAIE: A Science Example | p. 81 |
| Sheltered Instruction or SDAIE: A Literature Example | p. 84 |
| Sheltered Instruction or SDAIE: A Secondary Social Science Example | p. 85 |
| Group Work | p. 86 |
| Organizing Group Work | p. 88 |
| Cooperative Learning Methods | p. 88 |
| Phases of Cooperative Group Development | p. 90 |
| Jigsaw | p. 91 |
| Thematic Instruction | p. 92 |
| Distinguishing Theme Units from Theme Cycles | p. 94 |
| Organizing Thematic Instruction | p. 94 |
| Functional Language and Literacy Uses in Thematic Instruction | p. 97 |
| Creating Variety in Language and Literacy Uses | p. 98 |
| Scaffolding | p. 99 |
| Scaffolding: A Keep Example | p. 100 |
| Scaffolding in First Language Acquisition Research | p. 103 |
| Scaffolding Applied to Second Language Acquisition | p. 104 |
| Scaffolds for First and Second Language Reading and Writing | p. 105 |
| Assessment of English Learners | p. 108 |
| English Learner Assessment: Definition and Purposes | p. 108 |
| Identification and Placement of Students Needing Language Education Support Services | p. 110 |
| Limitations of Standardized Language Proficiency Tests | p. 111 |
| Redesignation to FEP | p. 111 |
| Program Evaluation | p. 111 |
| Assessment of Student Learning and Progress | p. 112 |
| Summary | p. 115 |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | p. 115 |
| Activities | p. 116 |
| Oral Language Development in Second Language Acquisition | p. 118 |
| Oral Language in Perspective | p. 119 |
| Integration of Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing | p. 120 |
| Relationships among Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing | p. 121 |
| Form, Function, and Social Context in Oral Language Use | p. 122 |
| Describing Oral Language Performance of Beginning and Intermediate English Learners | p. 125 |
| Second Language Oral Proficiency of Beginning English Learners | p. 125 |
| Second Language Oral Proficiency of Intermediate English Learners | p. 127 |
| Promoting Oral Language Development in the Classroom | p. 129 |
| Using Games in Second Language Classrooms | p. 130 |
| Songs | p. 131 |
| Drama | p. 132 |
| Dramatizing Poetry | p. 132 |
| Show and Tell | p. 134 |
| One Looks, One Doesn't | p. 134 |
| Tape-Recording Children's Re-Creations of Wordless Book Stories | p. 135 |
| Taping and Dubbing a Television Show | p. 136 |
| Choral Reading | p. 136 |
| Riddles and Jokes | p. 138 |
| Oral Language Development through Content-Area Instruction | p. 138 |
| Oral English Development and Use in Mathematics | p. 138 |
| Oral English Development and Use in Science | p. 140 |
| Oral English Development and Use in Social Studies | p. 141 |
| Classroom Assessment of English Learners' Oral Language Development | p. 142 |
| The Student Oral Language Observation Matrix (SOLOM) | p. 143 |
| Checklists and Anecdotal Observations | p. 148 |
| Summary | p. 152 |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | p. 153 |
| Activities | p. 154 |
| Emergent Literacy: English Learners Beginning to Write and Read | p. 156 |
| What Does Research Tell Us about the Early Literacy Development of English Learners? | p. 158 |
| Contrasting the Emergent Literacy and Reading Readiness Perspectives | p. 160 |
| Reading Readiness Perspective | p. 161 |
| Emergent Literacy Perspective | p. 162 |
| Differences between Oral and Written Language Development | p. 164 |
| Highlighting Literacy Functions in Your Classroom | p. 165 |
| Exploring the Visual Form of Written Language | p. 166 |
| Development of Alphabetic Writing: Connecting Symbols and Sounds | p. 167 |
| Print Concepts That Emerge in Emergent Literacy | p. 170 |
| Invented or Temporary Spelling: Children Working Out Sound/Symbol Correspondences | p. 173 |
| Emergent Literacy in English as a Non-native Language | p. 175 |
| Home and School Environments That Nurture Emergent Literacy | p. 176 |
| How Do Home Environments Promote Early Literacy? | p. 177 |
| Family Literacy Programs | p. 179 |
| Promoting Parent Involvement in English Learners' Schooling | p. 180 |
| Classroom Strategies to Promote Early Literacy | p. 182 |
| Early Literacy Goals | p. 182 |
| Creating a Literacy-Rich Classroom Environment | p. 183 |
| Books, Books, Books | p. 183 |
| Using Daily Routines to Highlight the Forms and Functions of Print | p. 184 |
