Heinemann

Between worlds; access to second language acquisition, 3d ed.

This guide to teaching English language learners (ELLs) is written as a text for pre- and in-service ESL and bilingual teachers, as well as mainstream teachers, staff developers, school administrators, and others who work with ELLs. The authors, teachers of ESL and bilingual education at The University of Texas-Brownsville, identify and discuss the linguistic, social, and psychological factors that affect students who are learning academic content in their second, third, or fourth language. They also review recent research and theory on first- and second-language learning and describe best classroom practices. Numerous classroom examples and case vignettes are based on the authors' experiences. This third edition includes a new chapter on bilingual education and new material on assessment and teaching academic language. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Building powerful numeracy for middle and high school students.

The modeling of reasoning strategies on the open number line, the open array, and the ratio table allows students to solve problems in their own way and compare different strategies with the rest of the class. The lesson plans and activities in this teaching resource help students build mental pictures of additive, subtractive, multiplicative and proportional relationships that can later be applied to higher mathematics (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)