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English Learners Academic Literacy and Thinking Learning in the Challenge Zone
Author: Pauline Gibbons

For educators individually and collectively who aspire to implement a curriculum based on intellectual quality, Pauline Gibbons book provides inspiration and guidance. The wealth of classroom examples based on actual practice convincingly refutes the argument, reflected in current polices, that EL and low-income students are incapable of benefit... more »ing from an intellectually challenging, inquiry-based curriculum. Jim Cummins University of Toronto

Deep understanding, critical thinking, subject knowledge, and control of academic literacy are goals we have for all our students. The challenge for teachers is to find a way of teaching that helps everyone, including English language learners, to reach these high expectations. In English Language Learners, Academic Literacy, and Thinking, Pauline Gibbons presents an action-oriented approach that gives English learners high-level support to match our high expectations. Focusing on the middle grades of school, she shows how to plan rigorous, literacy-oriented, content-based instruction and illustrates what a high-challenge, high-support curriculum looks like in practice.

Gibbons (author of Scaffolding Language, Scaffolding Learning) presents and discusses in detail five broad areas that enable English learners to participate in high-quality learning across the curriculum:

engaging deeply with intellectual contexts

developing academic literacy

employing reading strategies and improving comprehension

gaining writing independence and learning content-area genres

using classroom talk to make sense of new concepts and as a bridge to writing.

Based on these areas she then presents guidelines on designing long-term, high-quality instruction that simultaneously provides explicit scaffolding for English learners. Gibbons makes these guidelines an instructional reality through dozens of examples of rich activities and tasks that can be used across the curriculum and that support the learning of all students.

English Language Learners, Academic Literacy, and Thinking supports teachers with doable plans for instruction, reflection questions for individual or group study together, and suggestions for further reading. The book is a valuable resource for in-service training and college courses and provides an ideal basis for a school-wide response to the growing challenges of raising the achievement of English language learners.

ISBN-13: 9780325012032
ISBN-10: 0325012032
Publication Date: 4/16/2009
Pages: 208
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Publisher: Heinemann
Book Type: Paperback
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