Academic Language/Literacy Strategies for Adolescents

<p>Fast-paced practical and innovative this text for pre-service and in-service teachers features clear easily accessible lessons and professional development activities to improve the delivery of academic language/literacy education across the content areas in junior/middle school and high school classrooms. Numerous hands-on tools and techniques demonstrate the effectiveness of content-area instruction for students in a wide variety of school settings particularly English language learners struggling readers and other special populations of students. </p><p>Based on a strong professional development model the authors have been instrumental in designing <em>Academic Language/Literacy Strategies for Adolescents</em> addresses: </p><ul> <p> </p> <li>motivation</li> <p> </p> <li>attributes of academic language</li> <p> </p> <li>vocabulary: theory and practice</li> <p> </p> <li>reading skills development</li> <p> </p> <li>grammar and writing.</li> </ul><p>A wealth of charts graphs and lesson plans give clear examples of academic language/literacy strategies in action. The appendices – a key component of the practical applications developed in the text – include a glossary exemplary lessons that address key content areas and a <em>Grammar Handbook</em>.</p><p>In this era of increased accountability coupled with rapid demographic change and challenges to traditional curricula and pedagogical methods educators will find this book to be a great resource.</p>