| Reading Aloud to Students | p. 186 |
| Shared Writing and Reading through the Language Experience Approach | p. 188 |
| Dialogue Journals | p. 188 |
| Alphabet Books | p. 189 |
| Helping Children Recognize and Spell Words Independently | p. 190 |
| Using Big Books to Teach Sight Words and Phonics | p. 190 |
| Increasing Students' Sight Word Vocabulary | p. 191 |
| Phonics | p. 191 |
| Word Families | p. 192 |
| Invented or Temporary Spelling and Word Recognition | p. 194 |
| Developmental Levels in Student Spelling | p. 194 |
| Summary of Early Literacy Instructional Strategies | p. 199 |
| Evaluating Emergent Literacy Development | p. 199 |
| Summary | p. 201 |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | p. 203 |
| Activities | p. 204 |
| English Learners and Process Writing | p. 206 |
| Research on Second Language Writing | p. 208 |
| What Is Process Writing? | p. 210 |
| Experiencing Process Writing: "I Remember" | p. 211 |
| Students' Responses to "I Remember" | p. 212 |
| How Process Writing Helps English Learners | p. 214 |
| Collaborative Contexts for Process Writing | p. 215 |
| Response Groups | p. 215 |
| Peer Editing Groups | p. 220 |
| Publishing Student Writing | p. 221 |
| Developmental Phases in Second Language Writing | p. 223 |
| Description of Beginning Writers | p. 224 |
| Strategies to Assist Beginning Writers | p. 226 |
| Oral Discussion | p. 227 |
| Partner Stories Using Pictures and Wordless Books | p. 227 |
| Concept Books: Creating a Teaching Library | p. 228 |
| Peek-A-Boo Books for Younger Students and Riddle Books for Older Students | p. 228 |
| Pattern Poems | p. 229 |
| From Personal Journals to Dialogue Journals to Buddy Journals | p. 230 |
| Improvisational Sign Language | p. 232 |
| Life Murals | p. 234 |
| Clustering | p. 234 |
| Freewriting | p. 235 |
| Description of Intermediate Writers | p. 236 |
| Strategies for Intermediate Writers | p. 239 |
| Show and Not Tell | p. 239 |
| Sentence Combining | p. 240 |
| Sentence Shortening | p. 242 |
| Sentence Models | p. 242 |
| Mapping | p. 244 |
| A Word about Writing with Computers | p. 247 |
| Assessing English Learners' Writing Progress | p. 248 |
| Portfolio Assessment | p. 249 |
| Holistic Scoring | p. 252 |
| Working with Errors in Student Writing | p. 257 |
| Balancing Goals: Fluency, Form, Correctness | p. 257 |
| Balancing Instruction: Scaffolds, Models, and Direct Instruction | p. 258 |
| Summary | p. 260 |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | p. 261 |
| Activities | p. 262 |
| Reading and Literature Instruction for English Language Learners | p. 264 |
| What Does Research Tell Us about Reading in a Second Language? | p. 266 |
| Second Language Readers | p. 267 |
| English Language Learners and Background Knowledge | p. 267 |
| Reading Processes of Proficient Readers | p. 268 |
| Elements of Reading Comprehension and Metacognition: A Cartoon Example | p. 270 |
| Background Knowledge and Inferences | p. 271 |
| Decoding and Vocabulary | p. 271 |
| Metacognition: "Thinking about Thinking" | p. 272 |
| Text Structure | p. 272 |
| Working in Literature Response Groups | p. 273 |
| Steps That Prepare Students to Work in Response Groups | p. 274 |
| How Response to Literature Assists English Language Learners | p. 276 |
| Extensive Reading: The Foundation of Every Reading Program | p. 276 |
| Developmental Phases in Second Language Reading | p. 277 |
| Beginning Readers: Characteristics and Strategies | p. 278 |
| Language-Experience Approach | p. 278 |
| Providing Quality Literature for Beginners | p. 281 |
| Pattern Books | p. 282 |
| Illustrating Stories and Poems | p. 284 |
| Shared Reading with Big Books | p. 284 |
| Directed Listening-Thinking Activity (DL-TA) | p. 285 |
| Readers' Theater | p. 287 |
| Story Mapping | p. 288 |
| Intermediate Readers: Characteristics and Strategies | p. 291 |
| Cognitive Mapping | p. 291 |
| Directed Reading-Thinking Activity (DR-TA) | p. 292 |
| Literature Response Journals | p. 295 |
| Developing Scripts for Readers' Theater | p. 297 |
| Adapting Stories into Plays and Scripts for Film and Videotape | p. 297 |
| Using Computers and CD-ROMs to Enhance Learning | p. 298 |
| Assessing Second Language Readers' Progress | p. 298 |
