Teaching Reading to English Learners Grades 6 - 12

<p><strong><em>Retool your whole school for EL achievement <br /></em></strong><br />For any student middle and high school can be challenging. But for an English learner or striving reader—and the myriad words phrases syntax texts and concepts they must negotiate on a daily basis—the stakes seem a whole lot higher. Fortunately for content-area teachers Margarita Calderón and Shawn Slakk make available in a single resource all the best instructional and professional development combinations for expediting comprehension across the secondary grades. <br /><br />Really a tool to assist all learners across all language needs the second edition of <strong><em>Teaching Reading to English Learners Grades 6-12</em></strong> provides evidence-based strategies for helping content-area teachers and schools at large: </p><ul> <li>Teach academic language in all subject areas </li> <li>Embed discourse practice through interaction strategies </li> <li>Integrate basic and close reading comprehension skills into lessons </li> <li>Teach drafting revising and editing for content-specific writing  </li> <li>Use cooperative learning to develop social emotional skills and enhance academic achievement </li></ul><p>Calderón and Slakk know firsthand that if we’re to counter the commonly held narrative of predictable failure among our ELs it takes a whole school and they have the evidence to prove it. Read <em>Teaching Reading to English Learners Grades 6-12</em> implement its strategies across all classrooms and soon enough you too will maximize the comprehensions skills so critical to our ELs’ long-term success.   </p>