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The ESL/ELL Teacher's Survival Guide: Ready-to-Use Strategies, Tools, and Activities for Teaching English Language Learners of All Levels, 2nd Edition offers readers a comprehensive range of instructional strategies and educational resources for teaching English. The newly revised 2nd Edition includes brand new chapters on:
• Working with Long-Term English Language Learners
• Teaching English internationally
• Teaching Elementary Age ELLs
• Teaching Adult ELLs
• Teaching ELLs with learning challenges
• Culturally Responsive Instruction
• Effective online instruction
• Working with co-teachers and para-professionals
In addition to the new chapters, The ESL/ELL Teacher's Survival Guide contains updated material on topics including math, science, social studies, Common Core Standards, the Next Generation Science Standards and 150 pages of new, highly engaging content. An essential resource for anyone involved in teaching English as a Second Language to students of all ages, this book is perfect for general education teachers and ESL specialists for students in grades six through twelve. It’s also highly instructive for teachers of adult ESL classes, elementary and teacher educators, and resource specialists.
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
About the Contributors
Introduction
PART ONE: Getting Started with English Language Learners
1. ELL Instruction: The Big Picture
ELL Population Growth
How Are English Language Learner Described?
Adolescent English Language Learners
A Primer on ELL Research
A Quick Tour of ELL Practices
2. ELL Classroom Basics: Building a Positive and Effective Learning Environment
The First R: Building Relationships
The Second R: Resources in the ELL Classroom
The Third R: Establishing Routines
PART TWO: Teaching Beginning English Language Learners
3. Key Elements of a Curriculum for Beginning ELLs
Key Elements of a Curriculum
4. Daily Instruction for Beginning ELLs
Picture Word Inductive Model Unit Plan
PART THREE: Teaching Intermediate English Language Learners
5. Key Elements of a Curriculum for Intermediate ELLs
Key Elements of a Curriculum
6. Daily Instruction for Intermediate ELLs
Designing Thematic Genre Units
A Sample Unit: Problem-Solution
Sample Lesson Plans
Using Text to Generate Analytical Writing Lesson Plan
A Sample Week in a Two-Period Intermediate ELL Class
PART FOUR: Teaching English Language Learners in the Content Areas
7. Teaching Language Learners in the Mainstream Classroom
What is the Organizing Cycle?
8. Teaching Social Studies
Building Relationships with Students
9. Teaching Science, by Stephen Fleenor
Introduction: Science and Language
10. Teaching Math, by Cindy Garcia
Introduction
Challenge – Reading Mathematics Texts
Challenge – Knowledge of Appropriate Academic Vocabulary
Challenge – Participating in Mathematics Conversations
Challenge – Understanding Abstract Concepts
PART FIVE: Working with Specific Groups of English Language Learners
11. Supporting Long Term English Language Learners
Who Are Long-Term English Language Learners?
How Can We Best Support LTELLs?
How Did Larry and His School Try to Put These Recommendations Into Action?
12. Working with Elementary ELLs, by Valentina Gonzalez
Who Are Elementary English Learners?
Do Elementary English Learners Have Different Needs? Does Their Instruction Need to be Different from that of Older English Learners?
Program Types in Elementary
The Core Elements of Supportive Instruction for Elementary English Language Learners
What Does a Model Classroom that is Highly Supportive of Elementary English Learners Look Like?
What Does a Model Classroom that is Highly Supportive of Elementary English Learners Sound Like?
What Does a Model Classroom that is Highly Supportive of Elementary English Learners Fell Like?
Instructional Strategies that Support Elementary ELLs
13. Teaching Adult ELLs, by Antoinette Perez
The Differences in Teaching English to Adults Versus Children
How to Foster Success with Adult Learners
14. Teaching ELLs with Learning Differences, by Jessica Bell
Considerations for Further Investigation
Considerations for Determining Services
Considerations for Placement/Scheduling
Resources
PART SIX: Further Strategies to Ensure Success
15. Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Teaching
What is Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Teaching?
The Organizing Cycle
16. Addressing Additional Opportunities and Challenges
Student Motivation
The Advantages of Being Bilingual or Multilingual Lesson Plan
Social Emotional Learning
Textbook Integration
Error Correction
Limited Access to Technology
Multilevel Classes
Co-Teaching and/or Working with an Aide/Paraprofessional
Classroom Management
Book Selection
Supporting ELL Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFEs)
17. Home Language of ELLs, by Tan Huynh
Seeing Home Language as an Asset
A Mini Lesson on the Value of Home Languages
Research on Home Languages in the Classroom
Turning Bloom’s Taxonomy into a Home-Language Framework
Abandoning English-Only Practices
Conclusion
18. Using Learning Games in the ELL Classroom
Research Support
What Are the Qualities of a Good Learning Game?
19. Assessing English Language Learners
Assessing ELLs: Key Principles
20. Reflective Teaching/Professional Development, by Carol Silva
The Bread in the Pond
Why Should We Have an Intentional, Formal Process for Reflecting?
Why I Began Filming Myself and Why I Continued
Adopting a Reflective Mindset
Afterword
Notes
Index
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