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Teaching Reading to English Learners, Grades 6 - 12
A Framework for Improving Achievement in the Content Areas

Second Edition (Revised Edition)


March 2018 | 200 pages | Corwin

Retool your whole school for EL achievement 

For any student, middle and high school can be challenging. But for an English learner or striving reader—and the myriad words, phrases, syntax, texts, and concepts they must negotiate on a daily basis—the stakes seem a whole lot higher. Fortunately for content-area teachers, Margarita Calderón and Shawn Slakk make available in a single resource all the best instructional and professional development combinations for expediting comprehension across the secondary grades. 

Really a tool to assist all learners across all language needs, the second edition of Teaching Reading to English Learners, Grades 6-12, provides evidence-based strategies for helping content-area teachers and schools at large: 

  • Teach academic language in all subject areas 
  • Embed discourse practice through interaction strategies 
  • Integrate basic and close reading comprehension skills into lessons 
  • Teach drafting, revising, and editing for content-specific writing  
  • Use cooperative learning to develop social emotional skills and enhance academic achievement 

Calderón and Slakk know firsthand that if we’re to counter the commonly held narrative of predictable failure among our ELs, it takes a whole school, and they have the evidence to prove it. Read Teaching Reading to English Learners, Grades 6-12, implement its strategies across all classrooms, and soon enough you, too, will maximize the comprehensions skills so critical to our ELs’ long-term success.   


 
preface
 
Acknowledgements
 
About the Authors
 
Chapter 1: Introduction: The ExC-ELL Model for Content Knowledge, Literacy, and Academic Language Integration
 
Chapter 2: Planning Lessons Using a Research-Based Design
 
Chapter 3: Vocabulary Development: Selecting for High-Impact Usage and Comprehension
 
Chapter 4: Bridging Vocabulary and Reading
 
Chapter 5: Content Reading
 
Chapter 6: After Initial Reading
 
Chapter 7: Writing Increases and Consolidates Vocabulary, Reading, and Content Learning
 
Chapter 8: Diving Deeper Into Writing
 
Chapter 9: Setting the Context for Success
 
Chapter 10: Implementing ExC-ELL: A Principal’s Perspective
 
References
 
Additional Resources
 
Index
Tarcia Gilliam-Parrish
Chapter 10: Implementing Exc-ell TM: A Principal's Perspective

“Teaching Reading to English Learners, Grades 6-12, is useful for any secondary teacher who works with English learners, but what makes it unique is its upbeat tone, high and loving expectations for all English learners, and empathy for the challenges they face. Calderónand Slakk help teachers believe in their students, which is essential to teach them. It is rare that a textbook is such a pleasure to read.”

Robert E. Slavin, Director of the Center for Research and Reform in Education at Johns Hopkins University and Institute for Effective Education at the University of York
John Hopkins University

This book helped my students to understand better how to teach reading to the ELLs special education students

Gabriel Vallee
Petro Celli College, Fairleigh Dickinson University
March 1, 2020
Key features
  • The ExCELL showed significant results for all students in participating classrooms, not just ELLs
  • Can be used with all mainstream and bilingual teachers in grades 6-12
  • Helps ELLs learn and use content-specific vocabulary and technical terms

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