Teaching Content To English Language Learners: Strategies For Secondary School Success

"Teaching Content to English Language Learners," by Jodi Reiss, shows content-area teachers how to transform second-language learning theories into useful tools for ensuring the success of their ELL students. The book's three parts present easy-to-incorporate techniques to make content more accessible, strengthen vocabulary, and increase student participation.

The book offers:

• practical strategies for building on common classroom techniques and activities to increase teaching effectiveness for language-learning students
• techniques to recognize cultural differences, develop alternative assessments, and adapt written assignments and oral language for ELLs
• abundant models, graphics, and authentic examples that show how to help students build content-area fluency as well as general language skills