Content-Area Conversations: How to Plan Discussion-Based Lessons for Diverse Language Learners

Fostering Academic Discourse Fostering discourse is the keystone of this publication.

Chapter Two looks at second language acquisition and explains why fostering discourse serves to enhance language learning. In addition, the authors provide an overview of social and academic language and how such language is developed in content areas. A well-defined and practical chart to support understanding the differences between social and academic language proficiency is included and addresses language domain, approximations, functions, cognitive demands, sentence structure, and vocabulary.

This resource is an instructional aid teachers can reference when planning activities that require both social interaction and academic discourse. Planning for Purposeful Talk This chapter is perhaps the heart of this publication. This chapter speaks to the importance of intentional planning to promote oral language among students. It is rich and replete with teacher tips for planning meaningful interactions, examples of robust questions, and ideas for building background to engage students with talk in authentic and meaningful ways. All three examples are examined through the following lens: This is a powerful model teachers can follow to begin their own practice with planning for and implementing oral language.

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Creating an Environment for Talk Talking in class will be a new experience for many students. Creating an environment that promotes oral language is essential to success with promoting purposeful talk. Add both to Cart Add both to List. Buy the selected items together This item: Ships from and sold by Amazon.

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As a first grade teacher and a candidate for a TESOL Masters, this book was an excellent resource for me in both capacities. I feel that I am now armed with new resources and specific strategies that will help me to work with a wide variety of learners. This book gives a great overview of academic discourse and goes in depth to discuss how to foster it within the classroom.

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As I head into a new school year with my young students, I am excited to build an environment in which I understand how to encourage discussion among students and how to guide academic conversations. I highly recommend this book as a resource for your professional resource library.

I needed more research on ESOL. This work on techniques and methods for ESOL students and our means to produce sustainable and meaningful talking points is sound. Mar 04, Jeni Enjaian rated it really liked it Shelves: I enjoyed this book immensely.

I found the techniques discussed within viable and applicable for a while to come. I, unfortunately, had to take a significant break in between reading the four chapter and reading the last two chapters today. When I have a chance to reread this book this summer or at a later date, I plan to update this review with increased specifics. Aug 03, Jennifer rated it really liked it. Though this book is written for K teachers, I was able to glean several useful tools from it.

Apr 28, Henry rated it it was amazing. I don't know how these people crank out good books every year. This one is very good about about encouraging TALK, the bedrock for reading and writing.

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Mar 23, Jane rated it liked it Shelves: This has some general strategies and some great advice for incorporating ELL students into discourse, but somehow lacked the helpfulness of the authors' Productive Group Work volume. Nov 12, Beth rated it liked it Shelves: Elizabeth rated it really liked it Feb 23, Stefani rated it did not like it Sep 25, Krista rated it liked it Dec 27, Sandra rated it really liked it Aug 26, Katie Eustis rated it liked it Jan 11, Chelsea rated it really liked it Oct 20,