Reading, Writing and Learning in ESL: A Resource Book for Teaching K-12 English Learners

For current and prospective teachers, Peregoy (education, San Francisco State U.) and Boyle (education, San Jose State U.) provide a resource that contains strategies for teaching reading and writing to English learners in ESL, bilingual, and general education K-12 classrooms. They cover teaching ideas for oral language, vocabulary, reading, writing, and content areas, and discuss language acquisition theory, and classroom organization. This edition incorporates many new teaching ideas for differentiated instruction and assessment, vocabulary development, and standards-based curriculum development. It has an updated and revised chapter on effective English learner instruction, including 2006 TESOL standards and content-based instruction. It has new material on varieties of English, a new chapter on vocabulary teaching and learning, revised sections on school cultures and their impact, and new references and activities. New material has been added to each chapter, including sheltered instruction observation protocol, emergent literacy and explicit, direct instruction, working with errors in writing, promoting independent reading, and selecting appropriate reading materials and multicultural literature. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)