{"id":199,"date":"2009-04-11T07:15:35","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T04:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eltweekly.com\/more\/?p=199"},"modified":"2009-04-11T07:15:35","modified_gmt":"2009-04-11T04:15:35","slug":"eltweekly-issue15-book-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltweekly.humbeestudio.xyz\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"ELTWeekly Issue#15, Book of the week: Teaching Content to English Language Learners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Teaching Content to English Language Learners\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?%5Fencoding=UTF8&amp;search-type=ss&amp;index=books&amp;field-author=Jodi%20Reiss\">Jodi Reiss<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Book Description<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Teaching Content to English Language Learners, by Jodi Reiss, shows content-area teachers how to transform second-language learning theories into useful tools for ensuring the success of their ELL students. The book&#8217;s three parts present easy-to-incorporate techniques to make content more accessible, strengthen vocabulary, and increase student participation. The book offers: *practical strategies for building on common classroom techniques and activities to increase teaching effectiveness for language-learning students *techniques to recognize cultural differences, develop alternative assessments, and adapt written assignments and oral language for ELLs *abundant models, graphics, and authentic examples that show how to help students build content-area fluency as well as general language skills\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>From the Back Cover<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Teaching Content to English Language Learners<\/em>, by Jodi Reiss, shows content-area teachers how to transform second-language learning theories into useful tools for ensuring the success of their ELL students. The book&#8217;s three parts present easy-to-incorporate techniques to make content more accessible, strengthen vocabulary, and increase student participation.<\/p>\n<p>The book offers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>practical strategies for building on common classroom techniques and activities to increase teaching effectiveness for language-learning students<\/li>\n<li>techniques to recognize cultural differences, develop alternative assessments, and adapt written assignments and oral language for ELLs<\/li>\n<li>abundant models, graphics, and authentic examples that show how to help students build content-area fluency as well as general language skills<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><strong>Book Details<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Paperback:<\/strong>\u00a0144 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0Pearson ESL (November 26, 2004)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Language:<\/strong>\u00a0English<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-10:<\/strong>\u00a00131523570<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-13:<\/strong>\u00a0978-0131523579<\/li>\n<li><strong>Price:\u00a0<\/strong>$34.67<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><strong>Customer Reviews<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/pdp\/profile\/AZ6J1DKOTRE9O\/ref=cm_pdp_pop_prof_name\"><strong>Mubarak Alkhatnai<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div>This book goes along the same line of those books that tell you pre-made recipes on how to teach language. All the techniques and strategies presented don&#8217;t take the student&#8217;s perspective into concern. They are mostly teacher-oriented and may work for some situations but not for a changing climate like the language classrooms.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teaching Content to English Language Learners\u00a0 By\u00a0Jodi Reiss Book Description Teaching Content to English Language Learners, by Jodi Reiss, shows content-area teachers how to transform second-language learning theories into useful tools for ensuring the success of their ELL students. 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