Yvonne S. (Suzanne) Freeman - Academic Language Mastery : Grammar and Syntax in Context download PDF, DOC, FB2
9781506337166 English 1506337163 Academic Language is the school language code that provides students with access to the curriculum. Growing numbers of students, including English Learners, speakers of non-standard English, and children from low-income families have difficulty mastering the kinds of academic language needed to succeed in school, especially if they have never been explicitly taught how to use it. Similarly, many of our nation's teachers have never been taught how to facilitate Academic Language development while simultaneously teaching academic content. Students who are unable to crack the Academic Language code are more apt to be become disengaged and, ultimately, drop out of school. The Academic Language demands of the Common Core and other, rigorous new standards are higher than ever. As states across the country struggle to implement these standards, they also have to determine how to meet the needs of ELLs and other Academic Language learners within a more rigorously and cognitively demanding set of expectations for all students. This proposed title is part of a four-book series on promoting Academic Language development for both English Learners and Standard English learners. Each of the first three volumes covers one of the essential components of Academic Language Development -- discourse, academic vocabulary, and complex syntactical and grammatical structures. A fourth volume addresses Culturally Responsive Instruction -- a key factor in promoting Academic Language acquisition. The series as a whole is designed to equip all teachers with the linguistic knowledge and skill to help students use the language associated with the academic discourse of school subjects and develop an awareness of how language modalities (speaking, listening, reading, and writing) function across different academic contexts., By now it's a given: if we're to help our ELLs and SELs access the rigorous demands of today's content standards, we must cultivate the "code" that drives school success: academic language. Look no further for assistance than this much-anticipated series from Ivannia Soto, in which she invites field authorities Jeff Zwiers, David and Yvonne Freeman, Margarita Calderon, and Noma LeMoine to share every teacher's need-to-know strategies on the four essential components of academic language. The subject of this volume is grammar and syntax. Here, David and Yvonne Freeman shatter the myth that academic language is all about vocabulary, revealing how grammar and syntax inform our students' grasp of challenging text. With this book as your roadmap, you'll learn how to: Teach grammar in the context of students' speech and writing Use strategies such as sentence frames, passives, combining simple sentences into more complex sentences, and nominalization to create more complex noun phrases Assess academic language development through a four-step process Look inside and discover the tools you need to help students master more sophisticated and complex grammatical and syntactical structures right away. Better yet, read all four volumes in the series and put in place a start-to-finish instructional plan for closing the achievement gap., This series is designed to equip all teachers with the linguistic knowledge and skills to help students use the language associated with the academic discourse of school subjects and develop an awareness of how language modalities (speaking, listening, reading, and writing) function across different academic contexts.
9781506337166 English 1506337163 Academic Language is the school language code that provides students with access to the curriculum. Growing numbers of students, including English Learners, speakers of non-standard English, and children from low-income families have difficulty mastering the kinds of academic language needed to succeed in school, especially if they have never been explicitly taught how to use it. Similarly, many of our nation's teachers have never been taught how to facilitate Academic Language development while simultaneously teaching academic content. Students who are unable to crack the Academic Language code are more apt to be become disengaged and, ultimately, drop out of school. The Academic Language demands of the Common Core and other, rigorous new standards are higher than ever. As states across the country struggle to implement these standards, they also have to determine how to meet the needs of ELLs and other Academic Language learners within a more rigorously and cognitively demanding set of expectations for all students. This proposed title is part of a four-book series on promoting Academic Language development for both English Learners and Standard English learners. Each of the first three volumes covers one of the essential components of Academic Language Development -- discourse, academic vocabulary, and complex syntactical and grammatical structures. A fourth volume addresses Culturally Responsive Instruction -- a key factor in promoting Academic Language acquisition. The series as a whole is designed to equip all teachers with the linguistic knowledge and skill to help students use the language associated with the academic discourse of school subjects and develop an awareness of how language modalities (speaking, listening, reading, and writing) function across different academic contexts., By now it's a given: if we're to help our ELLs and SELs access the rigorous demands of today's content standards, we must cultivate the "code" that drives school success: academic language. Look no further for assistance than this much-anticipated series from Ivannia Soto, in which she invites field authorities Jeff Zwiers, David and Yvonne Freeman, Margarita Calderon, and Noma LeMoine to share every teacher's need-to-know strategies on the four essential components of academic language. The subject of this volume is grammar and syntax. Here, David and Yvonne Freeman shatter the myth that academic language is all about vocabulary, revealing how grammar and syntax inform our students' grasp of challenging text. With this book as your roadmap, you'll learn how to: Teach grammar in the context of students' speech and writing Use strategies such as sentence frames, passives, combining simple sentences into more complex sentences, and nominalization to create more complex noun phrases Assess academic language development through a four-step process Look inside and discover the tools you need to help students master more sophisticated and complex grammatical and syntactical structures right away. Better yet, read all four volumes in the series and put in place a start-to-finish instructional plan for closing the achievement gap., This series is designed to equip all teachers with the linguistic knowledge and skills to help students use the language associated with the academic discourse of school subjects and develop an awareness of how language modalities (speaking, listening, reading, and writing) function across different academic contexts.