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Today English language learners arent just popping up in California, Arizona, New Mexico, or Texas. The fastest growing populations are in states and districts that have historically taught few students who dont speak English. If you teach where English language learners are a new phenomenon, you may feel underprepared to meet their needs and wonder if you can even teach them at all. You can, and English-Only Teachers in Mixed-Language Classrooms: A Survival Guide will lead you to success every step of the way. English-Only Teachers in Mixed-Language Classrooms: A Survival Guide is just that: a brief, practical primer for your first ELL experienceand a warm, comforting companion on the journey into confident teaching. Written for teachers in grades K6 with little or no expertise in second language teaching, it shows the essentials of helping nonnative speakers succeedeven when you dont speak your students home language. Joanne Yatvin explains what types of strategies build students confidence, competence, and fluency in English while helping them understand and retain vital content. She covers ESL teaching for the most crucial aspects of instruction:

  • organization and planning
  • teaching beginning English
  • reading and writing instruction
  • content-area learning
  • fostering classroom community.
Best of all, Yatvin zeroes in on smart ways to use classroom partnerships to invite English speakers and ELLs to support one anothers learning through child-to-child mentorships and peer tutoring. Sharing insight into helping ELL students adjust to their new classroom emotionally and academically while paying special attention to the importance of developing strong connections to their families, Joanne Yatvin gives you a map for navigating the uncertain terrain of your first encounter with English learners. Read English-Only Teachers in Mixed-Language Classrooms: A Survival Guide and discover that teaching second language learners is not only less scary than you might have thought, but that theres nothing quite like the satisfaction of helping children take their first steps into a new language.
About the Author:

Dr. Joanne Yatvin recently retired from a long career in public education and now teaches part-time in the Graduate School of Education at Portland State University. In addition to authoring the dissenting opinion on the NRP report, her varied education career has included teaching elementary, middle, and high school students as well as serving as an elementary principal, a district superintendent, and, beginning in November 2004, Vice President of NCTE.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780325009698
  • Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Heinemann Educational Books
  • Depth: 6
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Weight: 281 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0325009694
  • Publisher Date: 20 Mar 2007
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 236 mm
  • No of Pages: 128
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: A Survival Guide
  • Width: 187 mm

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