Classroom Instruction That Works With English Language Learners

Hill, who consults and trains teachers and administrators and was a former speech/language specialist focusing on bilingual special education, and Miller, a communications consultant for a nonprofit education research and development organization, combine language development tools with the nine strategies from the second edition of Classroom Instruction That Works (2012) to guide mainstream teachers of English learners and other students in need of language development. The strategies consist of creating the environment for learning by setting objectives and providing feedback, reinforcing effort and providing recognition, and cooperative learning; helping students develop understanding through cues, questions, and advance organizers, as well as nonlinguistic representations, summarizing and note taking, and assigning homework and providing practice; and helping students extend and apply knowledge through identifying similarities and differences and generating and testing hypotheses. They also provide background information on academic language and the stages of language acquisition. This edition adds a thinking language matrix, which aligns Bloom's taxonomy with the stages of language acquisition and allows students at all levels to engage in meaningful learning; an academic language framework for incorporating language-development objectives into content instruction; suggestions for aiding in the development of oral language that leads to improved writing; and tips for teaching and examples aligned with the Common Core State Standards and Next Generation Science Standards. Annotation c2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)