Cultivating Knowledge, Building Language: Literacy Instruction for English Learners in Elementary School

Cultivating Knowledge, Building Language: Literacy Instruction for English Learners in Elementary School
ISBN-10
0325062501
ISBN-13
9780325062501
Category
Education
Pages
168
Language
English
Published
2015-05-28
Publisher
Heinemann Educational Books
Authors
Nonie K. Lesaux, Julie Russ Harris

Description

In today's linguistically diverse elementary classrooms, research suggests that a universal approach to building academic vocabulary and conceptual knowledge holds huge promise for closing the opportunity gaps among English learners. In Cultivating Knowledge, Building Language, Nonie Lesaux and Julie Harris present a knowledge-based approach to literacy instruction that supports young English learners' development of academic content and vocabulary knowledge and sets them up for reading success

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