Academic Language/Literacy Strategies for Adolescents

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. Based on a strong professional development model the authors have been instrumental in designing Academic Language/Literacy Strategies for Adolescents addresses: motivationattributes of academic languagevocabulary: theory and practicereading skills developmentgrammar and writing.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 Grammar Handbook.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.