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Education Professional Development

Instruction and Assessment of ESL Learners

Promoting Success in Your Classroom

by (author) Faye Brownlie & Catherine Feniak

Publisher
Portage & Main Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2004
Category
Professional Development
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781553790204
    Publish Date
    Jan 2004
    List Price
    $32.00

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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels

  • Age: 1 to 9
  • Grade: 1 to 9

Description

This one-of-a-kind resource offers solutions for teachers who provide exemplary instruction to students from varied cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Using real classroom experiences and current research, the authors focus on the needs of ESL learners in the regular classroom. The activities and assessment tools can be used by classroom teachers and ESL teachers working alone or together. In this book, you will find: ways to incorporate English and the home languages of the ESL students into the same lesson suggestions for informal individual and group assessments for reading, writing, and oral language ideas for welcoming new ESL students examples of criteria that can be used for the assessment of ESL students open-ended lessons and units for all learners, with accompanying reproducible masters

About the authors

Faye Brownlie has worked in staff development with teachers, co-planning and co-teaching, providing seminars, workshops and keynote presentations in Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia. She’s passionate about including and supporting all learners, and her work focuses on literacy, teaching for thinking, assessment and inclusion. She has co-authored many books for teachers, including

It’s All about Thinking in English, Social Studies and Humanities and It’s All about Thinking in Mathematics and Science. Faye believes, "We know enough, collectively, to teach all our students to read, and more importantly, to create readers who not only can read but want to read." Faye lives in Vancouver.

 

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Catherine Feniak has taught in elementary and secondary schools in Canada and in Australia. In addition to her many staff-development and curriculum-writing initiatives, Catherine co-authored Student Diversity. A Rotary International Scholar educated in England, Catherine has taught special education classes, ESL classes, regular classes, learning assistance, and has worked as a member of a collaborative resource team. She presently works as a resource teacher and an administrator for the Vancouver School District in British Columbia.

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