From the Back Cover
A unique resource for today’s ELL and Literacy courses, Teaching Learners of English in Mainstream Classrooms is designed to help K-8 classroom teachers integrate language learning into the content curriculum.
Long-awaited, this book helps teachers include and integrate English language learners into their K-8 content classrooms. Teachers learn to promote content achievement for all of their students by using the helpful strategies provided. Specifically written for content teachers in a friendly and clear writing style, Linda Levine and Mary Lou McCloskey emphasize practical application of known second language learning principles. This resource stands out from other texts on the market by offering specific strategies to teachers to accelerate the academic achievement of all their students, using techniques for developing reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills in the content areas.
Key Features:
- Each chapter begins with a teaching vignette from the classroom. Teachers will “see” examples showing how these principles and strategies for teaching English learners are integrated into daily content classroom instruction.
- Recommendations are provided to aid the development of reading and writing skills in older pre-literate learners as well as under-educated learners.
- Two integrated, multi-disciplinary content-based thematic units richly illustrate the teaching practices introduced in the book.
- The recently published TESOL/WIDA standards are referenced and applied.
- Available with MyEducationLab, a rich online resource that offers prospective teachers the opportunity to assess their knowledge, view live classroom footage, evaluate classroom artifacts, and much more!
Reviewers Are Raving!
"I loved page 33 Carousel brainstorming. A great way to incorporate listening, speaking, reading, and writing without lower level students feeling threatened."
-Mary A. Phillips, Title III Program Specialist in ESOL in Georgia
"The authors’ explanations show their broad knowledge in all aspects of teaching English learners and their comments and insights are like hidden gems..."
-Clara Lee Brown, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
To order this book WITH MyEducationLab, use either ISBN:
ISBN-13: 9780138155964
ISBN-10: 0138155968
To order this book WITHOUT MyEducationLab use either ISBN:
ISBN-13: 9780205410590
ISBN-10: 0205410596
About the Author
Dr. Linda New Levine is a consultant for public school teachers of language learning children and for programs for teaching English as a Foreign Language in both primary and secondary classrooms and holds a Masters in TESOL and a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from New York University. . She has been a teacher of English as a Second Language and a Staff Development Facilitator for the Bedford Central school district, New York. Levine was an adjunct assistant professor of ESL Methods and Materials for school-age children at Teachers College, Columbia University and has written Elementary ESL curriculum and conducted numerous workshops with ESL, EFL and mainstream teachers in the United States, Europe, Africa and Asia.
Dr. Mary Lou McCloskey, former President of TESOL, is Director of Teacher Education and Curriculum Development for Educo in Atlanta. As a consultant and author in the field of English language education, she has worked with teachers, teacher educators, and departments and ministries of education on five continents and in 35 of the 50 United States. Current projects include Teaching Tolerance through English, a project with teens and teachers in Central Europe; working as consultant to the FugeesFamily, a nonprofit group that serves school-age refugees in Atlanta, on ways to best develop literacy; and an anthology of contemporary literature for teens learning English. Author of many professional books and programs for learners, including On Our Way to English, Voices, Visions and McDougal Littell Literature. McCloskey considers her most important credential, however, her years of experience with multilingual, multicultural learners and teachers, from pre-school through postgraduate.
