Teaching secondary Students in the Content areas is hard enough under the best of circumstances.
For each, they provide examples of Academic Language and specific strategies teachers can use as they teach Language arts, science, math, and socia.
Then the Freemans examine Academic Language at different levels: the text level, the paragraph level, the sentence level, and the word level.
They flesh out the statistics with stories of Students from different backgrounds.
It reports current research to answer key questions: Who are our older English Language Learners and Struggling readers? What is Academic language? How can middle and high school teachers Help Students develop Academic Language in the different Content areas? This comprehensive and readable text by Yvonne and David Freeman (authors of Essential Linguistics) synthesizes recent demographic data on the kinds of English Language Learners and Struggling readers who attend middle and high schools in increasing numbers.
Academic Language for English Language Learners and Struggling Readers provides the information busy secondary teachers need to work effectively with English Learners and Struggling readers.
Secondary teachers have little time to teach Academic reading and writing skills because they must cover a great deal of Content in their social studies, science, math, or Language arts classes.
Likewise, many native speakers of English find content-area classes a challenge.
Marzano Coauthor of Building Academic Vocabulary Many middle school and high school Students are recent immigrants or long-term English Language Learners who struggle with the Academic Language needed to read content-area textbooks and write papers for their classes. -Robert J.
Fortunately, the Freemans Help secondary content-area teachers provide these Students with the Academic support they very desperately need.
When Students are not well prepared academically and also lack Academic literacy skills, the challenge can seem overwhelming.
Teaching secondary Students in the Content areas is hard enough under the best of circumstances
