Academic Language Mastery

<p>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 <em>every</em> teacher’s need-to-know strategies on the four essential components of academic language.<br /><br />The subject of this volume is culture. Here Noma LeMoine makes clear once and for all how culturally and linguistically responsive pedagogy validates facilitates liberates and empowers ethnically diverse students. With this volume as your roadmap you’ll learn how to:</p><ul> <li><span>Implement instructional strategies designed to meet the  linguistic and cultural needs of ELLs and  SELs</span><span><br /> </span></li> <li><span>Use language variation as an asset in the classroom</span><span><br /> </span></li> <li><span>Recognize and honor prior knowledge home languages and cultures</span></li></ul><p>The culture and language every student brings to the classroom have vast implications for how to best structure the learning environment. This guidebook will help you get started as early as tomorrow. Better yet read all four volumes in the series as an all-in-one instructional plan for closing the achievement gap.</p>