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Teaching Science to English Language Learners: Building on Students’ Strengths
Edited by Ann S. Rosebery and Beth Warren
Publisher: National Science Teachers Association

Publisher’s summary:
Teaching Science to English Language Learners combines research findings with classroom vignettes and the perspectives of teachers. The chapter authors strive to support your efforts to see diversity as a resource—rather than as an obstacle—in the science classroom. Among their topics:

• Building on what students know and recognizing students’ strengths
• Teaching vocabulary for learning
• Supporting the development of academic language
• Challenges associated with learning a second language
• Types of programs for teaching English language learners
• Using students’ cultural resources

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