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Academic Language in Diverse Classrooms: Mathematics, Grades 6–8

Promoting Content and Language Learning

By: Margo Gottlieb, Gisela Ernst-Slavit

Foreword by Judit Moschkovich

Because mastery of academic language is the key to academic success, this guide shows you how to integrate language and cultural supports with math content.

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Grade Level: 6-8
ISBN: 9781452234830
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2013
Page Count: 184
Publication date: June 14, 2013

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Help your students unlock important mathematical concepts!

If you’ve ever watched a student struggle with learning math concepts, you know that academic English can sometimes create stumbling blocks to understanding. To grasp complicated concepts, build skills, and demonstrate achievement, students need to master academic language in math.

The Common Core and ELD standards provide pathways to academic success through academic language. Using an integrated Curricular Framework, districts, schools and professional learning communities can:

Design and implement thematic units for learning
Draw from content and language standards to set targets for all students
Examine standards-centered materials for academic language
Collaborate in planning instruction and assessment within and across lessons
Consider linguistic and cultural resources of the students
Create differentiated content and language objectives
Delve deeply into instructional strategies involving academic language
Reflect on teaching and learning

Each grade-specific chapter models the types of interactions and learning experiences that help students master both math content and academic language. This essential book shows you why mastery of academic language is the key to students’ academic success.

“With growing numbers of English Language Learners in our classrooms, teachers need to be able to help students as they learn academic vocabulary and concepts. This series offers teachers a practical support, complete with abundant rubrics and detailed plans for teaching math vocabulary!”
—Renee Peoples, Teacher
Swain County Schools, Bryson City, NC

Key features

Provides a curricular framework for integrating content and academic language.
Helps teachers identify the academic language of instructional materials.
Explores how academic language can be captured in standards-referenced unit targets and lesson objectives.
Models collaboration between content teachers and language specialists.

Author(s)

Margo Gottlieb

Margo Gottlieb, Ph.D., is a staunch advocate for multilingual learners and their teachers. As co-founder and lead developer of WIDA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003, Margo has helped design and contributed to all the editions of WIDA’s English and Spanish language development standards frameworks and their derivative products. Being a bilingual teacher, facilitator, consultant, and mentor across K-20 settings, she has worked with universities, organizations, governments, states, school districts, networks, and schools in co-constructing linguistic and culturally sustainable curriculum and reconceptualizing classroom assessment policy and practice.

Margo’s passion has always been assessment in its many forms, starting with her dissertation, a K-12 multilingual test in Spanish, Lao, and English that integrated content and language. Since then, she was appointed to national and state advisory boards, served as a Fulbright Senior Scholar, and was honored by the TESOL International Association in 2016 for her significant contribution to the field. In her travels, Margo has enjoyed keynoting and presenting across the United States and in 25 countries. Having authored, co-authored, or co-edited over 100 publications, including 20 books and guides, Margo's 3^rd edition of her best-selling book, Assessing Multilingual Learners: Bridges to Empowerment, is the latest addition to her Corwin compendium.

Gisela Ernst-Slavit

Gisela Ernst-Slavit, PhD, is a Professor in the College of Education at Washington State University Vancouver. She investigates language teacher education in culturally and linguistically diverse settings using ethnographic and sociolinguistic perspectives. In addition to other publications, she is co-author of Access to Academics: Planning Instruction for K-12 Classrooms with ELLs (Pearson, 2010), From Paper to Practice: Using the TESOL’s English Language Proficiency Standards in PreK-12 Classrooms (TESOL, 2009), and TESOL PreK-12 English Language Proficiency Standards (TESOL, 2006). Dr. Ernst-Slavit, a native from Peru, has given numerous presentations in the United States and Canada as well as in Japan, Pakistan, Peru, Spain, Thailand, and The Netherlands.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Judit N. Moschkovich

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Editors

1. Academic Language: A Foundation for Academic Success in Mathematics by Margo Gottlieb and Gisela Ernst-Slavit

CCSS for Mathematics and Related Academic Language

2. Grade 6: Exploring Possibilities With Geometric Solids by Amanda Villagomez and Kerri J. Wenger

3. Grade 7: Ratios and Proportions in Everyday Life by Zandra de Araujo

4. Grade 8: Are They Similar or Congruent? by Gladis Kersaint

Glossary

Index

Reviews

“The importance of academic vocabulary is often overlooked, or educators assume that students have a solid understanding of it. This series neatly explains why it is vital and demonstrates how it is possible to focus on vocabulary instruction doesn’t take away from the conceptual lesson but actually enhances it.”

Julie Duford, Teacher
Polson Middle School, MT

“In a time of growing English Language Learners in our classrooms, teachers need to be able to apply appropriate help for students as they learn the vocabulary necessary to increase academic vocabulary and concepts. This series offers teachers a practical support, complete with abundant rubrics and detailed plans for teaching math vocabulary that can only help teachers and their students!”

Renee Peoples, Teacher
Swain County Schools, Bryson City, NC

“With the many visuals, charts, activity suggestions, and examples of student-teacher conversations this series is a real-world resource for teachers.”

Deb Bible, Literacy/Math Interventionist
Dundee Highlands Elementary School, West Dundee, IL

“Academic Language in Diverse Classrooms is an invaluable resource for all K through 8^th grade teachers, especially those working with diverse students. This book gives teachers both a clear explanation of academic language and specific strategies they can apply in their own classrooms. Throughout the book, contributors provide specific connections between the Common Core State Standards and Language Development Standards. Each chapter helps educators understand students’ academic language needs and, through a variety of classroom examples from each grade level, shows teachers how to teach academic language through content.“

Yvonne Freeman, Professor of Bilingual Education

“These volumes are packed with practical ideas that will help all teachers attend to language within their classrooms from the discourse level to word/phrase levels. This is a road map for teaching Common Core content in language rich classrooms, and hence a resource every teacher needs within arms reach! It’s all here and clearly presented; this is pure gold for everyone who teaches students to speak, listen, read and write in school, with special attention to English language learners. “

Tim Boals, Executive Director
WIDA

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