Product Description: This comprehensive research-based text provides both ESL and mainstream teachers with the background and expertise necessary to plan and implement reading programs that match the particular needs and abilities of their students. ESL (ELL) Literacy Instruction: A Guidebook for Theory and Practice, Second Edition: applies current ESL and reading research and theory to practice is designed for use by pre-service and in-service teachers at all levels from kindergarten to adult learners explains different models of literacy instruction from systematic phonics to whole language instruction and includes specific teaching methods within each model encourages teacher choice in instructional decisions and provides a systematic rationale and approach for teachers to design their own teaching programs within their own models of literacy addresses multicultural issues Changes in the Second Edition include more research based discussions and more practical teaching suggestions; updated coverage of views on reading instruction for ESL/ELL students; new section on second-language theory and research; new chapter on the importance of culture in second-language literacy contexts; and information on how published resources can be accessed on the Internet ...read more

Product Description: ESL (ELL) Literacy Instruction provides both ESL and mainstream teachers with the background and expertise necessary to plan and implement reading programs that match the particular needs and abilities of their students. Designed for use by pre-service and in-service teachers at all levels from kindergarten to adult learners, the text explains different theoretical models of literacy instruction, includes specific teaching methods within each model, and encourages teachers to develop their own teaching strategies within their own instructional models...read more

Product Description: This book is for teachers, teacher educators, school and district administrators, policy makers, and researchers who want to know about literacy, cultural diversity, and students who speak little or no English. It offers a rich picture of the incredible diversity of students who enter secondary school as immigrants—their abilities, their needs, and their aspirations...read more

Provides strategies for making instruction more culturally inclusive for learners at all levels, addressing the needs created by individual, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and economic diversity.

Product Description: Advocates for a greater cultural understanding of minority beliefs in literacy education and a more critical examination of mainstream instructional practices.The voices of teachers, parents, and students create a compelling ethnographic study that examines the debate between traditional and progressive pedagogies in literacy education and the mismatch of cross-cultural discourses between mainstream schools and Asian families...read more

Product Description: You suspect that the students in your class aren't learning much from the workbook-style exercises that form an important part of your program. But if you cast them aside, what will you do Monday morning? In The Monday Morning Guide to Comprehension, Lee Gunderson answers this question -- and many more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)