Content-Area Conversations: How to Plan Discussion-Based Lessons for Diverse Language Learners - Softcover

Fisher, Douglas; Rothenberg, Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1416607374 ISBN 13: 9781416607373

Publisher: ASCD, 2008

Synopsis

Teachers across the country are seeking ways to make their multicultural classrooms come alive with student talk about content. Content-Area Conversations: How to Plan Discussion-Based Lessons for Diverse Language Learners is a practical, hands-on guide to creating and managing environments that spur sophisticated levels of student communication, both oral and written.

About this title

About the Author:

Nancy Frey, Ph.D., a Professor at San Diego State University received the 2008 Early Career Achievement Award from the National Reading Conference. Dr. Frey has published in The Reading Teacher, English Journal, Remedial and Special Education, and Educational Leadership. She has co-authored more than fifty books on English Learners (Language Learners in the English Classroom), assessment (Checking for Understanding), writing (Scaffolded Writing Instruction), literacy (Reading for Information in Elementary School) and vocabulary (Learning Words Inside and Out). Dr. Frey teaches a variety of courses on reading instruction and literacy in content areas, classroom management, and supporting students with diverse learning needs. She also was a third grade classroom teacher.

About this edition

• Publisher: ASCD
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1416607374
• ISBN 13: 9781416607373
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 175