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Product Identifiers

PublisherBrookes Publishing

ISBN-101557666318

ISBN-139781557666314

eBay Product ID (ePID)2381575

Product Key Features

Number of Pages432 Pages

Publication NameVocabulary Improvement Program for English Language Learners and Their Classmates, 4th Grade

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2003

SubjectVocabulary, Multicultural Education, English As a Second Language

TypeLanguage Course

AuthorDiane August, Catherine Snow, Maria Carlo, Teresa Lively

Subject AreaForeign Language Study, Language Arts & Disciplines, Education

FormatSpiral

Dimensions

Item Length11 in

Item Width8.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2002-043688

Dewey Edition21

Number of Volumes1 vol.

Dewey Decimal428.1

SynopsisResearch studies have shown that students' vocabulary knowledge strongly correlates with their success in reading comprehension. Now teachers can give fourth, fifth, and sixth graders the crucial vocabulary practice they need with this three-volume curriculum -- proven equally effective for English-language learners (ELLs) and students whose first language is English. This program uses innovative approaches to help students build a "toolbox" of skills that let them decipher the meanings of unfamiliar words with confidence. Ideal for use in classrooms that include both English-speaking and Spanish-speaking ELLs, this curriculum combines teacher-directed instruction with cooperative group learning (proven effective for teaching heterogeneous groups of students) and individual activities for reinforcement. For each grade, teachers get an age-appropriate, 18-week curriculum that takes just 30 minutes a day. Each curriculum consists of eight regular lessons that take two weeks each and are built around a section of a story or novel, and two review lessons that take one week each and use new activities to reinforce what students have learned. All readings are reproduced in the books, so there's no need to purchase additional material. In the fourth-grade volume, teachers get a step-by-step Teacher's Guide to walk them through each lesson a range of fun and innovative activities, from peer interviews and "word webs" to old favorites like fill-in-the-blanks and sentence writing cooperative group work that pairs ELLs with native English speakers vocabulary words defined in English and Spanish to aid Spanish speakers activities that use a child's first language to bolster vocabulary and text comprehension "teacher tips" that give creative suggestions for engaging children with language photocopiable pages of in-class work, homework activities, and assessments With this proven program, both English-language learners and native English speakers will expand their knowledge of vocabulary words -- and learn how to generalize the strategies they learn when they encounter new words outside the classroom., This curriculum provides fourth-grade English-language learners (ELLs) with a "toolbox" of skills that let them decipher the meanings of unfamiliar words with confidence.

LC Classification NumberPE1449.V63 2003