How to Teach English Language Learners

This hands-on book offers teachers a much-needed resource that will help maximize learning for English Language Learners (ELLs). How to Teach English Language Learners draws on two wide-ranging teacher quality studies and profiles eight educators who have achieved exceptional results with their ELL students. Through highly readable portraits, the authors take readers into these teachers' classrooms, illustrating richly what it is they do differently that yields such great results from English learners. Because most teachers profiled work within a three-tiered Response-to-Intervention framework, the book shows how to implement RTI effectively with ELLs—from providing general reading instruction for the entire classroom to targeted interventions with struggling students. Written by noted ELL educators Diane Haager, Janette K. Klingner, and Terese Aceves, How to Teach English Language Learners is filled with inspiring success stories, teaching tips, activities, discussion questions, and reflections from these outstanding teachers.

About This Book v The Authors vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Getting Started with This Book 1 Part One: Core Instruction in the General Education Classroom (Tier 1) 1 Effective Classroom Practice in a General Education Setting 13 2 Bilingual Kindergarten Instruction in a Dual Immersion Program 35 3 Bilingual First-Grade Instruction 53 Michael Orosco and Janette K. Klinger Part Two: Supplemental Intervention for Struggling Readers (Tier 2) 4 Supporting Struggling ELL Readers 81 Part Three: Intensive Instruction for Students with Significant Learning Needs (Tier 3) 5 Special Education in a Pull-Out Setting 115 6 Special Education in an Inclusive Setting 135 Conclusion: Putting It All Together 153 Appendix A: Suggested Web Resources 167 Appendix B: Suggested Print Resources 177 References 179 Index 181