| Assessing with Materials Students Bring to Class | p. 299 |
| Informal Assessment | p. 299 |
| Miscue Analysis | p. 299 |
| Informal Reading Inventories | p. 306 |
| Running Records | p. 307 |
| Student Self-Assessment | p. 307 |
| Summary | p. 309 |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | p. 311 |
| Activities | p. 313 |
| Content Reading and Writing: Prereading and During Reading | p. 314 |
| What Does Research Tell Us about Reading and Writing across the Curriculum for English Language Learners? | p. 318 |
| Background Information on Students' Interactions with Texts | p. 319 |
| Aesthetic and Efferent Interactions with Texts | p. 319 |
| Effects of Text Structure on Comprehension and Memory | p. 320 |
| Literary Structure | p. 325 |
| Metacognition and Learning from Text | p. 326 |
| Matching Students and Texts | p. 326 |
| Evaluating Students' Interaction with Text Using the Group Reading Inventory (GRI) | p. 327 |
| Strategies to Promote Reading Comprehension | p. 330 |
| Prereading Strategies: Developing Motivation, Purpose, and Background Knowledge | p. 331 |
| Teacher Talk: Making Purposes Clear | p. 332 |
| Field Trips and Films | p. 332 |
| Simulation Games | p. 333 |
| Experiments | p. 334 |
| Developing Vocabulary before Students Read a Text | p. 334 |
| Structured Overviews | p. 335 |
| Preview Guides | p. 336 |
| Anticipation Guides | p. 336 |
| During-Reading Strategies: Monitoring Comprehension | p. 337 |
| Using Headings and Subheadings | p. 338 |
| Directed Reading-Thinking Activity (DR-TA) | p. 338 |
| Vocabulary Strategies during Reading | p. 339 |
| Using Clustering to Develop Vocabulary in Context | p. 340 |
| Jigsaw Procedure | p. 341 |
| Learning Logs | p. 342 |
| Summary | p. 343 |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | p. 344 |
| Activities | p. 345 |
| Content Reading and Writing: Postreading Strategies for Organizing and Remembering | p. 346 |
| Postreading Strategies for Students | p. 347 |
| Semantic Feature Analysis for Vocabulary Development after Reading | p. 347 |
| Rehearsing to Organize and Remember Information | p. 349 |
| Venn Diagrams | p. 350 |
| Mapping | p. 350 |
| Writing as a Learning Tool across the Curriculum | p. 353 |
| Journals and Learning Logs | p. 353 |
| Developing Topics and Student Self-Selection of Topics in Content Areas | p. 355 |
| Photo Essays: Combining Direct Experience, the Visual Mode, and Writing | p. 356 |
| Written and Oral Collaborative Research Projects | p. 358 |
| K-W-L, a Strategy that Fosters Thinking before, during, and after Reading | p. 360 |
| Theme Studies: Providing a Meaningful Learning Context | p. 361 |
| Introducing the Topic and Choosing Study Questions | p. 362 |
| Organizing Instruction | p. 364 |
| Instructional Modifications for English Learners | p. 366 |
| Assessment | p. 368 |
| Portfolio Assessment | p. 369 |
| Using Multiple Measures for Assessment | p. 372 |
| Summary | p. 372 |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | p. 373 |
| Activities | p. 374 |
| Reading Assessment and Instruction | p. 376 |
| Theoretical Approach to Literacy Assessment | p. 378 |
| Language Proficiency: Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing | p. 378 |
| Looking Closely at the Reading Process in English | p. 381 |
| Resources That Non-Native English Speakers Bring to English Reading | p. 385 |
| Assessing Reading Using an Informal Reading Inventory | p. 388 |
| Using IRIs to Systematically Assess Students' Status and Progress | p. 389 |
| Reading Levels Can Be Established Using Informal Reading Inventories | p. 390 |
| Procedures for Determining Independent, Instructional, and Frustration Levels | p. 390 |
| Sample Informal Reading Inventory | p. 392 |
| A List of Commercial Informal Reading Inventories | p. 400 |
| Other Procedures for Evaluating and Helping Readers | p. 401 |
| Linking Assessment and Instruction | p. 401 |
| Echo Reading | p. 402 |
| Guided Reading | p. 402 |
| ReQuest Procedure | p. 406 |
| Silent Sustained Reading | p. 408 |
| Read Alouds | p. 408 |
| Summary | p. 409 |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | p. 409 |
| Activities | p. 410 |
| References | p. 412 |
| Author Index | p. 433 |
| Subject Index | p. 439 |
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