Kids Come in All Languages: Reading Instruction for Esl Students (Paperback)

by Karen Spangenberg-Urbschat (Author), Robert Pritchard (Author)

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Product Description
Here is an excellent resource full of practical information on teaching reading to students who are not native English speakers. Written for teachers who are working with students from diverse backgrounds and with a broad range of experiences, this comprehensive text includes background information on reading, ESL instruction, and ESL learners, as well as specific strategies that have proven effective with this student population.

From the Back Cover
This volume begins to address the pressing need facing the majority of teachers in the United States and in other countries in the English-Speaking world-how to teach children whose primary language is not English. Teachers-faced with exploding demographics, lack of knowledge about children's cultures and how languages (first or second or third, oral or written) are learned across different social contexts, lack of pedagogy to restructure the teaching of English language arts for children-need concrete ways of teaching. They also need to learn more about the social and political nature of language use, language learning, and language instruction...

"Kids Come in All Languages" fills a void with instructional practices that teachers need. It also addresses issues of cultural diversity, challenges commonly held assumptions, and marks a shift to viewing children whose primary language is not English with more respect and dignity. Supporting teachers' pedagogical change is one of the most formidable tasks facing our profession. We need more books such as this.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: International Reading Association (April 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0872073955
• ISBN-13: 978-0872073951
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #354,096 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous Resource to Inform your Teaching and Training, October 24, 2001

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This is an awesome resource for both teachers and staff developers. As a staff developer, I have used it for many trainings - articles are a good length for jigsaw activities. I wish I had known about this book when I was a teacher. Articles contain pertinent information from key people in the field of English Language Development and Bilingual Education and address an array of topics from Second Language Acquisition to the Relationship between reading and Writing to various strategies within the "ESL" repetoire - both practice and theory. While the resource was published in 1994, the information is still pertinent and valuable for teachers of English Language learners (children who are learning English as a Second Language).